Northland Regional Councillor Dover Samuels says Winston Peters win in Northland may help the region tackle long-standing infrastructure shortfalls.
The New Zealand First leader left National’s Mark Osborne in the dust in Saturday’s by-election with a majority of more than 4000 votes.
Mr Samuels says it was talk of another sort of dust that resonated with Northlanders during the campaign.
He says people were moved not by the one-lane bridges that National promised to replace but by the roads that are being ripped up by logging trucks.
Dover Samuels says a call by Mr Peters to build rail links to North Port at Marsden Point so it can handle higher volumes of cargo fits in with council policy and should be acted on.
He would like to see Winston Peters working closely with the region’s two other MPs, National’s Shane Reti in Whangarei and Labour’ Kelvin Davis in Te Tai Tokerau.
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