{"id":179939,"date":"2025-12-12T09:02:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T09:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/179939\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T09:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T09:02:09","slug":"queenstown-gondola-project-backed-by-rod-drury-receives-conditional-endorsement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/179939\/","title":{"rendered":"Queenstown gondola project backed by Rod Drury receives conditional endorsement"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An artist impression of the Queenstown Cable Car.<\/p>\n

A proposed $400 million gondola public transport system for Queenstown has received a conditional endorsement from the Infrastructure Commission, as it seeks entry into the fast-track programme. <\/p>\n

\n The Southern Infrastructure project, backed by Xero founder Rod Drury, was among the projects added to the Infrastructure Commission\u2019s endorsed Infrastructure Priorities
\n Programme (IPP) list, published this week.\n <\/p>\n

Assessed alongside Queenstown-Lakes District Council\u2019s (QLDC) roading and public transport package, both received a \u201cstage one\u201d or \u201cproblem definition\u201d endorsement, meaning the submission was considered a priority problem or opportunity for New Zealand. <\/p>\n

However, further work was required for the gondola scheme to reach the stage two endorsement initially applied for. <\/p>\n

Southern Infrastructure chief executive Ross Copland said he was \u201cnot surprised\u201d at the endorsement, given the transport problem in Queenstown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BusinessDesk 12 Dec, 2025 03:29 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[31987,34609,138,3595,2371,114705,114704,74833,34074,24572,71,114703,1702,296,1132,111,139,69,9527,3263,29056,3109,20930,19764,14901,89970,27950,6211,112],"class_list":["post-179939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-31987","tag-backed","tag-business","tag-by","tag-commission","tag-conditional","tag-drury","tag-endorsement","tag-entry","tag-fasttrack","tag-from","tag-gondola","tag-infrastructure","tag-into","tag-million","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-programme","tag-project","tag-proposed","tag-public","tag-queenstown","tag-received","tag-receives","tag-rod","tag-seeks","tag-system","tag-transport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}