I am continually amazed that in all fields of life all people have at their fingertips that greatest source of knowledge that the world has ever had and most of them ignore it.
It is not always easy to understand the information but if you DYOR enough you become much better at it and at least you are trying. So there is no excuse to make a decision just on the promises
We will have to wait and see re the East West Link, which from a legal viewpoint he has no hope of stopping apart from spending a huge amount of compensation, I believe that he will probably make a deal with the unions and then say he can't stop it
Far better to try than just read the biggest headlines and not care if they are right or wrong