A pause during the race allowed the dredge to sail.  Its work in non-stop. The port has just gone to the highest bidder and Newcastle will received some share of the funds for 'revitalisation'!  Read change to the inner city rail line.  How ever could that be the ultimate priority?
And out with any local identity, old and daggy as it is, and in with a city of universal uniformity which could be redeemed by an inventive plan of certain flair.  Vintage 2014 in regular safe mode high rise will be plonked beside Hunter Street. We equate any big building with progress.