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Four-lane Auckland-Whangārei highway could cost 10 percent of government infrastructure budget (www.rnz.co.nz)
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"Is this one motorway really worth one-tenth of our entire country's spending on schools, hospitals, houses and public transport infrastructure?"

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

10% for the next 25 years is an insane amount of money, and no way will it be cost effective.

We have a habit in NZ of completely over-speccing projects, then either cancelling them or never proceeding in the first place. It's what we did with the ferries, it's what we did with that idiotic cycle bridge idea, the Petone-Grenada road... And now this. Which will get binned the moment a Labour coalition takes over.

The spec for the Petone-Grenada road initially called for it to be 100 km/h end to end, which is completely over the top considering the terrain the road would traverse.

At least the Melling Link project seems to be moving.