Rimu3d ago

$22 billion on just one 95km road ($232 million per km)

(everyone knows roading budgets usually blow out - the total final cost of Transmission Gully appears to be $2.5bn – double the projected cost of $1.25bn).

$22,000,000,000 on just one road? - Greater Auckland

Last year, I posted about the challenges I faced, trying to daylight public-interest information about the government’s Roads of National Significance programme. As I wrote then, The paper also suggests the government’s plan was to commit to this PPP without … Continued

Greater Auckland
Show threadphilanthropicoctopus
How much is that per centimeter?
Mar 25 at 5:26amWeb
Show threadfreshcow3d ago
$2320 per cm; or $232 per mm
Show threadphilanthropicoctopus14h ago

Thanks

That’s absolutely insane. Imagine if that was the number in the proposed plan. Would have been squashed instantly