NZ Politics

859 readers

5 users here now

Kia ora and welcome to the NZ Politics community!

This is a place for respectful discussions about everything that's political and kiwi

This is an inclusive space where diverse opinions are valued, but please don't be a dick

Other kiwi communities here

Banner image by Tom Ackroyd, CC-BY-SA

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

Dave@lemmy.nz

RaoulDuke@lemmy.nz

$22 billion on just one 95km road ($232 million per km) (www.greaterauckland.org.nz)

submitted 6 days ago by rimu@piefed.social to c/politics@lemmy.nz

9 comments fedilink hide all child comments

(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).

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] BaconWrappedEnigma@lemmy.nz 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Is anybody held accountable or are there any incentive structures to prevent it from happening in the future?

[–] rimu@piefed.social 2 points 6 days ago

8 months till the election. They haven't started work on this yet so it'll probably come to nothing if they lose.