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$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

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(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).

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[–] rimu@piefed.social 7 points 6 days ago

In the article they came up with a few other things 22B would buy:

four City Rail Links ($5.5b)
seven fully equipped Dunedin hospitals ($3b)
seven Cook Strait ferry terminals ($3b)
99 contract-cancellations for no Cook Strait Ferries ($222m)
fully funded 7kwh solar panel and battery systems for all 700,000 dwellings in Auckland and Northland ($21b)
169 times the annual walking and cycling budget in the 2024 GPS ($130m)
Enough funding to run the Te Huia train between Auckland and Hamilton for 3780 years…
… or, how about free passenger rail across the whole country for effectively forever?
four and a half Northwest Busways ($5b)
seven Airport to Botany Busways ($3b)
22 twice-built International Convention Centres ($1b)