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)