(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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[–] [S] 9 points 7 months 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)
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