The disestablishment of the Ministry of Transport’s work on the Auckland Light Rail project will likely cost millions of dollars spent over six months and
Terrible both in scraping the project and how nothing has been done for a quarter billion
It was a huge project, and they arent linear. The spend isn’t exactly proportional to the length of track.
That said, some of those costs definitely seem to be to route alterations and the decision to underground big parts of it to placate car drivers. They should’ve just got on with the original surface level plans and a new govt would’ve been faced with it partially built and would’ve made it far harder to just cancel.
It was a huge project, and they arent linear. The spend isn’t exactly proportional to the length of track.
That said, some of those costs definitely seem to be to route alterations and the decision to underground big parts of it to placate car drivers. They should’ve just got on with the original surface level plans and a new govt would’ve been faced with it partially built and would’ve made it far harder to just cancel.