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’s a remarkably similar story to Wellington’s trams, or lack thereof. Strong public support for the project, promises made, and just… Nothing happened. Endless consulting, litigation, and general beaureacry, no trams, no tunnels, no bypass around the basin, nothing.
A few hundred million spent, for a handful of cycle lanes.
Some of them had a valid point, we should have been going under the basin right from the start.
Also, their proposal for a second Terrace tunnel would still have left us with only two lanes for cars, which isn’t enough for the traffic we have now, let alone thirty years in the future. And I know people will say everyone will take the bus or ride, but they just won’t.
It’s a remarkably similar story to Wellington’s trams, or lack thereof. Strong public support for the project, promises made, and just… Nothing happened. Endless consulting, litigation, and general beaureacry, no trams, no tunnels, no bypass around the basin, nothing.
A few hundred million spent, for a handful of cycle lanes.
I think you need the nail on the head, how much of the spend was on fighting the NIMBY’s. Not just in correct cost but also on delays.
Some of them had a valid point, we should have been going under the basin right from the start.
Also, their proposal for a second Terrace tunnel would still have left us with only two lanes for cars, which isn’t enough for the traffic we have now, let alone thirty years in the future. And I know people will say everyone will take the bus or ride, but they just won’t.