Andrew Dickens: Every city needs a stadium

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Mar 25, 2025 · 1m · transcript

So, Auckland looks like it’s doing it again: dilly dallying in decision making about big stuff.

A council advisory group has informed us that neither the fancy waterfront stadium nor an upgrade of Eden Park is considered feasible.

The full council still must vote on it on Thursday, so we’ll see if anyone has some balls.

Now by "not feasible" they mean not viable without public funding. We don’t seem to have a charitable billionaire in our midst so the dough would have to come from the public purse.

This is a question every major city wrestles with, but other cities seem to be braver.

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