Latest / The Kākā by Bernard Hickey
'Let's build a motorway costing $100 million per km, before emissions costs'
TL;DR: The top six things I’ve noted around housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa’s political economy today are:
* Transport and Energy Minister Simeon Brown is accelerating plans to spend at least $10 billion through Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) to extend State Highway One as a four-lane ‘Expressway’ from Warkworth to Whangarei by 2038, but he hasn’t included climate emissions costs in the plan or worked out the per-vehicle or per-kilometre cost for only lightly-used roads, which would be at least twice as much as Transmission Gully and three times the cost on some sections;
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