The government’s mega-roads programme is now looking to cost an astonishing $40-50 billion, based on new documents released yesterday by the NZTA.On Monday, Transport Minister Chris Bishop touted the fact that $1.2 billion would be spent towards funding for design, consenting and property acquisition for six of the projects
Entirely absent is any assessment of an alternative of more public transport/regional passenger rail/rail freight and the potential of impact of that on the car loading of existing roads; and of climate change/breaching at least 6 of 9 essential global biophysical thresholds/planetary resource overshoot.
It's interesting how they have eased the BCR calculations on these sooooo much while at the same time the BCR modelling on the NTS is unchanged and makes it look worse (although even at 1.4, it still beats the Double Tunnel project
Entirely absent is any assessment of an alternative of more public transport/regional passenger rail/rail freight and the potential of impact of that on the car loading of existing roads; and of climate change/breaching at least 6 of 9 essential global biophysical thresholds/planetary resource overshoot.
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It's interesting how they have eased the BCR calculations on these sooooo much while at the same time the BCR modelling on the NTS is unchanged and makes it look worse (although even at 1.4, it still beats the Double Tunnel project
So, why? Why? Why?
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