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$228m without a metre of track, now Auckland Light Rail disestablishment to cost millions more
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this post was submitted on 02 Feb 2024
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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.