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$228m without a metre of track, now Auckland Light Rail disestablishment to cost millions more (www.newstalkzb.co.nz)
submitted 9 months ago by absGeekNZ to c/newzealand
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Terrible both in scraping the project and how nothing has been done for a quarter billion

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[–] TagMeInSkipIGotThis 3 points 9 months ago

Yeah, its not like it was 250m of cash spend that's now gone. At least some of that would have been asset purchases, mostly land / buildings, and going through Auckland that would have cost a bunch.

Of course much easier to oppose it on the grounds of its all money completely lost, rather than assets that could be sold to recoup a bunch of that money.