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Old 5th March 2024, 19:53     #44165
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A mariachi ogre snorkel
 
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Originally Posted by Lightspeed
It's our political cycle. We flip between the builders and the "fiscally responsible".

I hope you don't have plans to cross the Cook Strait anytime in the next 30 years.
Truth bombs from Danylmc:

https://democracyproject.substack.co...u&open=fals e

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Last week the heads of Kiwirail appeared before the transport and infrastructure select committee where they revealed they’d spent $424 million on the project to replace the Interislander ferry and port, most of it on planning, design and project management. The project has now been cancelled because of the astonishing cost blowout. This has become a familiar story in New Zealand politics: builds vital to the national interest being cancelled after long delays and incredible costs without anything being delivered: Auckland Light Rail, Let’s Get Wellington Moving, the Lake Onslow Hydro scheme.
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