Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown faces criticism from a former deputy chief of staff over the proposed 7.9% rates increase, with concerns raised about transparency and whether sufficient spending cuts were made to justify the rise, particularly linked to the new City Rail Link costs.
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Yeah look I can't really comment specifically on CNL but broadly his comments around infrastructure is something that we support you know we've been arguing a long time that we need to make sure obviously the projects deliver value for money but there's a lot of things that impact on that right back from the consenting stage for example you know the Invercargill Commission talks about consenting costs being over a billion dollars a year. Right through designs, we have a tendency in New Zealand to bespoke design everything that we do, whereas actually having a catalogue of designs that we can use would be much more efficient. In effect, Erica Stanford in the Ministry of Education portfolio does cut the cost of classrooms in half.
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Alan Pollard: Civil Contractors NZ CEO on the Government's planned review of the City Rail Link's costSocial-media signal on the same topic, drawn from the social lens. Engagement is likes + 2×shares + 3×replies, the same weighting used across the digest cards. View on /social →
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