A discussion on the City Rail Link's escalating costs, with civil contractors advocating for better project scoping, early contractor involvement, and bipartisan long-term infrastructure planning to ensure value for money and avoid repeated cost overruns.
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I think most Kiwis would say yes. I mean, if you think about just how hard it is to do simple stuff to your house, how hard it is to build housing in this country, how long infrastructure takes and how many conditions are placed on infrastructure that does get built, you know, which is all my responsibility. I think most reasonable people would say yes. You know, we spend 1.3 billion bucks a year on consenting costs alone for infrastructure. That's basically, you know, it's the cost of transmission gully on consenting costs. It's just red tape, right? That's not actually building anything. That's just the consents. You know, it's and that's every year. So it's a nightmare for the country, and that's just in one sector alone. And I think that's sort of the flip side of the point David was making yesterday about the you know vast size of government, the number of regulators, but also the number of regulations that apply in the system.
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Alan Pollard: Civil Contractors NZ CEO on the Government's planned review of the City Rail Link's costSpotted something wrong on this page? Report a correction.
