The article critiques the government's $1.2 billion Roads of National Significance programme, highlighting concerns over excessive costs, political motivations, skewed regional investment, and manipulated benefit-cost ratios that undermine economic rationality and equity.
Stacked weekly counts; colour by editorial lean. Stuff and The Spinoff lean centre-left, NZ Herald centre-right, others centre.
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