Cracking open a nut with a sledgehammer
There’s a quite remarkable opinion piece in the NZ Herald today by Maungaturoto resident Danielle Williamson. I say remarkable because she actually gets close to making the Puhoi-Wellsford “holiday highway” sound like a sensible option for funding priority. Here’s the article in full:
Danielle Williamson: Highway more than holidaymakers’ getaway
The Auckland Regional Council chairman calls it a holiday highway.…
17 Comments Costing the Holiday Highway
The announcement of the Puhoi-Wellsford motorway on Wednesday detailed the cost of that road to be $1.4 billion. Here’s the relevant part of the press release:
…$1.4 billion strategic upgrade of State Highway 1 from Puhoi to Wellsford…
It would seem to me that this is the cost of the whole Puhoi-Wellsford stretch, and not just the Puhoi-Warkworth first stage.…
Holiday Highway confirmed – despite low BCR
There were some interesting announcements yesterday on the Puhoi-Wellsford “holiday highway”. While the first stage to Warkworth is being brought forward for completion within 9 years (that may sound like a long time, but at least half of that would be construction time, so the first step of construction might happen within the next four years), the second stage between Warkworth and Wellsford seems to have sensibly been pushed off into the never-never.…
Puhoi to Wellsford: BCR of 0.8
Yes, the benefit to cost ratio has come back with a negative return as demonstrated in page 8 of the NZTA project summary statement http://nzta.govt.nz/network/rons/docs/puhoi-wellsford-project-summary-statement.pdf (hat tip: LucyJH): A BCR of 0.8 meaning at a cost of $2 billion dollars it will return $1.6 billion to the NZ economy.…
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