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# Folly of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/folly-of-the-day/
- Published: 2023-04-15T18:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2023-04-15T08:30:51.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-16 22:34

> Auckland Light Rail (ALR) is paying about $920,000 a week to two engineering companies to plan and design the central city-to-airport light rail project and a further $310,000 to its own contractors and consultants.  
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> The figures came from Transport Minister Michael Wood in response to a written Parliamentary question from National’s transport spokesman Simeon Brown.  
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> The Government has already spent $50m with about 200 different firms, including five big law firms and competing consultancies \[…\]  
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> “Instead of delivering light rail, Labour is now spending over $1.2m a week of taxpayers’ money on consultants working on more reports trying to justify a project which could cost up to $30b \[twice the official estimate\], which the Treasury has highlighted as a risk of further cost increases,” Brown said. \[…\]  
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> Brown said the money being spent on consultants for light rail should be used to help rebuild the roads washed away by Cyclone Gabrielle.  
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> [*NZ Herald*](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland-light-rail-taxpayers-forking-out-12-million-a-week/VMVIQETIURB2FKKWEPXI7HLH4A/?ref=goodoil.news)

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