NZ Government Scraps Auckland Light Rail to Stem $14 Billion Cost Blowout

Published on January 15, 2024

The National/NZ First/ACT coalition government has made good on its promise to halt work on plans to introduce light rail to Auckland. The previous Labour government committed to building light rail, which was intended to link a light rail system between the city centre and Māngere and Auckland Airport, within four years of being elected in 2017. After six years and over $228 million (US$142 million) spent on the project, not a single metre of track has been laid and projections are showing that the original budgeted cost of $15 billion could increase to $29.2 billion. Initially proposed nearly a decade ago by Auckland Council, it was believed that work could start by 2016. But when it was elected in 2017, the Labour government took over the project....

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