What’s at stake: The City Rail Link, New Zealand’s biggest transport infrastructure project, will be handed over next November, with service expected to start on a line that will double the city’s rail network capacity. The benefits are real, but it reflects a ‘piecemeal’ approach to the country’s increasing infrastructure chasm.
Background: New Zealand faces an infrastructure deficit of as much as $1 trillion over the next three decades by some estimates, with transport and water networks being the main culprits. The fact that we haven’t spent more has to be laid at the feet of the client, and this case that’s local authority and central government.
Main players: CRL, Auckland Transport, KiwiRail, Sean Sweeney, David Rankin, Eke Panuku, Auckland Council, MRCB, Icon Construction.
Sean Sweeney has 10 days left before he jumps on a plane to Dublin and into Ireland’s most expensive underground project, the €12 billion ($21b) MetroLink project.
In so doing, he’s following the well-trodden road of leaving a major project prior to its completion.
Sweeney, chief executive of
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What’s at stake: The City Rail Link, New Zealand’s biggest transport infrastructure project, will be handed over next November, with service expected to start on a line that will double the city’s rail network capacity. The benefits are real, but it reflects a ‘piecemeal’ approach to the country’s increasing infrastructure chasm.
Background: New Zealand faces an infrastructure deficit of as much as $1 trillion over the next three decades by some estimates, with transport and water networks being the main culprits. The fact that we haven’t spent more has to be laid at the feet of the client, and this case that’s local authority and central government.
Main players: CRL, Auckland Transport, KiwiRail, Sean Sweeney, David Rankin, Eke Panuku, Auckland Council, MRCB, Icon Construction.
