Auckland Light Rail is finally dead.
The National-led Government has killed off the scheme first proposed by Labour on the 2017 campaign trail. Millions were spent on the project, which went through multiple iterations but never quite managed to get on track.
The failure of the project has raised questions about how our Government’s approach to infrastructure will work, and why these schemes are so expensive and difficult to get off the ground.
Today on The Front Page, NZ Herald senior writer Simon Wilson joins us to discuss why we need to rethink our approach.
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