Does National's Pipeline Add Up? w/ Greater Auckland's Matt Lowrie

  Ahead of the CRL’s much anticipated opening later this year, many people have been reflecting on how expensive it has become to produce infrastructure in New Zealand and the waste that goes into projects that are thrown out after a change in government From the ballooning costs of the Roads of National Significance(RoNS), and CRL or the money spent to develop Auckland Light Rail, Lets get wellington moving just for them to be dropped. Consensus seems to be building around the need for a long term Pipeline to plan, stagger, and build agreement across parliament for future projects if we wish to get a better bang for our buck. And now, the governments new Major Transport Projects Pipeline, seems to be motioning towards this discussion. Pundits say it is a walk back from many of the RoNS that National had comitted too after their costs became to much for the governemnt to manage. But does the MTPP really reflect the needs of the nation? Does it still hold onto some projects whose costs have far out paced its benefits? Is New Zealand prone to over ambition and underachieving? To understand the governemnts transport plan and get his perspective Wednesday Wire host Manny spoke to Director of the transport blog, Greater Auckland, Matt Lowrie.