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But in September, Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency’s board approved a new cost estimate of $170m with an upper cost estimate of $205m. That’s about a quarter of what the nearby Transmission Gully was originally meant to cost, before it too blew its budget. Transport Minister Michael Wood said he was “working through” issues relating to the cost increase.
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Plans for the fast-tracked Ngāūranga to Petone cycleway from Waka Kotahi. “The nature of those projects is there’s initially some high level scoping that occurs in terms of making cost comparisons with similar projects, “You then get into the specific work looking at the geotechnical requirements, the safety requirements, the particular requirements of the route and that helps build up an indication of what the cost might be.”