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[kruddler]

East West Link? $1.1B to not build it, then announced the western distributor which costs have blown out to the shizenhousen.

I've spoken about this before, but Dan cops a lot of flak for this....usually from Liberals or lib voters.

Looking at the timeline/history of it paints a very different picture.
Libs did the budget for it and said it would cost 4bn and pushed it through quickly right before Dan got in power.
Dan and co looked at it and said the whole project would actually cost 20bn. So he had a choice. Go ahead with someone pushed through from the opposition and deal with the expected 16bn cost overrun he had no control over
or
spend 1bn to void the contract and spend the rest of the money doing things deemed more important....eg rail crossing removal.
Now i hazard a guess that everyone on here has seen the benefit of that on our roads.

What would you have done in the same situation?