It’s not explicitly said in the article, but the ships will be sister ships, from my understanding, and will be replacing the entire fleet.
Also, the original vessels were $550 mil for the pair, no way is the cancellation cost more than that.
I think the major cost saving is having smaller ships means less port side infrastructure, so even if we do upgrade the port to modern standards, it will still be cheaper.
My understanding is we’re buying two ships, which will be identical.
Also, forty rail cars is a lot, each one is equivalent to a fully loaded truck at least.
One person’s trash policy is not another’s treasure, sometimes it’s simply a failure.
The issue with that suggestion is, it takes much less time to throw out what the last government was doing than to actually do something yourself.
The best way to stop “rip and replace” is to stop fucking up, in my view. The ferry project is a classic example, set to be over a billion dollars over budget, and the boats are only 550 mil each, and the boats were absolute monsters, far bigger than we needed.
Three waters is another example, if Labour had dropped the co-governance aspect, the project would likely have gone ahead without too much controversy, but they pushed ahead with a wildly unpopular proposal, and it was a big part of why they lost the election.
Yep. The Hutt Valley hasn’t been too bad, but I really feel for people in Wellington City.
Oh, definitely not.
Me too actually, it’s all very confusing.
It’s good to know Wellington isn’t the only region whose infrastructure is a total shitshow.
Definitely underfunded, overworked, and probably mentally clocked out.
The German government has actually offered to help with the investigation and cleanup, although I don’t have a source to hand for that.
So yes, they have actually offered to help.
Consider that this was written by a journalist, who are often not that bright, what I suspect happened is aftermarket rims were fitted to the vehicle, and didn’t fit.
Either way, it would have been the entire wheel most likely.
The owner of that vehicle has clearly made a lot of bad decisions lately.
I wonder if it’s as simple as forgetting to torque the lug nuts, or was the wrong type of rim fitted to the vehicle?
I very much doubt they will propose having less privileges than another group though, it will almost certainly be more privileges for us than them.
two sets of laws, where they set their own for Māori?
No way will that ever be allowed to happen.
Yeah, it had ballooned to more than double their initial estimate, quite frankly, I don’t trust Labour’s numbers on any of this.