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Timothy Welch, Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau

How to end the wasteful boom-bust cycle driving NZ’s infrastructure gap: new report

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Debates about infrastructure often turn around money – with good reason. It’s estimated New Zealand’s infrastructure deficit – the amount we would need to spend to modernise, upgrade and build what we need today – is more than NZ$100 billion.

And this will double by 2030 if we don’t significantly increase spending now to avoid the even higher cost of falling further behind and having to catch up.

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