Infrastructure priority list a 'gamechanger'

Infrastructure priority list a 'gamechanger'
Infrastructure minister Megan Woods is talking up the potential of an infrastructure priority list. (Image: Getty)
Oliver Lewis
A piece of work to standardise how infrastructure projects are assessed and prioritise what gets built could be a gamechanger, the infrastructure minister believes.Megan Woods made the comment at Building Nations, a conference organised by sector group Infrastructure New Zealand (INZ) and held in Christchurch on Wednesday.Amongst all the talk of strategies and pipelines, there was a palpable sense of frustration from several speakers who felt that NZ was talking too much, but building too little, when it came to infrastructure.“We are wor...

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