City Rail Link report shows NZ needs to call in the experts for its megaprojects

City Rail Link report shows NZ needs to call in the experts for its megaprojects
The Auckland floods are one of a series of problems to hit City Rail Link (Image: CRL)
Dileepa Fonseka
Today marks a month since the first section of Montreal’s new 67 kilometre light metro system opened, in New Zealand it has been four days since the release of another report investigating delays and blow-outs at an infrastructure project, this time Auckland’s 3.45km City Rail Link. Construction on both projects started in the same year, 2018. Montreal’s light metro system includes the demolition of a centuries-old tunnel and the construction of the third-longest tunnel built in Canada and the builders had to grapple...

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