Cost blowouts as Queenstown bypass hits $108m

Cost blowouts as Queenstown bypass hits $108m
Ballooning costs: the proposed new Melbourne/Henry St upgrade. (Image: QLDC)
Brent Melville
Queenstown-Lakes councillors have agreed to top up funding by $20.6 million to get the town's arterial "stage one" project completed, with more cost blowouts on the horizon.The Queenstown Lakes District Council (QLDC) has signalled the CBD bypass through Henry and Melbourne Streets could breach its new $108.8m estimate, already more than double the $49.5m price-tag scoped under the original 2021-31 10-year plan. Upgraded costs, put at $88.2m, were agreed by the council in October 2021, but those had since tracked up as a result of...

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