Roading blowouts: a political football

Roading blowouts: a political football
Nick Leggett and Steven Joyce have views on how roading works (Image: NZME)
Dileepa Fonseka
In part one of Roading Blowouts, Dileepa Fonseka explored the material supply issues that contribute to roading construction delays. Infrastructure New Zealand chief executive Nick Leggett believes one of the biggest factors behind cost blowouts on roading projects lies with how we plan."We poorly time our infrastructure builds because we don't have an adequate pipeline of work," he says. “What happens is you assemble skilled seasonal workers for a big project, and then once that project is over, there's o...

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