'Too high': Traffic management costs questioned

'Too high': Traffic management costs questioned
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Oliver Lewis
A select committee has heard that road cones and other traffic management requirements can add significant extra costs to infrastructure projects.Ross Copland, the chief executive of the Infrastructure Commission, Te Waihanga, appeared before the infrastructure and transport select committee on Thursday.Green party transport spokeswoman Julie Anne Genter asked him if the commission had done work on costs associated with temporary traffic management and how it could be done both safely and affordably. “We are seeing [an] escalation in...

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