Crafting a menu of infrastructure projects

Crafting a menu of infrastructure projects
Congestion in Auckland is an example of the kind of priority problem the Infrastructure Priorities Programme may include. (Image: Getty)
Oliver Lewis
It’s been called a menu.To keep the analogy going, the Infrastructure Commission, Te Waihanga, is currently in the kitchen sifting through recipe submissions to create a vetted list of priority infrastructure projects and problems.The idea behind the Infrastructure Priorities Programme (IPP), said Geoff Cooper, the chief executive of the commission, is to give decision-makers a menu of verified proposals that have been assessed for strategic alignment, value for money and deliverability: can you actually build it?“The way I’ve...

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