PPP costs, schools, and avoiding Transmission Gully

PPP costs, schools, and avoiding Transmission Gully
Grant Hodges says we need to move on from the inflexible PPP models of the past. (Image: NZME)
Dileepa Fonseka
This is the second part of a two-part series of articles on public-private partnerships in education. Read the first part here.Two words linger over any debate about public-private partnerships (PPP) in infrastructure, no matter the asset: Transmission Gully.For most of its time in office, Labour could point to drama over the 27-kilometre road as the reason why it wasn’t entertaining various public-private partnership proposals.However, the drama over Transmission Gully isn’t over yet. A court case is in train, and a recently releas...

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