What you could get instead of Michael’s trams?

Michael Wood has proposed spending $14.6 billion on trams to Mangere – so around $30,000 per Auckland household. The Taxpayers’ Union has calculated what else you could spend that money on:

• Every house in Whanganui
• A second Waitematā Harbour crossing
• Four new Transmission Gully motorways
• Ten new Dunedin Hospitals
• 540 flag referenda

They also calculate the cost being:

• $608,000,000 per kilometre
• $608,000 per metre
• $6,080 per centimetre
• $7,978 for every Kiwi household from Kaitaia to the Bluff

Yes Labour are proposing something that will cost over $6,000 per centimetre – and all with your money!