$1.2 million a week on light rail consultants

The Herald reports:

Taxpayers are forking out $1.2 million a week to keep the wheels turning on the Government’s $14.6 billion light rail project in Auckland.

Auckland Light Rail (ALR) is paying about $920,000 a week to two engineering companies to plan and design the central city-to-airport light rail project and a further $310,000 to its own contractors and consultants.

They’re just burning cash!

$1.2 million a week is $30,000 an hour. So even if we assume the contractors get paid $300 an hour that means 100 contractors working 40 hours a week on a project that will end up like their cycle bridge to nowhere.