Add up the cost of the two new proposed tunnels in Wellington, fixing its water supplies, fixing Wellington's port and ferry facilities, building endless lightly-used bicycle pathways, reinforcing Wellington's buildings that can never be reinforced sufficiently to deal with the kind of earthquake that can easily be generated by the fault-line they sit right on top of, building an "international convention center" that will never hold much in the way of international conventions since Wellington doesn't have a proper international airport, and you get a figure of way over $10 billion. Is it being funded by Wellington rate payers? You must be kidding - their Council's debt is exploding, and the Transport Minister is already saying his new tunnels will be paid for out of general taxation. Wellington will probably be bailed in a few years, just like defaulting Detroit, another failing city, this time in the US.
