Larry Williams Drive

If you hate cycleways, you’re probably going to hate them a whole lot more when I finish telling you about the latest instalment in this.Turns out cycleways are getting really expensive. The country’s cycleway building programme is blowing out big time.Waka Kotahi has set aside $618 million to spend on cycleways over the next three years, but the budget has blown out already to $670 million, which is an overspend of 10 percent.Why? In some cases, because of dumb mistakes.The Petone cycleway seems to be a case of dumb and dumber where mistakes like an administration error of $1 million and forgetting to talk to KiwiRail to plan the route has made it quadruple in price. It should’ve cost $17 million, now it’s $65 million.That works out at $21.7 million per km. That is miles too expensive.That is not the first time this has happened, but all of these cycleways are too expensive per kilometre.The cycleway in Grey Lynn cost $10 million and barely anyone uses it.Auckland Transport is going to spend $144 million on