The benefit of the Southern Links project is to ‘enable good long-term planning to be carried out for the city’ (Southern Links website). The project is planned to be staged and is not expected to be finished until the 2040s (*p.236). In the 2013 report* the Benefit / Cost Ratio (BCR) for the Hamilton Southern Links Preferred Option was calculated at 2.0. (*p.212, 227, 230), or somewhere between 1.6 and 3.5 (*p.230, 231), or 1.8 (*p.254). Whichever calculation is used, in 2013 it had been determined that investment would produce a return.
Southern Links progress and Ohaupo Rd counts
Southern Links progress and Ohaupo Rd counts
Southern Links progress and Ohaupo Rd counts
The benefit of the Southern Links project is to ‘enable good long-term planning to be carried out for the city’ (Southern Links website). The project is planned to be staged and is not expected to be finished until the 2040s (*p.236). In the 2013 report* the Benefit / Cost Ratio (BCR) for the Hamilton Southern Links Preferred Option was calculated at 2.0. (*p.212, 227, 230), or somewhere between 1.6 and 3.5 (*p.230, 231), or 1.8 (*p.254). Whichever calculation is used, in 2013 it had been determined that investment would produce a return.