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title: The road less travelled - NZIER Insight 59
description: The announcement that central government is prepared to fund the construction of Auckland’s City Rail Link (CRL) has, once again, placed the issue of how t
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# [The road less travelled - NZIER Insight 59](https://www.nzier.org.nz/publications/the-road-less-travelled-nzier-insight-59)

 Written by [Admin](https://www.nzier.org.nz/publications/author/admin) | May 24, 2016

The announcement that central government is prepared to fund the construction of Auckland’s City Rail Link (CRL) has, once again, placed the issue of how to pay for infrastructure onto the public policy agenda.

In this Insight we consider different funding arrangements.

[View full post](https://www.nzier.org.nz/publications/the-road-less-travelled-nzier-insight-59)

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