Strypey<p>When news media are reporting budget figures for public infrastructure projects, they tend to just quote them verbatim. But it might lead to a more informed public debate on infrastructure, if they reported the costs as per-year estimates. In other words, take the budgeted cost of building or buying something, divide by the number of years it's projected to last, and report it as '$N per year, over P years'.</p><p>(1/?)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/NZPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NZPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/PublicSpending" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PublicSpending</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/infrastructure" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>infrastructure</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/NewsMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NewsMedia</span></a></p>