Waka Kotahi transport agency is only one year into its current National Land Transport Programme (NLTP), Newsroom reports, but amid more frequent and damaging weather events it’s already spent 80% of its three-year funding allocation to repair local roads. Events including recent flooding and slips in Wellington, Nelson and Marlborough and the West Coast are still to be added to the bill.

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