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Recommendation 10
10
Paragraph: 53
Reconsider expensive, complex Strategic Road Network enhancement projects to ensure deliverable future portfolios
Recommendation
Given the history of consistent delays to complex projects, it seems that portfolios to date have been too ambitious and have suffered from ‘optimism bias’. The Department needs to ensure that future RIS portfolios which include such projects are deliverable; it is time for the Government to reconsider its portfolio of expensive, complex SRN enhancement projects. There is a compelling case for each RIS portfolio to be smaller in scope to avoid continual deferral of projects from one road period to the next, or for the Government to dedicate more resource to ensuring that projects can be completed within a reasonable window.
Paragraph Reference:
53
Government Response
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