Council gets maths wrong over cycleway costings
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The New Plymouth District Council has had to eat humble pie at the beginning of three days of submissions on its controversial cycleway plans.
It got its maths wrong and rather than costing $17 million, the three proposed routes tally up to more than $35 million.
Our Taranaki Whanganui reporter Robin Martin was at the hearing.