Queenstown's second road to nowhere - finished but closed

The QLDC has built a second "road to nowhere" as part of a $75 million budget to prepare the Lakeview site for the Australian developers of the $2 billion stalled Lakeview project.

This is in addition to the $15 million, 300 metre "pointless" upgrade of Thompson Street that Crux has discovered is part of the unfunded Arterial Road Stage 3 work. The new section of road is right next to Lakeview but leads at both ends to unimproved roading.

But this week we've been looking at the finished, but closed, extension to Isle Street that lies at the centre of the Lakeview project.

The extension of Isle Street is a ratepayer funded "road to nowhere" that runs right through the centre of the yet to be started Lakeview development. It goes nowhere else. The 17 numbered parcels of land are the "super lots" that are to be sold in stages, over 20 years, to the developer - but which could have been sold outright for $42 million.