A new report from the municipality's finance department, with help from an auditing firm, shows the municipality may need to pay several billion kronor if it chooses to stop the tramway construction after the autumn election. These costs include compensation, utility relocations, and state funding that needs to be repaid. The Moderate Party wants to stop the construction.
Around 2.1 billion kronor has been spent by the turn of the year. After state funding, that corresponds to a net cost of about 1.3 billion kronor up to 2026, and after that, 8.3 billion kronor remains until the tramway is finished. When future state grants are included, the remaining net cost lands at about 5.9 billion kronor.
Deviations from the total budget are explained by lower costs in the project's early stages, such as interest.