Focus: City Rail Link fit out nears completion

[@williamhuang8309]

Keep in mind that when it opens, the CRL will have the same capacity as a 7 lane road and that's running at less than half capacity. When it's up and running at full capacity, the CRL will have the same capacity as a 15 lane road. If the trains are reconfigured to be more like metro trains, the capacity of the CRL might even pass that of a 20 lane road (though this option hasn't been considered yet). Trains have much higher capacity than a motorway.

[@Dannyvirk]

Kiwirails biggest problem is that unlike the road transport industry and big oil, kiwirail doesn't lobby ACT/National/NZ first with large cash bribes........

[@upp.social]

God Bless these incredible staff involved including this leader here. Amazing job.

[@upp.social]

The secret to the success of this is to carry the rail tunnel under the harbour some how and up to Orewa and then Welsford and a Aiport Link also. Then all this becomes an incredible catalyst for trimple Aucklands Size

[@ARDEE-ox4ms]

Now that would actually be useful.

[@cmt89497]

"Kurunga - a- huppy" 😂😂😂 she didn't even try lmao

[@jeff230394]

They shouldn't even give it those kind of names

[@bhsbass]

Whats with the name change calling Britomart Waitemata? its confusing..

[@danielle5980]

Oh she means MT EDEN station.

[@hamdog9703]

Nah mate, we're a bi-lingual county

[@gabiebachmat1811]

What's with the maori station names?,

[@hyperhansi]

No comment about Barry Potter?

[@archirome8063]

I mean sure they are working hard and all but... 2026? Asian countries do even bigger scale projects in months without affecting existing infrastructure and transports in place then does the swap over to new lines overnight including testing... man NZ is still a 3rd world country at best. Let me guess, still going to be delays once this thing opens...

[@colingander3051]

cool

[@growtocycle6992]

Why is everyone so nonchalant about everything blowing out? Budget, schedule, off plan.. Why are we always showing ourselves internationally to be hopeless?

[@babokmorrison7561]

If you can find me one infrastructure project of this magnitude that doesn't blow out and remains within the initial budget which was done pre-covid mind you I will be amazed, so no, not international hopeless as i suspect most people didn't even think we would ever do something like this.

[@theotryhard8651]

normal for any infrastructure project across most countries

[@hirinivernon5487]

❤❤❤❤🎉

[@Kiwisail]

'Nears Completion' 🤣🤣🤣...2026 is not near

[@mchparity]

I bet it is, compare to the actual completion.

[@Skybar23]

Its only 2 years....its been 4 years since covid lockdowns...that flew by quickly

[@JoBlack-dg6ey]

Don't be at all surprised if 2026 comes & goes with not a single genuine passenger passing through the tunnels

[@BigBlueMan118]

Completion of the construction and fit-out, genius. Completion of the testing program next year, operations beginning 2026.

[@dontcomply3976]

10 years F'n ridiculous Whats wrong with this country?

[@JoBlack-dg6ey]

Roll on opening day. When is it? 2030?

[@UncleK85]

I'd be shocked if it opens before 2030.

[@naisyjohns]

Finally

[@dogmannz]

I'm so fed up (along with the 80% of non-Maori in this country) with having Maori shoved down my throat. We all speak English. These 3 stations should have had the English names of their locations that everyone knows. Please ACT bring in a Treaty Of Waitangi Abolition Act so we can stop pandering to less than 18% of the people who live in this country.

[@riptyurass302]

I mean, its a government project they can do whatever they want. If the it was the government stepping in and forcing a private entity on the other hand... Anyway, people are just going to call Mount Eden station what it is, they'll call the K road station K road, Aotea Square will just be known as civic centre, ect.

[@dogmannz]

@@riptyurass302 Exactly, the same way everyone still calls Twitter Twitter.

[@adriandocherty778]

It does get a bit too complicated for some too comprehend. That’s why we have primary school and kohanga aged kids learning and speaking it genius!!😂🤣

[@JoBlack-dg6ey]

Regardless of the naming nonsense the stations will be known by the general popultion as Britomart, Aotea, Karangahape & Mt Eden

[@Shenzenxo]

Ain't gonna happen you ballheadd 😂😂

[@verboten82]

After nearly 10 years to build only 4km of track. A disgrace

[@kevin5073]

Enlighten us with you infrastructure building experience.

[@alirezanejati9712]

Go away bot

[@johnwalker6736]

For 3.2 bn.$ ,we could have had an airport link and a rapid transit system for the North Shore

[@communistgreyman2078]

Might be the only thing Labour has been successful at?

[@henkmagnetic3103]

@ communistgreyman2078. Lucky it did go through in their term in office. National been in for 4 months or so and already kick multiple projects into the gutter. Can't wait for 2nd hand Cook Strait ferries. Looking forward to more breakdowns and possibly another propeller heading to seafloor. Showing our genetic background as the English have kicked a few big projects into the gutter of late. Don't worry, tax cuts will save NZ.

[@xr6lad]

Yea right down to sending jobs to Mexico for the trains 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

[@babokmorrison7561]

@@xr6ladWhy are u so fixated on this lol the trains are probably the smallest part of the project in terms of job creation when compared with the rest of the project also they were built in Spain because we don't have the facilities to be able to build trains like these.

[@rp7784]

​@@xr6ladlol what is it with you and your issue of outsourcing manufacturing to Mexico, we've actually sourced these trains from Spain because we don't have the capabilities to manufacture narrow gauge trains.

[@JoBlack-dg6ey]

Labour didn't start this project

[@ARDEE-ox4ms]

Huge cost, short distance, small population. Can't help thinking this was not necessary expenditure

[@anxiouscomic]

more beneficial than tax cuts for billionaire landlords.

[@naisyjohns]

​@@anxiouscomicMore landlords investing in houses = more houses. Ignorant comment

[@DonaldMovies]

When this opens. It will be a game changer for Rail in Auckland. When will Auckland learn. More roads does not equal quicker travel times. Also the longer we leave rail projects, the more expensive it will be. Either we invest now, or our grandchildren invest 10 fold.

[@aleksandriakirkland4506]

The project wasn't designed to serve people in the CBD, it was designed to increase capacity across the entire network and reduce travel times to central Auckland in particular

[@rp7784]

Sydney began building their 6 Kilometre Rail City Loop when their population was just over 1 million, so Auckland's population is large enough to warrant this vital link. The huge costs are mainly down to inflation caused by recent global events, but also by NZ being inexperienced at building infrastructure projects of this calibre, not having the work practices, skill requirements, resources and processes from the get go has contributed to high prices. You also need to factor in the depth of which they bored and the soil type, those aspects also contributed to high costs. It's a short distance true, but the benefits are very fortuitous for Auckland. Opening up more access points in the CBD. Incentivising investment in high density Urban corridors. Incentivising Urban intensification along transit corridors and transport hub's. Doubling the capacity and frequency of the rail network. Increasing the number of people who have access to public transport and enhancing the rail networks accessibility. And it's also caught the eye of alot of developers who are building in the CBD, all of which would have been unlikely had the CRL not gone ahead. So the CRL is a necessary expenditure, it hasn't even finished construction yet and it already has attracted investment into the city, so it's a pretty sound project.

[@Dannyvirk]

Why hasn't National given it away, or stopped it as an 'unaffordable' luxury New Zealand can't afford......

[@DavidSmith-yi8ou]

Cause they’re not idiots like the last lot.

[@chrismckellar9350]

@@DavidSmith-yi8ou - The last lot keep the project going unlike the current lot.

[@finntactics7013]

I’m sure 24 billion dollars worth of highway is more of a luxury than fixing our damn train network / what’s left of it

[@DavidSmith-yi8ou]

@@chrismckellar9350 the last lot weren’t wanted by the majority of the NZ public for a reason.

[@xr6lad]

@@chrismckellar9350is that like the last lot cared so much about you they got Mexico to build your trains. Really a party of the working class right there.

[@xr6lad]

No one blinks an eye your trains are important from Mexico???

[@mrworldwideakl971]

so what? lots of cars and trucks in the US are made there too.

[@rp7784]

Actually Auckland train's were manufactured in Spain. Spain is a pretty large manufacturer of trains and freight vehicles, and they are one of the only countries that design trains for narrow gauge tracks which is the only type of track NZ has.

[@orsomethingorno]

International trade is a thing

[@EpicPuma]

go and look up all the locomotives of NZ on wiki, even in the days of steam we imported a large amount of them, mainly from america and the uk back then, and most of the diesels come from america, canada and USA. So no, its really not uncommon to import this sort of stuff, we probably ave the expertise in NZ to do it still, but we wouldnt be able to produce enough to be price competitive with the big builders overseas (economies of scale and all that jazz)

[@RodneyAvery-o2q]

New Zealand's domestic train requirements are not large enough to justify its' own train manufacturing industry. It's simply cheaper to buy from overseas, preferably an existing design, modified for local conditions.