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the issue in auckland is reliability and cost, its very expensive to use public transport and thats when it runs
Youtubers really needs to disintegrate advertising with the actual content… it's honestly worrying how we can skipped ads before and now people are being force fed with ads that are integrated into the video itself.
Watching this while Auckland floods
Hmmmm I guess these floods will change a lot of opinions on this.
This is New Zealand – it'll be not fit for purpose/broken within a year of opening. NZ builds everything to the cheapest common denominator and poorly. Very few real tarmac roads, mostly chipseal. Every major roading build has had to be resurfaced/redone extremely quickly. Dome Valley was one of the few recent road rebuilds that was properly tarmaced – the surface came off within days and every car on it had tarmac stuck to their tyres/cars. Cost them a fortune in compensation. The excuse for the diabolical road quality? "It rained" after they laid the tarmac. Rail everywhere else is almost non-existent. The political will to fund any further rail around Auckland is quickly evaporating – the new mayor doesn't want it (and had a reasonably majority on exactly this issue), govt is making big noises about cutting back on expenditure – i.e. Auckland rail. If National win next election they're never going to spend any public money on things like rail. High likelihood it will be built so poorly that the first earthquakes will destroy it anyway. NZ – earthquakes, anyone? Not a sensible place to build tunnels.
Auckland is still flooding with water
why does every anglo city in the world have shit public transit?
Unfortunately I don't have much hope of this improving matters, our (Auckland's) public transport system is terrible on the whole. Consistent changes to the schedules, random changes to the rail lines (Onehunga to city no longer offered), constant weekend rail line closures, just rubbish. Having lived in Sydney for many years (great coverage and mostly good for schedules, but regular rail interruptions), and spending plenty of time in Tokyo (phenomenal on all counts), we're so far from either of these its not funny. Just rubbish. I really hope it changes soon.
The lines themselves are bumpy as hell too, though the fault is likely with the type of soil Auckland is built on, the same issues arise with the roading.
Used to live very close to the Mt Eden end of the project. Huge trucks using both lanes of the road in the middle of the night made me move houses due to the sleep disruption. Honestly? I still question the point of this project. It's great that there will be a new connection to britomart, but just about all the public transport that goes through Mt Eden station ALREADY ends up in Britomart anyway. Plus there is 0 space for any parking, and the station is terribly connected by road so it's not like drivers can park there and catch the train into CBD.
Don't get me wrong, there's a huge problem in auckland in terms of traffic, and public transport is definitely one of the ways of solving it… However, currently public transport is awful, and I don't see this project changing it, or helping it in any significant way.
this "art" shown here is disgusting.. those who buy it have no taste in real art
the rail link is more art than those awful drawings
this plandamic …
Aucklander, Hawaii has you beat. we have a new rail 20 miles long, cost about 17 billion, and maybe 17 years to build and not finish yet (2023).Our rail will not make any money and we will never pay off our loan.
Theres no reason to use a car over the trains… its only problem is that the trains are down for repairs almost more time than its not down for repairs
Wish they would drill a tunnel to connect the two islands I plan to skip out of Auckland to Christchurch way less people down there public transport has a huge lack of workers to I prefer my car
80hours in traffic a year equates to 1.5h a week which is sweet bugger all. Always expect the news channels to conflate things no matter which country, they need a headline
1.7 million now
Dame Whina Cooper is a Māori name, so "Wh" is pronounced "F." But anyway good video! 🙂
As a kiwi I agree, however our authorities can't even manage our outdated current infrastructure as it is. Who's going to pay for it? Are Aucklanders really going use it and give up their cars? Sorry but have to ask the hard realistic questions.
the subway gonna be an aquarium
I wonder how the CRL will affect travel times for North Aucklanders because there aren't any developments going across the bridge or Northern Motorway. Especially since there are newer housing developments happening all across the North Shore and further up in Hibiscus Coast. I will say that the Northern Express busses are awesome but how long will it be before we need more developments and changes then? And what is the cost?
As an Aucklander, I do have some doubts about this one. It's been going on for years now, and the construction has played havoc with the CBD in the meantime. And for a 3 billion dollar project, it only goes to another inner-suburb station that is already serviced by a rail line from the CBD. It doesn't do much about the main issue this video brought up – getting people in from the suburbs, which are still painfully under-serviced by trains. Granted, it might give some quick access right into places in the inner city, but that doesn't help much if there's nowhere you can go from there. The entire northern side of the city, across the harbour, lacks any train connections at all (there are ferries that go straight to the CBD, and one very overworked bridge). I can't help but feel the money might have been better spent on above-ground rail lines to link up the suburbs, but I'm not exactly an expert. Still, it does give us room to expand in the future, so there is that.
This sounds great, but it is pigshit on a blanket. You all are worried about this. First, you have to upgrade the system to all of Auckland, not just main centers. Over 45 percent of Auckland DOES NOT have a transport system that works regularly, if at all. I know at least 20 percent of the Auckland area that has no public or workable public transport.Have transport running 24/7 not just from 5 till 8. In some cases, 7 till 5. Make sure you can get to one end of Auckland to another and back in a day, which is impossible to do right now. Nope nothing in Auckland will change unless you live in the main centre's, the system will remain crap for over 40 percent of Aucklanders. Waste if money both tax payers and rate payers.
Its all about auckland . Why dont the whole north island bring back the passenger trains
The businesses in the CBD certainly aren’t behind it, but the CBD is dying a slow death anyway, it’s just a shithole because of the great unwashed.
Singapore crl =cross island line
Its so sad to see the glaciers retreating so far up the valleys now days 🙁
Cop… Can you ladies get your gumboots off the seat… It's a new train.
Great vid
Love these videos
we need more highway for east auckland… only 1 and its always traffic jam cause too many car on it… and then AT think its really good idea to make all the main road to 50 .. like legit really great idea
Nice vid. Well, put together. A minor point, Aotea is pronounced with 3 syllables, as Ay-oh-tear. Tear as in crying tears. Karangahape as in Karangahape Road is for the expects, the locals. It's Ka-rang-a-happy
I wonder how badly the recent epic flooding affected this project
No one goes to Auckland city center anymore. Bit off a waste of money in my view.
Well it's mostly so the increasingly communist government can start stealing more money from its citizens and enrich themselves while fronting a "solution"….but hey, ground train.
When are they going to finish the transatlantic tunnel?
This is a very silly idea…. for 5% of the cost they could give everyone an ebike.
can some other city get something for a change?
Yoooo
Now they need to take that TBM and point it elsewhere to expand the rail network, which actually only services a small portion of the city in reality.
This won't help.
There are railways within
There are railways without
As an Aucklander we do have many challenges like other cities, but we do have potential in our major city place in New Zealand. And yes we really do need this underground railway system because traffic is atrocious
the trouble i have with this video as an Aucklander, its made by a British bloke and they interview a British bloke about our traffic, why would you not interview an aucklander whos been here for the good part off 40 or 50 years?
Haha, you clearly haven't been to Auckland recently have you? The entire CRL Project is rapidly turning into a (literal & figurative) money hole and white elephant. There is no end in sight for the Super City (Auckland) Council, and the inner city has literally turned into and endless mass of roadworks and construction roadblocks that have strangled the life out of the city center.
And NO, this is NOT due to any "Pandemic", this dog's breakfast masquerading as a "transport modernization project", actually had its seeds planted years before (roughly between 2009-2011), one project led to the next, and contractual talks broke down, all the while bureaucrats (both council and private) conspired to turn this into their own cash cow.
What should have cost $2.5-3.5B will realistically look to balloon out to something approaching $10 billion… and even that may be conservative!
Yes, so mission accomplished, Inner City Auckland is a cultural, commercial and retail desert, and in place of cattle skulls, there's instead a sorry, tragic array of empty retail and commercial buildings occupied solely by the forlorn ghosts of a far more joyful, alive and boisterous city.
Feel free to update your video to include ALL THE FACTS as i've (all but) itemized here for your perusal.
Ya dreamin' mate. The loony Labour/Green government have created the traffic congestion to sell this BS Railway that no one will use,
Earth quakes are the main problem for this build.
Same here in the philippines, after decades of planning to create a subway in the early 1960s were finally having one in 2024.
lived in auckland NZ most of my life ( and still do ). "most livable city" haha.. if you're rich sure, house prices are ridiculous, rentals are ridiculous. so you have to live far from work. even with heavy traffic you are still faster on a private car. even with fuel prices being also, ridiculous, most people would rather pay more for transport and get around quicker rather than spending and extra hour in public transport. also, now working from home is getting more common this will likely go to waste. 3 Billion dollars that coudve gone to sorting out some of NZs real problems. smh.