The City Rail Link is Auckland's underground rail loop connecting Britomart and the Western Line, encompassing debate over its construction cost, delivery timeline, scale, and operational efficiency.
How the framings classify across 5 articles. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.
Up to 12 framings across outlets and orientations — each a short phrase the extractor generated to characterise the piece's editorial angle (not a quote). Filter by lean to see how each bloc is spinning the story; click through to read the original.
pragmatic and evidence-based
City Rail Link finally opens: A century in the making, a fire on day onethe largest transport milestone in NZ history
\\ \\ 11 Sep 2026Chris Bishop\\ \\ **CRL opening puts Auckland on track for the future** \\ \\ CRL opening puts Auckland on track for the future Prime Minister Christopher Luxon, Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown, Ministers, Councillors and iwi have officially opened Auckland’s City\\ \\ Read moreStacked weekly counts; colour by lean. “n/a” covers government and iwi-Māori sources where lean isn't applicable.
How this topic has been named, week by week. A new alias winning out is usually a framing shift.
How the news corpus has covered this same topic over the last 12 weeks. 6 articles from RNZ, Stuff, NZ Herald, ODT, 1News, Newsroom and The Spinoff. Click through to the press view for the full panel.
Social-media signal on the same topic, drawn from the social lens. Engagement is likes + 2×shares + 3×replies, the same weighting used across the digest cards. View on /social →
Spotted something wrong on this page? Report a correction.
