Auckland's train services will shut down for nearly a month in early 2026 to prepare for the City Rail Link opening, with additional closures planned during the April school holidays and ongoing testing of new routes and timetables.
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Yeah, and that's a reasonable point too. And that's precisely why we're going to do a review. And I'm also really interested in having a look at how we got some of the scope wrong from the start when it comes to urban development, because CRL is not just a transport project, right? It's actually an enabler of growth around the city for housing, for commercial development. And except we didn't really think about all of those things right at the start of the project, okay? We just thought about it as a... as a transport project and said okay let's go on and build an underground rail loop three and a half kilometres underground now that's fine that's important but we missed some opportunities along the way to really take advantage of CRL I mean if you think about it only now are we doing the level crossings along the rest of the rail network in Auckland and all of the evidence is that to really take advantage of city rail links increased passenger service trains you need to do the level crossings but we're only getting on with them now 10 years after we started building CRL. So we've, you know, frankly, the country's made some mistakes along the way and I want to make sure we don't repeat those mistakes in the future.
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