Chris Luxon: Prime Minister on whether the City Rail Link will boost public transport use in Auckland
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What did Prime Minister Chris Luxon say about the opening of the City Rail Link?
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon is with us. Very good morning to you. Good morning, Mike. Did you get out on the CRL this weekend? I did not get out on the CRL this weekend. In fact, it's entirely possible I will never get onto the CRL. Not that I'm against. You'd love it. No, I don't believe I would. I don't believe I would. But having having You'd be with your sanitary wipes wiping down all the handles, wouldn't you? Nobody Nobody's been able to answer me the question. Or maybe you can, I don't know. But are you expecting a Yep.
I'm not sure when the timing is, but I can tell that's the plan. Um and I I went out into the opening of it and I was out there on the weekend, didn't go on on the weekend, but I was at another station at Orake. And it was interesting, there were people coming from all over the place. There was a bunch of people doing the C R L Ale tour and uh a s a bunch of seniors doing that.
Um sorry. I mean it's all too late now 'cause we've spent the money. My fear of it is it's a weekend funsies. It's like a to who are you from Hamilton and like let's have a holiday trip. Yeah. And when it comes to shifting large numbers of people down to C
I spoke to some people actually just said like they're gonna take fifteen minutes off their commute into the city, you know. And actually I thought that was interesting. Um but but the other bit is that honestly it's a real opportunity now. Look, yep, took ten years, yeah it's probably cost more than it should have. Now we've got to make the thing work because the real opportunity, as you would know, from Sydney and Melbourne and New York and London is that when you get a bigger piece of infrastructure like that, you can actually build out apartments above and put the butt
How is the CRL expected to cut commuters’ travel time by up to fifteen minutes?
businesses and above um and it'll make it much more dynamic. So um no I think it's gonna be really good. Yeah, Christchurch in the stadium. It felt like you know, Auckland having a CRL and the link to all the hotels down there, the link to the convention centre down there.
Uh
that'll be very, very good.
Look, I m now that we've done it, I hope it works. Where's your retirement village announcement? Uh it's kind of the surprise one. It was gonna be the surprise. Where's the surprise? It's it's with Tamapotaka, but I d I know. I know you I know what you're gonna say. I heard I
heard that. But no it's coming soon. So it's it's been working its way through cabinet committees because actually all three parties have had different you know, have tried to get it. So you're stuck on you're gonna you're gonna be able to get before the No, no, no, no, it's coming. It's coming soon. Before
the election? Yeah. Before Parliament rises? It could be. I just can't tell you. I just can't remember. Okay, so so Tama Potacker last week and uh well of course I'm going back. Of course exactly. So last week you said what are we gonna do? So we ring them the very next day. They refuse to talk to us. You're such a nice guy to talk to.
Why does Luxon believe the CRL will spur new residential and commercial developments?
I don't know why they wouldn't want to tell us on the phone. Sam was ringing. He's even nicer than you. He's even nicer than you. You're either going to be held to account or you can't be. I mean they're on their dis
Well I told I told you last week the situation on the Waitanya Tribunal is Yep, we've got to look at the situation post the settlements, we get all that. We've done the review. It's got to then come through cabinet processes and obviously go through a cabinet. Why isn't it come to cabinet? It's just not going to make it before the next week and a half that we've got.
So it's so now you can reveal to me it's not going to go.
I said to you last week it's highly difficult to get dumb. And likewise Mappus is sitting with Ducey. I know he's working through cabinet papers and processes. So that's not going to come before Cabinet. It won't. We just we literally have a week and a half to go before we left for Parliament in the campaign. No no no the reviews are there. They're very they'll they'll be useful. There'll be obviously cabinet papers and cabinet decisions have to be taken on the back of it.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What did Prime Minister Chris Luxon say about the opening of the City Rail Link?
0:00–1:30
2
How is the CRL expected to cut commuters’ travel time by up to fifteen minutes?
1:30–2:31
3
Why does Luxon believe the CRL will spur new residential and commercial developments?
2:31–3:36
4
What is the timeline for the cabinet review of the CRL’s long‑term impact?
3:36–5:22
5
How does the government link immigration policy to infrastructure projects like the CRL?
5:22–7:06
6
What changes are being made to welfare (MSD) legislation and why?
7:06–9:08
7
Is the New Zealand economy performing better than expected after the fuel crisis?
9:08–10:01
8
What are the key takeaways for listeners about the CRL’s future role in Auckland?
10:01–10:08
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