Sell the City Rail Link People
With the Budget Committee meeting tomorrow and plenty of noise around the City Rail Link (Budget Committee Discusses THE BUDGET) it is time for public transport users, those who want to use public transport but can not (yet owing to lack of investment and choices), advocates, and those who can’t use public transport but know the need for it to help them on the road (tradies and freight drivers) to get out and SELL THE CITY RAIL LINK TO THE CITY.
The Council including Auckland Transport can only do so much in selling the City Rail Link. For the rest it is up to YOU as your peers are likely be more receptive to you doing the sell rather than politicians and bureaucrats!
Need information to help you (supplement your own user experiences and how the CRL would boost those experiences)? You can go here from Auckland Transport: https://at.govt.nz/projects-roadworks/city-rail-link/
Need help busting some of the myths? You can go here: http://transportblog.co.nz/our-analysis/myth-busting/ courtesy of Transport Blog
Need help on alternative funding ideas, and on transit systems overseas with farebox ratios over 100% (so profits)? Flick me a question in the comments box below or email at view[dot]of[dot]auckland[at]gmail[dot]com
You want the City Rail Link? Then sell it people! This is your project and your City’s future at stake here. Government and Council will be more confident in pushing the CRL early if they know people are confident via their peers doing the hard sell. So come on, you whinge about traffic most days of the week, sell the CRL as a tool to help beat that traffic.
Talking Southern Auckland 
Auckland transport…… Make tee shirts available. If every Aucklander purchased and wore an Auckland Transport tee shirt there would be a human Bill Board seen by the powers that be…. We need the CRL. We have waited long enough. It will never get any cheaper to construct than now. Build it early not later.
I would never drive to the City, spending time sitting in the car park that is the Motorway, when there is the freedom of right-of-way rail access and comfort of travel.
Cliff Dew