Mayor Tamihere

So it has come to this. Three years after Phil Goff’s almost uncontested election as mayor, nothing substantial has changed. Despite Goff having an undisputed mandate and a friendly prime minister and finance minister, Auckland’s public transport system is as inadequate as ever. Even on the kindest assessment, progress is glacial.

After Len Brown finally won the government’s support for the transformational City Rail Link, the focus unfathomably switched from completing a