Ryan Bridge: The CRL has to hit the ground running and forget its transitional timetable

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Mar 30, 2026 · 2m · transcript

As far as conditions go ahead of a grand opening, you couldn’t do much better than a petrol price spike for the City Rail Link.

Construction and testing will be finished within three months.

Then it’s handed over to operators, who need another three months.

So we can use it from September.

Trains will depart every four to five minutes under the city.

The cost? $5.5 billion. Half of that is funded by the Crown, so Gore — you’ve pitched in here.

What’s more, Wayne Brown reckons the operational costs mean what would have been a zero per cent rates increase this year will instead be seven per…