We have long bemoaned the lack of a proper rapid transit plan for Auckland, one showing how the city’s rapid transit network should evolve over time to act as the core of a wider public transport network fitting of a city that will reach 2 million people within the next 10-15 years. After all, the Congestion Free Network that we [first developed in 2013](https://www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2013/07/09/auckland-transformed-the-congestion-free-network/) and then [updated in 2017](https://www.greaterauckland.org.nz/congestion-free-network-2/) is really just a rapid transit plan for Auckland that we created to fill the void of an actual official plan. \
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More recently, the implications of not having a proper rapid transit plan have become more obvious than ever – through a series of baffling decisions about how to grow Auckland’s rapid transit network.
