Since 2021, life has been pain for Auckland’s rail passengers. They’ve had to endure a plague of full and partial network shutdowns as KiwiRail has gone through a five-year effort to wrench the city’s train tracks into something approaching the 21st century. Rail replacement buses have become as much a part of Auckland’s identity as the Sky Tower or beach sewage overflows. Some people have given up on trains entirely. Others have taken to howling into the internet.
