CRL chief executive Dr Sean Sweeney said delays getting resources through Ports of Auckland and border closures made the project even more difficult, and to keep things ticking over City Rail Link Ltd needed a large number of international workers to be allowed through the border this year.
One of the big digging stages of the project is under way at the edge of the central city, near the old Mt Eden train station. Jackhammers breaking up tonnes of rock to be cleared by excavators at what will eventually become the CRL s new Mt Eden station, where the underground link meets with the western train line.