Unless deficiencies affecting thousands of Aucklanders were fixed, there wasn't much hope of getting peak time charges across the line, Chris Darby says.
The council says without sufficient funding, there will be more expensive fares, a 30 percent drop in services, and increased congestion at peak times.
The average Auckland household will pay an extra $613 in rates and water bills this year during the cost of living crisis under Mayor Wayne Brown’s propose