Odd. LA's new train system is similarly annoying. One ends up taking the train to get in the area but is stuck taking a bus the rest of the way. It's arguably the hardest metro area geographically speaking to service since it doesn't just have one central downtown that's a core destination like NYC or Chicago does. There are many business cores and they're not really that close to each other. Add to that many people commute in from 3 hours away and it's a nightmare of two major train systems, more bus systems than you can count and endless traffic snafus. Ugh.

But wow for Auckland being so population dense. Impressive. Sounds cool.