Now, this road network, which is managed by the transport agency Waka Kotahi, is already at capacity in Auckland. There are new suburbs in the north, the west, and the south of the city, which, unfortunately, despite having existing public transport services, like buses, are limited by two-lane road connections to new subdivisions built on land zoned for medium density and high density, and, yet, there are no new roading connections to these areas in the north, the north-west, the west, and the south of Auckland. Tradies, freight, and workers commuting from home to work, dropping the kids to school, are already suffering terrible delays—sometimes an hour. An hour and 20 minutes, it took me to travel from West Auckland to Papakura on Friday afternoon, alone. What this tells us is that, despite the need for housing and our acknowledgment that we need to grow up as well as out, there is no current capacity for growth.