Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown defends his annual $235 million operating cost calculation for the City Rail Link as scepticism arises.
He told Heather du Plessis-Allan, "most of when you pay your rates, is paying things off. They're not free.
"It's not free to have a road. It's not free to have a train. It's not free to have a bus."
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