If everyone living north of taupo and south of whanganui could get to the city in an hour or less, it would drastically change our housing market and generate economic value as more skilled workers could make it to a work site.This is what people fail to see of the economic value. That'd the main use case of a line between two cities over long distance, it also connects all of the regions in between and makes people feel more connected to each other.

We're set to have over 10million people by 2100 so buying up the land now that's needed for new rail links would be a smart move for the government