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Those in charge of the country's most expensive transport infrastructure are confident the new timetable for opening will stick - but they won't name a date.

Auckland's $5.5 billion City Rail Link has to undergo thousands of tests including crowd emergency evacuations before it can open in the second half of next year.

Today The Detail goes to the deepest point of the new project inside Karanga-a-Hape station for a glimpse of the country's longest escalator, and the tracks running more than three kilometres under the city, connecting the two brand new stations (Karanga-a-Hape and Te Waihorotiu) and two extensively

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