For many sitting in Auckland's traffic, a solution and an end to the congestion seems nowhere in sight.
The Government and council are working on big infrastructure projects - but the question on everyone's mind is when will they be ready?
As dawn breaks across the Waitemata Harbour, Aucklanders settle into their morning routine, bumper to bumper, for the slow crawl into work.
But on Friday, Transport Minister Michael Wood was at the Waitemata Harbour - because every little bit helps.
"This is about finally giving our city the linked-up public transport network that it has been crying out for, for 50 years."
Grand words for 5km of infrastructure, but Michael Wood is celebrating each little win.
On Friday it was the completion of the Northern Busway extension, which better connects Albany to Constellation Drive.
"Up until today, the buses have been in general traffic and been caught up in general motorway congestion," Auckland Transport's Anthony Blom told Newshub.
The upgrade cost $313 million and runs alongside the Northern Motorway. The hope is it'll coax people out of their cars and into buses, cutting carbon pollution.
"We have to do things differently and break the back of car dependency for every journey," Michael Wood said.
Wood was then off to celebrate the naming and design of four City Rail Link stations: Maungawhau in Mt Eden, Karana a Hape at the top of Queen Street, Te Wai Horotiu at Aotea Square and Waitemata at Britomart.
"The names allude to the mythology, people and important landscapes of the relevant station areas," said Paora Puro from Mana Whenua's Forum.
The designs of what the stations will look like hang in stark contrast to the worksite. COVID-19 has taken its toll here.
The project is meant to be completed by the end of 2024 and they don't yet know how COVID has impacted that timeline.
City Rail Link CEO Sean Sweeney said hundreds of workers have been off due to the pandemic.
"350 on the site were off at any one time; they all came back to work, then our steel fixing yard went down with omicron; then the steelyard were back on stream, then the concrete trucks went offline."
And it's not just staffing issues, it's the ballooning cost of raw materials - there's still no word on how much the $4.4 billion project has increased by.
Costs and delays aside, the Transport Minister said the supercity needs better commute options.
"We're getting on with that work now - there's no time to wait."
