Light rail to Auckland Airport

Last week, Auckland Transport an the NZTA announced that they where finally going to put a light railway to Auckland Airport. I disagree with the idea of putting light rail to the airport because we have to start all the way from scratch, while with heavy rail, we can just continue it on from there.

The Light rail network will be going through Queen Street in central Auckland(And hopefully they could finally make it pedestrian)and onto Dominion Road. There has been some discussion on where the stations would be but I think the best options will be at Valley Road, Balmoral, Mount Roskill and Hillsborough. It would then properly connect to Onehunga Train Station and continue down to the Airport going through Mangere. Here is a video showing more about where it could possibly go.

I disagree with this only because how the government is starting from scratch on this and it will properly take more time to construct. With heavy rail, it will take shorter amounts of time, it will be faster and also it is very convenient. The only big problem with putting heavy rail towards the airport is that it will cost a lot more money.But one thing the government don't really understand is that to make money, you need to spend money.