Businesses around the City Rail Link expect little if anything from a proposed hardship fund to make up losses they've incurred being surrounded by a construction site.
Ongoing disruption from the work which started in 2015, is reaching boiling point.
After years of not budging, Auckland Mayor Phil Goff has proposed to Transport Minister Phil Twyford an "extreme hardship fund".
But both warn that no one has ever received government compensation for lost revenue due to public construction.
Jordan Bond reports.
