A light rail from the city to Island Bay and a new multipurpose tunnel under Mt Victoria is also being built with two lanes each for cars and public transport.
Andrew Little has said the health system is 'managing'.
It comes in response to a letter from the country's DHB warning of "critical workforce issues", calling it an "unsustainable situation" with some overloaded hospitals at "code red".
Little says his office didn't know about it as they weren't copied into it, which was sent to MBIE, and had first learned of the letter in May.
Nick Kyrgios is back in the headlines for his behaviour and not his playing.
In his first round win at Wimbledon, he called the line judge a "snitch" and spat in the direction of the crowd.
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