AT are putting on a few PT services so that people can reach the ANZAC day dawn ceremony. The good news is that for the first time that includes being able to catch a train there (plus a little bit of a walk). The details are on AT’s website. The dawn service starts at 6am.
Bus
- A Saturday timetable will be in place for all bus services with additional Inner LINK and Northern Express services provided for the ANZAC Day Dawn service from 4:30am
- Inner LINK buses will operate approximately every 15 minutes (clockwise and anti-clockwise) from 4.45am to 6.30am. From 6.30am the services will operate to the normal Saturday timetable. These services operate to Auckland Museum in the Domain, linking Newmarket with additional rail services and Britomart for Northern Express and rail.
- Additional Northern Express services will operate from Albany to Britomart at 4.30am, 5.00, 5.30 and 6.00. The normal Saturday timetable resumes from 6.30am.
- If you have a Veteran’s SuperGold card, SuperGold card or RSA membership you can travel free all day on any Metrolink, Waka Pacific, North Star, GO WEST or any LINK bus.
Train
- One additional early morning train per line to Newmarket from:
- Swanson departing 4:15
- Papakura departing 4:07
- Manukau departing 4:05 (travels direct to Newmarket)
- Onehunga departing 4:15
- Britomart departing 4:50
- All timed to arrive at Newmarket before 5:00am.
- Western Line train services travel to Grafton station on Park Rd, which is a 10-15 minute walk to the Auckland Domain. For Southern/Eastern Line services the closest station to the Auckland Domain is the Newmarket station, which is a 15-20 minute walk to the Domain but remember you can take an Inner LINK bus from Newmarket or Britomart to the Domain.
Ferry
- A normal Saturday timetable will be in place for ferry services. Travel on all train and ferry services is free for SuperGold cardholders all day.
For full details of public transport on the day: https://at.govt.nz/about-us/campaigns/anzac-day/ and for more information about the Dawn Service: http://www.aucklandmuseum.com/whats-on/war-memorial/anzac-day-commemorations
There will however be disruptions to some services later in the day for the various parades around the region and the details of those are here.
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Good to see.
A wonderful start.
Did I hear a mention of Bike valet parking as well or was I dreaming?
Wellington’s train services start at 3am on Anzac Day, and they’ve got free bus shuttles from the Railway Station to the National War Memorial.
3am is a bit early, Auckland’s 4am departures may have more passengers
Good to see but hope that in future AT will be able to do event timetables across the board instead of just selected ones.
Are they restricting Grafton bridge to PT and active from say 5am? Given there is car parking being provided in the Domain I suspect there will be a few traffic issues in the area.
Good but not good enough.
Previous years experience is buses get stuck in traffic jams on Park rd and Grafton bridge. Cars of course get to park in the sports fields next to museum.
Another approach would be to run a shuttle with priority lanes from say Brito and Newmarket to really make PT more attractive.
Best travel option by far is by bike.
I did think about that but riding in the dark with my 9yo daughter with the level of traffic expected is not something I would contemplate. I don’t understand why they don’t just close all the roads around the domain (not just in the Domain) and have a ‘fan trail’ type thing. Offering parking in the Domain just seems to be asking for traffic madness which will hold up the PT options (apart from the train).
Well I been waiting 25 mins and still NO inner link!!!!!!!!!! To get 20 of us to the domain
It was pretty poor. One little link every 15mins. Went past our stop full. Thankfully walking was an option… But so many cars taking advantage of the free parking in the domain made that tricky with so many people walking. When is AT going to get serious about events?
I waited at Albert St for a while and there was no Link bus coming, the electronic board was saying nothing until a Link after 7am? I thought I might’ve read the notice wrong so I walked down to Britomart. HEAPS of people waiting on Customs Street, a line about 50m long. On the other side of the road was a Link bus headed for Ponsonby. When it departed, it was full and left about 20 people behind on the curb. At that point I decided to walk to the domain. Took about 20 minutes and on the way I did not see one bus, in either direction.