Photo of the day – Takutai Square
Photos are copyright to Sydney and Craig.…
19 Comments Britomart’s Birthday celebrated with news part of CRL to start Early
As mentioned yesterday, Britomart is now 10 years old and Auckland Transport and the Council decided to celebrate that milestone today. I caught an early (for me) train into Britomart this morning to have a look at the celebrations. Here is Len arriving at the station.…
Happy 10th Birthday Britomart
On the 7th of July 2003 – 10 years ago today – the very first train pulled into Britomart. It was a historic moment that brought the rail network back to the edge of the city for the first time in over 70 years, and helped spark the revival of not only the rail network, but public transport in general – as well as urban regeneration.…
Accustomed to Customs Street
Having recently returned from exile in Brisbane, I’ve been enjoying spending some more time loitering around Auckland’s rapidly rejuvenating city centre. One of the areas I’ve particularly enjoyed reconnecting with is Customs Street.
I’ve always liked Customs Street. It feels like Auckland’s forgotten “centroid”.…
Rail Patronage vs Projections
With the release of the station boarding data in the post yesterday by Mr Anderson, and the recent sluggish patronage growth, its perhaps worthwhile looking at how things are going compared to projections. Again we can look at the supporting report for a lot of information as AT/AC attempted to answer one part of Steven Joyce’s question relating to evidence of patronage growth, particularly in the morning peak.…
Ticket gates appearing at Britomart
I got sent through this photo today – highlighting that while some serious questions remain over the rollout of the HOP card at least there is some progress on getting the ticket gates in, building on progress at Newmarket a couple of weeks back:
For a number of reasons I really can’t wait until these gates are operational and we have the HOP card live on the rail, bus and ferry network.…
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