Completing the RTN
As I state in this recent article at The Spinoff I see Auckland as around half way through a roughly 30 year long programme to retro-fit a complete Rapid Transit Network to itself.
Cities are of course never finished, and nor are their transport systems, but at the end of this period Auckland will have something new and powerful in its very structure: A complete city-wide top tier integrated Strategic Transit Network fed and supported by the Frequent Network below it: A complementary mirror to the city’s motorway and arterial road networks.…
93 Comments City Rail Link visit – behind the covers and under the streets
On Friday, Patrick and I were treated to a tour of the work sites of the City Rail Link. Thanks to Scott, Dale and Glen for showing us around.
Britomart
For most of us, our experience of the works at Britomart the large blue walls at the top of the main stairs, the temporary station building, or the hoardings that surround Lower Queen St.…
CRL station designs and names
On Saturday, the Herald ran a fascinating piece from Simon Wilson looking at the design of the City Rail Link stations. This was interesting for a few reasons. It gave some great new insight into the design process as well as a couple of new images of the stations.…
CRL Feb-18 update – Is it going off the rails?
There’s been a spate of news about the City Rail Link recently and not all of it good.
Bidder pulls out
Late on Tuesday evening, City Rail Link Limited announced that one of the two shortlisted bidders withdrew from the process for the biggest of the contracts, the tunnels and stations from Wyndham to Mt Eden.…
Improving the City Centre Now
You might be a bit surprised to learn that one of the major concerns holding us back from making substantial changes in the City Centre to reallocate street space to public transport, walking and cycling is because of the City Rail Link consent conditions.…
10 Years
Change and Continuity Rather than just look ahead a short distance I thought it may be productive to project forward a decade or so into Auckland’s future urban form. Partly as this is surprisingly easy because of the long lead in times for urban infrastructure, we know what’s coming, and partly because a longer look ahead gives us a better sense of the what the coming change is likely to mean.…
CRL progress – Nov-17
City Rail Link Limited (CRLL) are presenting to the Council’s Finance and Performance Committee tomorrow. Their presentation contains a number of updates on the project. First of all there are some important project wide comments.
CRLL is owned by both the government and the council who act as sponsors.…
Rethinking Albert Street
Continuing my recent look at how we might “rethink” a few major transport projects under development in Auckland, another that we should take a further look at is Albert Street.
Albert Street is currently being ripped up as part of the CRL cut and cover tunnelling works.…
Twyford’s opportunity to enhance the CRL
Yesterday Phil Twyford was confirmed as the new Transport Minister with Julie Anne Genter as an Associate – a powerful team to change transport in NZ. Twyford also picked up the role of Housing and Urban Development. Given housing and transport are two sides of the same coin, it’s great that we might finally be able to see some co-ordination and integration between these two critical portfolios.…
CRL progress – Oct-17
There have been a number of updates recently from City Rail Link Limited (CRLL) showing some of great progress of the city’s highest priority transport project.
Outside Britomart, the path of the tunnels through the Commercial Bay development has become increasingly visible with walls starting to be formed.…
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