Photo of the day: Weeds
This site is surely a prime candidate for development sitting right next to the Grafton Station and just across the road from the new Auckland University campus currently under construction. In addition it is also passed by all the buses that travel along Park Rd.…
48 Comments Newmarket Campus site progressing quickly
Anyone who has been on a western line train between Newmarket and Grafton recently will undoubtedly have seen all of the work going on to clear the old Lion Brewery site that will eventually become the Newmarket campus for the Auckland University.…
How much rail in Newmarket has changed
Today is a bit of a history day. Despite the running down and removal of our PT system over the decades we know that new life is currently being breathed into it so I believe it is important to remember just how far we have come in a relatively short space of time.…
Developments in Newmarket and New Lynn get the green light
There were two big bits of development news yesterday.
The first was that the University of Auckland confirmed that they were buying the former Lion Brewery site in Newmarket as part of their plans to consolidate their operations in the central city.…
Well that answers the “eastern link” question
Some really interesting news today about the big Lion Breweries site in Newmarket – which looks like will be purchased by Auckland University:
The University of Auckland is shutting its Epsom and Tamaki campus hubs and buying a big Newmarket site where it will educate and house some of its growing student population base.…
Grafton Station
As promised I visited the newly opened Grafton Station today. Somewhat hilariously in the 5 minutes that I was there I came across two other public transport enthusiasts who were also there to check the station out. Generally my overall impression was that it’s an impressive little station – and has been thought out very carefully.…
Grafton Station Opens
For someone who doesn’t really seem to like rail all that much, Steven Joyce has certainly opened quite a few train stations, rail trenches and the like. This somewhat bizarre situation continued today with the opening of Grafton Station. While Grafton Station is really just a relocation of Boston Road station by about 200m, it has been built as a pretty high quality station from scratch and will offer good connectivity with the domain, hospital, various schools and the Central Connector busway.…
What can ARTA do about our trains?
In a typically well thought out comment on my recent post that ARTA should focus on getting the train system sorted before getting stuck into all these bizarre promotions they have going on, Nick R pointed out that I was perhaps being a little bit harsh on ARTA and that the problems being experienced by our rail system at the moment are – just like they’ve been for years – the result of decades of neglect.…
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