Parnell station a reality?
I haven’t seen it confirmed elsewhere yet, but the well informed Auckland Trains blog says that Parnell station – on the site of the Mainline Steam sheds – is to proceed.
Auckland Transport’s CEO David Warburton has confirmed the go-ahead for the planned new station.…
18 Comments Big push to complete station upgrades before electrification
There was some great news to come out of yesterday’s Auckland Transport board meeting (though it’s a pity they haven’t bothered to include any detail of what was discussed at the meeting on their website yet ). That news is that the board has agreed in principle to complete an upgrade of all existing train stations in the Auckland region by the time electrification is up and running – which now seems like it might be early 2014.…
Bring on the Auckland Transport CCO!
Yes, I know. That’s a pretty painful blog title for me to post – considering I have opposed the Transport CCO for quite some time now, and in a number of different blog posts. But there have been a number of factors over the past few weeks that have led to me changing my opinion of Auckland’s future transport CCO quite significantly, which I will go through shortly.…
Where to put Parnell station: weighing up the data
I was under the impression that the location of the proposed Parnell station had been finalised after much to-ing and fro-ing, but recently there has been a push by a local group to change this to a somewhat different location .…
A University Train Station
Auckland University and AUT are probably two of the biggest drawcards for public transport users in the CBD. I certainly know from catching New North Road and Sandringham Road buses that at least 50% of the bus passengers seemed to always get off at the two university stops on Symonds Street.…
Parnell/University Train Station
There have been plans for quite some time to add a station between Newmarket and Britomart, to serve the Parnell area and also potentially the university. It hasn’t been a simple process though, with debate between Ontrack, ARTA, Auckland City Council and various local groups over its location.…
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