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 .…
36 Comments Progress on Auckland’s PT
I learned quite a few interesting and useful things about the progress of various public transport projects throughout Auckland today, as well as various other aspects of how things are going. I will briefly outline what I can remember, but feel free to ask for further information on anything in particular in the comments thread: Resource consent for building the Onehunga Station was received last week, and construction has just begun on this station (the first step being to demolish existing buildings on the site).…
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.…
Progress at New Lynn station
It has been over a month since I last visited New Lynn station – to attend the rail-trench opening. In that time a significant amount of progress seems to have been made on constructing the above ground part of the station.…
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.…
Rail Upgrades over Easter
There are a number of upgrades happening on the Auckland rail network over the Easter break, leading to a rather complicated system of bus replacements being required. Here’s generally what’s happening: Credit to the latest KiwiRail newsletter for this information.
It’s good to see that double-tracking between Newmarket and Boston Road will be fully completed, and Grafton Station pretty close to completed.…
Tweaking the Western Line
From Sunday April 11th there are going to be some minor changes to the timetable for the Western Line. These are explained in ARTA’s media release (which I had emailed to me but doesn’t seem to have shown up on either the MAXX website or the ARTA website):
Train timetable tweaked
The Auckland Regional Transport Authority (ARTA) announced today the timetable for Western Line train services will change from Sunday 11 April.…
Celebrating Auckland’s PT improvements
Last week Jon over at Auckland Trains wrote a post entitled Cheer Up! prompted by a post at Silver Machine about how the negativity of the public transport forums is driving people away and causing politicians to say, “stuff the PT advocates, they are never happy”.…
Rail boardings per station
I have been meaning to post this table for ages, because it shows us some quite interesting information on Auckland’s rail network. I’m not sure whether this is an average, or whether it’s just on one particular day, but it does provide us with some useful information.…
February Rail Statistics – still pathetic
ARTA has released the performance statistics for trains in February, and the result is predictably pathetic. Things have improved slightly in some areas compared to the January statistics, when punctuality on the Western Line was a mere 36%. However, in other respects the February results are even worse than January, as the system operated throughout the whole of February (as opposed to the last couple of weeks of January only).…
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