The Manukau Courier has a full report on the progress the city’s new station is making: Diggers have started excavating the 300-metre long trench where trains will draw up beside two platforms at the new railway station at Davies Ave. KiwiRail project manager Paul Crawford says the start of digging […]
Manukau Rail Link
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The Howick and Pakuranga Times reports that construction of the new branch from the Southern Line (NIMT) to central Manukau City is now well underway. http://www.times.co.nz/cms/news/2009/09/all_steam_ahead_on_new_link.php
It has been an interesting year so far for Auckland’s public transport. Probably the biggest story of the year so far was the cancellation of the Regional Petrol Tax back in March, which put most of the public transport improvements that we can expect in the next few years, into […]
Well at long last construction of the Manukau Rail Link has begun. This will be the first new stretch of railway to be built in Auckland in around 70 years (no wonder we’re so auto-dependent), and is a fairly short link between the existing Southern Line and Manukau City Centre. […]