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Eden Park and Kingsland Station work on display
2 Comments · Posted by andrew in Uncategorized
An information day was held at the Methodist Church today showing the upgrade works around Eden Park and Kingsland Station. Auckland City Council, Metrowater, ARTA, KiwiRail and Opus Consultants were there.
The displays showed planned upgrade works to local streets and to services such as power and water, as well as the further upgrade work to Kingsland Station. I had a good chat with James from Opus.
Besides its special events and World Cup duties, Kingsland has a lot of potential as an interchange station, which is what I’m trying to use it as.
It has two main barriers to being effective in this role: Lack of integrated ticketing, and no requirement for express buses to stop there at this stage. Both could be solved quite quickly and cheaply.
Besides Kingsland Station, another item that was of interest was KiwiRail’s (not Ontrack’s?) information on electrification. I’ve scanned the flyer here: Electrifying Auckland’s Rail Network.
Interesting information was the order in which the lines will be electrified. Assuming that electric trains are available when the lines are complete (either EMUs or, more likely, electric loco hauled sets), then the first line to see regular electrics may well be the Onehunga branch, in addition to Eden Park specials.
I was also told that this will be the first section to get the long-awaited and much needed signalling upgrade (there were two signal failures today, one in this section at Newmarket)
And I was told at the evening that rumor is that at least a paper integrated ticket will be in place in time for the Rugby World Cup, so long as Transport Minister Stephen Joyce does not manage to repeal the Public Transport Management Act. If he does that then it will be much harder to get one ready in time for the World Cup.
The PTMA gives the Auckland Regional Transport Authority (ARTA) and its supercity successor power to require operators to accept integrated tickets, such as on the North Shore with its Northern Pass. If this Act is repealed, they will lose that power.
Jeremy Harris · November 19, 2009 at 12:18 am
I hope they don’t get rid of the muralled wall as it looks like from that image…
Admin comment by andrew · November 19, 2009 at 10:42 am
Hopefully it was just too hard to CGI for the mock-up. I’d say that the mural will be extended, probably not just straight away. It’ll more likely happen like this:
The platform and wall get extended, with the extension blank.
The extension will get tagged and look awful, *then* somoene’ll think to commission an extension to the mural, or a new one.