London trade delegation April 2015

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The City Rail Link Click to edit Master title investing in Auckland’s style future London Trade Delegation

13 April 2015

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Strategic context

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Growth Challenge Household Growth

Employment Growth

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Auckland in 2041 Auckland is pivotal to the social, economic and cultural development of New Zealand

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More than 700,000 new residents

An extra 400,000 dwellings Twice as many city centre and city fringe residents and employees City Centre student numbers up by 30% City centre producing 25% of Auckland’s GDP currently 17%

2.500.000

2.000.000

1.500.000

Growth to 2041 2011 Population 1.000.000

500.000 729.000

0 Auckland

Christchurch

Wellington

Waikato

Bay of Plenty

Otago

Growth in Auckland to 2041

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City Access

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• The number of people entering the city centre is increasing • Since 2001, more people take PT to the city centre during the morning peak and fewer take cars

LRT •

CRL does not address access from the north, the central and southern isthmus or UoA and Wynyard Quarter

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Buses from non rail areas will create significant congestion

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Bus terminal capacity is at a premium and will become challenging and costly

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More of the same means bumper to bumper cars will be replaced by wall to wall buses

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Commuter and LRT Commuter rail – CRL A regional solution to optimise rail for an efficient transport network LRT Provides access from the central and southern isthmus Buses from non-rail areas will create significant congestion Optimises road within the transport network

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CRL route

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CRL animation

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CRL progress •

CRL notified Jan 2013

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Designation confirmed April 2014

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Six appeals now in mediation

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About 70 properties being purchasednearly 58 to date

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About 30,000sq m of property under active management

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November 2014 – Council resolved to fund early construction

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First CLG formed March 2015

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Early works construction contracts awarded April 2015

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Subterranean purchases to start this year

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CRL programme

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Early works construction footprint

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Design experience & technology sought •

Tunnel boring machine (TBM)

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Cut & cover trench construction

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Railway systems

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Train station design and construction

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International benchmark experience in sustainable infrastructure

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Urban framework

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Sits within an urban design framework that facilitates street life

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Integrated into local precincts

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Partnering with a local business •

The contract for the CRL’s construction from Britomart Station to the Downtown Shopping Centre site has been awarded to Downer (NZ) and Soletanche Bachy (international)

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The Waterview Connection is being delivered by the Well-Connected Alliance: NZ Transport Agency, Fletcher Construction, McConnell Dowell Constructors, Beca Infrastructure, Tonkin & Taylor, Parsons Brinkerhoff, and Obayashi Corporation - an international company

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Tendering process to date •

Open tendering process with Expressions of Interest (EOI)

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Notified EOI on Tenderlink

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AT is the contracting party

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The construction contract to commence in 2018 will have a completion date of 2023 with no intermediate milestone completions

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Assessment criteria for the tender review are not known at this stage

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It’s not yet known if this will be a standard form of contract or one developed by the client

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Next steps • • • • •

Business case completion AT Board decision to proceed and at what pacelate April 2015 Engagement with funding partners Stakeholders Procurement

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Transport - Conclusions • There is an established way of approach transport appraisal based on straight line growth forecasts and values of time with fixed population and employment patterns, but it is not clear that it reflects what actually happens

• In reality transport drives land use patterns just as much as land use drives transport demand

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