Maungawhau Station Community Liaison Group Meeting
12 March 2025
Maungawhau Station
Urban realm & utilities
Architecture & fit-out
Systems and track
City Rail Link Limited
Eke Panuku Development Auckland
Auckland Transport
Helga Sonier Community Manager
Community
• Blocks of Line
• Mana Whenua Forum visit
• Latest communications
• Prism deinstalls
• Pre and post-condition surveys Coming up:
• Easter/ANZAC BOL
• Good neighbour awards
• Perimeter tours
Thibaut L'Hopital
Maungawhau Station Manager
Construction at Maungawhau
Nick James
Tunnel Systems Delivery Manager and Station Fit-out
Manager
Architecture & fit-out
• Station fit-out
• CRL platform
• Signage
• Facilities, turnstiles and ticketing booths
Station fit-out
CRL Platform
Signage
Facilities, turnstiles and ticketing booths
Julien Charnay
Dynamic Testing Lead and
Signalling Manager
Dynamic testing & Remedial works in Tunnel
• Successful energisation and train testing underway
• Upcoming BOLs: March 15/16 and Easter weekend + ANZAC weekend BOL
Project Engineer Opeti Prescott
Urban realm and utilities
• Streets
• Station plaza
Rachel Blundell
Head of Communications &
Engagement
Where are we now?
The Outline Plan of Works, including the Urban Design DWP which incorporated CLG feedback, confirmed prior to Christmas.
Enabling works, including bulk fill, completed over summer by Link Alliance
Procurement of a contractor for main roading and civil works. Engineering approvals are obtained.
Anticipated construction start, cohabiting with Link Alliance, and will continue until the end of 2025.
To align with planting season, trees will be planted in 2026 by the contractor.
Tree species have been chosen
And others, including
Puriri and Rewarewa
White Marie
Pohutakawa
Taraire, Mahoe, and Titoki.
What it’s going to look like
What’s next?
- Once a contractor is confirmed, we will introduce them to neighbours and the CLG
- Keeping the community updated about timings for when work starts – currently expected to be May 2025
- Existing measures to mitigate environmental impacts will remain in place during construction
Kate Cumberpatch Priority Location Director
Eke Panuku
Development Auckland
Eke Panuku Development Auckland update
• Required development sites compliance work is being completed by CRLL. Includes things like easements for rail, maintenance, etc.
• Sites are to be transferred from CRLL to Auckland Council, for Eke Panuku to manage. Approval will be sought in March 2025 from the Auckland Council Governing Body and Crown Sponsors.
• If the above continues to progress, the first development sites could be on the market in the coming months.
• Plans continue to shape up for the development sites in the interim phase, prior to development, looking at safety, access, maintenance, wayfinding and activations, connecting to work by CRLL, AT and Auckland Council, especially around station opening.
• A potential opportunity for the Uptown Business Association to include relevant signage and wayfinding along fences or within corners of vacant development sites to promote businesses in area.
• Local Board's approval to accept the pocket park on the corner of Nikau and Flower streets, that CRLL is constructing, into Council parks assets will be sought in coming months.
James Wickham Siobhan O'Donovan
Shane Bradbury
Auckland Transport
Shane Hartley
Mt Eden Road resealing
• Starting in April – letter to come
• 1.2km from Nikau Street to Bellevue Road
• After completion:
• Bus stops will go into operation
• New crossing outside Maungawhau Station will go into operation
• Resealing Ruru Street, Korari Street, and Flower Street
• Renewing the footpaths
• New parking design – consultation to come
• New lighting Side streets off New North Road
New fare zone changes
Problem
• Thank you for raising.
• We are looking at ways to resolve.
• Discrepancy between bus and train journeys that we would like to resolve:
• For BUS journeys starting/finishing within the isthmus zone, involving a transfer inside the central fare zone: 2-zone fare.
• For TRAIN journeys starting/finishing within the isthmus zone, involving a transfer inside the central fare zone: 1-zone fare.
• The recent fare zone changes have not resolved this problem.
Proposal
• AT propose to undertake a holistic review of the fare system before CRL opens. This will look at several factors, including:
• Overlap zone boundaries.
• For journeys starting/finishing within the isthmus zone that travel inside the central fare zone, consider charging a 2-zone fare (a train journey from Mt Albert to Onehunga for example, would be a 2-zone fare).
• We propose to report back to the community once AT have established a position on this.
Questions & Answers
