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Major Road Safety Measures Unveiled Tomorrow

Posted by Jon C in New Lynn, RoadingMar 2nd, 2010 | 3 Comments
Transport minister Steven Joyce launches his 10 year road safety strategy plan tomorrow morning but has already triggered a debate about the driving age. This after confirming the strategy will include the goverrnment’s plan to raise the minimum driving age by one year to 16. But the long awaited “Safer Journeys” plan is not just about the driving age. Other important decisions will be unveiled with no doubt something affecting every motorist. Federated Farmers along with the AA predictably came out this afternoon urging the Government to think again on its plan to increase the driving age. “Raising...
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Transport Minister Rides First New Lynn Underground Train Service – Photos

Posted by Jon C in New LynnMar 1st, 2010 | 3 Comments
Transport Minister chose a side seat, Labour's David Cunliffe(left) A VIP commuter train this morning to mark the official opening of the New Lynn rail trench. Thinks: After this trip, I'm going to scrap trains, build more roads! Included on board: Transport Minister Steven Joyce , KiwiRail Chair Jim Bolger, Auckland Mayor John Banks, Auckland Transition Agency chair Mark Ford, Eden Park trust Board trustee Rob Fisher and Waitakere Mayor Bob Harvey. Banksy seems lost in thought The who’s who of local politics were among special travellers early this morning on the first commuter train...
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Freight Train Tries Out New Lynn’s Rail Underground – Photos & Video

Posted by Jon C in New LynnFeb 28th, 2010 | 2 Comments
Tonight, the first ever freight train to use New Lynn’s new underground rail trench and station passed through the station, heading north. Here’s a video of the freight train passing through the rail trench: The freight train run, was just under 11 hours before tomorrrow’s resumption of commuter train services between Britomart and New Lynn, using a temporary underground New Lynn station at Hetana Street. The train went right through the new underground station without stopping and headed in the sunset, heading north to Whangarei, which it will reach in the wee small hours. Late...
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New Lynn’s New Temporary Train Station Almost Ready – Photos

Posted by Jon C in New LynnFeb 28th, 2010 | 1 Comment
Workers are putting the finishing touches to New Lynn’s new temporary train station, being used from Monday morning. The temporary station is inside the rail trench and trains will be running on a single track. Access to the train platform will be from new stairs at Hetana Street and stairs and a temporary lift at Memorial Drive. The actual new station won’t open until September but work continues including construction still be made in the trench, separated from the temporary station by a barrier wall. ALSO TODAY; Construction of new station continues – Photos First test...
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Construction Continues At New Lynn Train Station – Photos

Posted by Jon C in New LynnFeb 28th, 2010 | No Comments
Construction continues on the building of the new New Lynn transport hub and finishing off the rail trench. This continues as trains move underground from Monday morning and a new temporary station is used until the station opens in September. The second line will be laid from June. ALSO TODAY; New Lynn’s new temporary train station almost ready – Photos First test train rolls through trench – VIDEO / PHOTOS SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Construction Continues At New Lynn Train Station – Photos", url: "http://www.aucklandtrains.co.nz/2010/02/28/construction-continues-at-new-lynn-train-station-photos/"...
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New Lynn’s First Underground Train Has Test Run – Photos & Video

Posted by Jon C in New LynnFeb 27th, 2010 | 4 Comments
New Lynn’s first ever underground train passed through the station in the new rail trench at 5pm tonight. Here is a short video of it: The historic occasion was watched by a few of the workers who had been working on the site and a couple of trainspotters! It was two hours behind schedule before making the journey from the New Lynn to the other end of the track just beyond the Clark St/ Rankin Ave roundabout – underground. It later returned through to Britomart. This use of the rail trench marks the end of overground trains across New Lynn township’s busy intersection and...
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New Lynn Train Station About To Move Underground

Posted by Jon C in New Lynn, Rail TrenchFeb 22nd, 2010 | 7 Comments
An exciting development this coming weekend  for New Lynn’s new transport hub, opening about September From today week, a temporary station will be in place inside the trench and trains will be operating on a single track. The second track will be laid about June. From this Friday, over the weekend, workers will be toiling 24 hours day in the rail trench to remove part of the present temporary platform and prepare for the new rail to be laid on one side of the trench. During that weekend, no trains will run through New Lynn. The trench will see the train removed from the road for the first...
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The New New Lynn Transport Hub Emerges – Latest Photos

Posted by Jon C in New Lynn, Rail TrenchFeb 22nd, 2010 | 2 Comments
Shelters are now emerging as part of the new New Lynn transport hub being built in the city and due to open in September. It’s an exciting project because bus and rail are both together in the same proximity and it’s alongside a shopping mall. The present bus area is looking tired and even the branding on the sign is still the old Stagecoach. So it’s good to see the new co-ordinated transport centre emerge, with rail underground and buses on street level. TODAY’S NEW LYNN PHOTOS CONTINUE Station to move underground More photos SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "The New New...
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More New Lynn Photos

Posted by Jon C in New Lynn, Rail TrenchFeb 22nd, 2010 | 2 Comments
Here are some more photos of the latest look at New Lynn’s train station development. TODAY’S NEW LYNN PHOTOS CONTINUE Station to move underground Transport hub emerges SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "More New Lynn Photos", url: "http://www.aucklandtrains.co.nz/2010/02/22/more-new-lynn-photos/" });
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Buses Replace Sunday New Lynn-Avondale Train

Posted by Jon C in Avondale, New LynnFeb 9th, 2010 | 1 Comment
Buses replace Western Line trains between Avondale and New Lynn for the next two Sundays. This is so work can continue at the new New Lynn station without trains passing through. There is a revised train timetable for those buses here SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Buses Replace Sunday New Lynn-Avondale Train", url: "http://www.aucklandtrains.co.nz/2010/02/09/buses-replace-sunday-new-lynn-avondale-train/" });
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Art Graces New Lynn Rail Trench – Photos

Posted by Jon C in New LynnFeb 8th, 2010 | 1 Comment
The Waitakere City Council is ensuring New Lynn’s new underground train station has an arts focus, in keeping with New Lynn’s art and pottery tradition (once home to New Zealand’s Crown Lynn pottery). Artist Louise Purvis was commissioned to lead a team to treat the trench walls with art featuring topographic lines to reflect New Lynn’s origin. The first of the 258 fibreglass-reinforced concrete panels have been now laid along the trench wall next to the station. The Aucklander describes her work on her site as using as primary mediums, stone and metals. “Her works...
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New Lynn Train Station: Getting Over It! Latest Photos

Posted by Jon C in New LynnFeb 8th, 2010 | No Comments
Exciting to see continuing progress being made in the massive New Lynn train station and 1.1km trench development. Look what I found! Surely these aren’t actual Newmarket-style platforms! It’s good weather for painting – let’s hope it’s graffiti proof! Not a lot has changed looking west away from the station but there are materials awaiting some work: PHOTOS CONTINUE here Art graces new New Lynn station – Photos This is how it looked exactly a year ago EARLIER PHOTOS: Dec 31 -Photos Dec 1 Photos Oct 24 – Photos Sept 18 – Photos July 19 -Photos May...
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New Lynn Train Station Development – More Photos

Posted by Jon C in New LynnFeb 8th, 2010 | No Comments
Here are more photos of the progress being made in building the new New Lynn rail station and trench: 1st BATCH OF PHOTOS here Art graces new New Lynn station – Photos EARLIER PHOTOS: Dec 31 -Photos Dec 1 Photos Oct 24 – Photos Sept 18 – Photos July 19 -Photos May 2 – Photos March 25 – Photos Feb 5 2009 – Photos SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "New Lynn Train Station Development – More Photos", url: "http://www.aucklandtrains.co.nz/2010/02/08/new-lynn-train-station-development-more-photos/" });
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New Lynn Transport Centre On Track For September

Posted by Jon C in New LynnDec 31st, 2009 | 1 Comment
It’s all quiet at New Lynn’s rail development at the moment while progress is made on the other rail projects around Auckland. But things are on course for a September opening of what will be an exciting transport centre development, including the rail trench and station. Here are some pictures of what it looks like today: The big dig had finished by Christmas and the final base slab laid. Work on the station inside the trench is well underway. Around April, it’s expected the first train will be put in the trench. This will mean completing the temporary station and finishing...
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New Lynn Project Ahead Of Schedule (Latest Photos)

Posted by Jon C in Development, New LynnDec 1st, 2009 | 4 Comments
New Lynn’s train station and transport interchange project gets more exciting by the week. The trench walls are complete, and the concrete base slabs for the floor of the trench are steadily being laid as excavation continues. Work has begun on the cantilever walkway which will run along the southern side of the trench from the Clark St / Rankin Ave intersection to Hetana Street. Construction is also happening inside the trench to build the station. The track that is currently running along the top of the finished northern trench wall is scheduled to be moved into the trench around April....
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