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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.
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“It’s an exciting project because bus and rail are both together in the same proximity and it’s alongside a shopping mall.”
I hate to say it, but … the old bus and rail stations were alongside each other too, as was the mall. Nothing too new here - just $120m wasted putting the 2nd track in a trench so a few lazy people didn’t have to walk over or under the tracks.
And we wonder why we run out of cash to improve PT in NZ. Sigh.
No offense bob, but you seem to not know the background of this project.
If the second trench had been at grade, and we then had the new frequencies that double-tracking, electrification and new trains are to provide, the nearby level road crossings in New Lynn would have been stuffed. Gridlock was already *extremely* bad at these locations, and with the extra delays of the new trains, you could have just as well closed the level crossings.
Of course you may agree with that, but the 90% who prefer driving cars do not. So it was either the choice between not double-tracking and not increasing frequencies, or providing grade separation instead.
It may have been costly, but now trains won’t hold up cars, and car drivers won’t grumble about the trains.