Bus, Train To Foo Fighters, Western Springs

 

Trains after the Foo Fighters Western Springs concert on Tuesday night will run after midnight.

There will be special buses to Western Springs and back to The CBD and North Shore and ones that will take fans to Britomart for the trains.

The cost return will be $10 return whatever mode you use.

Buses

Auckland CBD: Buses depart bus stop 7301 on Quay St Near Queen St, approximately every 5 minutes (or when full) between 4.30pm - 8.00pm and run direct to Western Springs. Buses will drop passengers on Great North Rd, between Bullock Track and Surrey Crescent. A return (cash) fare of $10 applies.

After the concert services will depart Western Springs from the drop off point on Great North Road between Bullock Track and Surrey Crescent from 10:30pm until one hour post-event.

North Shore: Buses depart Albany station approximately every 10 minutes between 4.00pm - 7.30pm and run via all Northern Busway Stations to Western Springs. Buses will drop passengers on Great North Rd, between Bullock Track and Surrey Crescent. A return (cash) fare of $10 applies.

After the concert services will depart Western Springs opposite the drop-off point from 10:30pm until one hour post-event.

Train timetable after the concert See

Ferries. Normal

Info on Maxx

Concert info

4.30pm Entry to Western Springs open
5.30pm Cairo Knife Fight
6.05pm Fucked Up
7.00pm Tenacious D
8.20pm Foo Fighters
11.00pm Approximate finishing time

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4 Comments

 
  1. rtc says:

    Oh for the day that PT in Auckland is good enough that we don’t have to run dozens of special services to allow people to get to an event.

  2. San Luca says:

    Can’t believe they are promoting trains to the event. Its over 20minutes to walk from Baldwin Ave

  3. Bryan says:

    San Luca, you need to read the story properly. :-)

    Fans will catch buses from the stadium to Britomart, then hop on the train. Fine for southerners, but not so hot for westies.

    However, it’s only 1.3km to Morningside station, or 1.5km to Baldwin Ave - should be an easy walk for fit young things. :-)

  4. OrangeKiwi says:

    Well, transport to the gig was a disaster. Could’ve taken the Outer Link to St Lukes and walk a short distance (1.2k I think), but for some reason opted to go 2 Britomart and catch one of the special buses instead.

    Bad choice. It was very busy (as you would expect) but no communication whatsoever, ended up in a queue with other people who had no clue about what was going on either. After having waited in the queue for 30mins we found out from other people in the queue you couldn’t pay on the bus and there was a separate queue for tickets. No word on that on any website beforehand, no signs placed on location and no-one there to tell us about this.

    That ticket queue went at least one and a half time around the block of buildings (bordered by Quay, Commerce, Tyler, Queen St) and was hardly moving. Looked liked it was going to take an hour at least just to get the tickets - then back to the second queue for boarding.

    So just like many, many others we ventured off into Queen St and surrounding areas looking for a taxi. It was crazy, but managed to find one. Those taxi drivers had one of the best nights I can tell you.

    On the way back we just went for a taxi straight away, which was fast and easy as - our taxi driver commented to us that the taxi pickup area was extremely well organised for once. Apparently the buses were still not leaving by the time we got home (it’s about 7k).

    Foo Fighters rocked though, had a good night out…

 

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