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Manukau Station First Look
Manuaku’s new train station is looking awesome. Structural work is almost done, tracks are all laid including inside the 300m rail trench, there’s talk...
Manukau Getting Hooked Up
It was almost around now that the new Manukau rail line was to have opened. While that has been delayed until next February, good to see the track work continues. Here...
Manukau: So Close, So Far
The rail tracks have been laid inside the new 300m Manukau rail trench and once a bit of familiar station furniture is added, you could imagine the station operating....
SH20 Cavendish Section Opened
The SH20 Cavendish to Puhinui connecting road and westbound on-ramp in Manukau has been opened completing the new SH20-1 Manukau motorway. This was the final stage...
Auck Transport Meeting Roundup
Auckland Transport today opened up its monthly board meeting to the public and media for the first time - although some key issues such as leasing or buying...
Wiri Station Rd Opens
Wiri Station Road in Manukau opens tomorrow as it enters the final stage of construction, to complete the new SH20 -1 Manukau Extension motorway project. Wiri Station...
Signalling Traffic Changes
Because of frustrations about traffic congestion at the connection of State Highways 20 and 1 at Manukau, ramp signals will start operating from Monday to try...
Manuaku Project Wins Award
NZTA and its partners on the Manukau Harbour Crossing project have beaten off 15 other contenders to win one of Australasia’s top industry award for excellence. The...
More Manukau Changes
More road changes in Manukau because of the problems. This time changes to Wiri Station Road in Manukau from Labour Weekend. The eastbound lanes of Wiri Station...
Manukau Delays Brings Change
New traffic control measures will be introduced as NZTA’s answer to criticism about its motorway congestion at Manukau. Southbound lanes on the Southwestern...
Lee: Airport Rail ‘Sooner Than Later”
ARC Chair Mike Lee in a report to the full ARC council says we must start thinking now about airport rail. Discussing the success of the Onehunga line opening, he...
Recidivist Drink Drivers Caught Again
Another drink driving crackdown in South Auckland over the weekend so piles of people caught once again -many of them recidivist drink drivers. Police stopped more...
SH20 Walmsley Upgrade Starts Tonight
NZTA will be starting the SH20 Walmsley Upgrade Project tonight - the section between Auckland International Airport and Manukau. The project to widen a...
Manukau Motorway Changes Sunday
Big changes for motorists from Sunday when the westbound lanes of the new SH20-1 Manukau Extension motorway open in Manukau.. The new motorway connects SH20)and...
All Lanes On SH20 Upgrade To Open
Weather permitting, all lanes on the upgraded SH20 between Walmsley Road and Queenstown Road will be open and fully functioning from 5am tomorrow. NZTA says...
Crazy Weekend Ahead: Details
It’s going to be a crazy weekend ahead. You can walk and cycle on parts of the new Manukau and Newmarket motorway developments - but won’t be able...
Auck Motorway Projects Update
Here’s an update from NZTA of all the hectic motorway projects and progress in the next few months leading up to Christmas. The duplicate Manukau Harbour...
Pics: Manukau Rail Today
Here is how Manukau’s rail link development with its rail trench is looking today. It’s about a year away from opening. You can see how it will end up...
How Manukau Will Look
Like New Lynn, the new Manukau rail link will nicely marry bus and train into a transport interchange that is still lacking at Britomart. The Manukau railway train...
Inside Manukau’s Rail Trench
Here are some close-up photos of Manukau’s rail trench. The line is exactly one year away from opening. As I reported a few days ago, contractors have finished...
Manukau Ahead Of Schedule
Drought-like autumn conditions enabled KiwiRail to finish excavation of the Manukau rail trench well ahead of schedule. Contractors have finished the excavation...
Len Brown Supports Trams
Manukau Mayor and super council candidate Len Brown has praised the return of electric trams as a being on the right track for the future of Auckland’s public...
Brown May Scrap Transport CCO
SuperCity Mayoral candidate Len Brown promises to review the new Auckland Transport CCO within two years of being Mayor as he’s still not convinced it’s...
Video: Manukau Trench
Manukau’s rail trench, a Big Brother of New Lynn’s trench, is moving forward fast. Here’s my video showing what it looks like today: And here...
Photos: Manukau’s Station
Steel, steel and lots of it. That’s what’s being poured into building Manukau’s train station, which will incorporate the new Manukau Institute...
