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Messy Station Square Saga Pt 2
There is a little good news about Station Square - but only in terms of the ghastly narrow Broadway access way. Yesterday I described the Square as a total...
Station Square Total FAIL
It’s turned into a total fail. I have been stopping my monthly visits to Newmarket’s troubled soul-less cold concrete- dominated Station Square, dwarfed...
Station Square Update
I went to Newmarket’s Station Square this afternoon to see if it had come to life at all since the last depressing update here. Yes, i know I’m obsessed...
Pretty Vacant & Wet
I caught a late train from Newmarket last night - and was disturbed to find the entrance way from Remuera Rd very wet with water seeping across the walkway. Take...
Ghost Town
In October, before Newmarket’s new train station opened, I had worries about the Station Square that was adjacent to it. I wrote: It looks like the sort of...
Land On Station Square: Go Directly To Jail
Put up a sign in Auckland saying don’t do something and poor-sighted Aucklanders immediately do the opposite. Or maybe , it’s the challenge to disobey. I...
Hacky Sack Banned When Waiting For A Train!
Signs that have just gone up either end of Newmarket’s new Station Square show the excesses of officialdom once you give them the chance to make rules. We’re...
Newmarket’s New Station Square - Another Cold Soulless Concrete Jungle
Did they mix up the designs with that of the new Mt Eden Prison? How could they have done it yet again? The new Newmarket station looks great. But Newmarket’s...
