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The City Rail Link Click to edit Master title investing in Auckland’s style future CDD update November 2014
www.aucklandtransport.govt.nz
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Overview • Enabling works
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Complexity
Clyde Dam $2.5b
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Downtown redevelopment
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Enabling works
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Britomart
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Integrated design team • 100 strong integrated design team in co-located project office • Expertise drawn from New Zealand, Europe, Asia, America and Australia • Benchmarking best practice from new underground railways around the world • Combining the rich cultural background of Auckland with technical excellence to create a uniquely kiwi railway experience
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Britomart
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Aotea station
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Aotea
Concept Design Images
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Karangahape Road station
Doc. No. CRL-XXX-XXX-000-PPT-XXXX | Rev. X | Date dd/mm/yyyy
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Karangahape Road
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Mt Eden Station redevelopment
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Mt Eden Station Redevelopment
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Mt Eden Station redevelopment
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Designation and consents • • • •
About 70 pages of conditions Six appeals Discussions continuing with appellants If required, Environment Court first quarter 2015
• Consents for pipejack to be lodged 14th • Consent for enabling works in December
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Property
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42 surface properties have been purchased - about 23,000sq m of property under active management - (62% commercial, 33% residential, 5% undeveloped) - another 27 surface properties to buy - total of 69 surface properties totalling 35,000sq m) Subterranean purchase to start 2015
Project process
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Programme
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CRL challenges • • • • • •
70m to climb in 3.4 km Waterlogged reclaimed ground Un-weathered/weathered ECB Basalt Major utilities to relocate Cut and cover construction within the CBD
• Underpinning CPO at Britomart • Deep shafts at Karangahape Rd • Maintaining rail operations at Britomart and Mt Eden • Integration with other major projects • Resourcing
Transport - Conclusions There is an established way of approach transport appraisal based on straight line growth forecasts and values of time with fixed population and employment patterns, but it is not clear that it reflects what actually happens
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In reality transport drives land use patterns just as much as land use drives transport demand
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