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Click to edit Master title The styleCity Rail Link – investing in Auckland
August 2015
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Overview • CRL project context • CRL progress • What we leave behind
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Complexity
Waterview $1.4b
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Auckland in 2041 - growth Auckland is pivotal to the social, economic and cultural development of NZ
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More than 700,000 new residents An extra 400,000 dwellings Twice as many city centre and city fringe residents and employees City Centre student numbers up by 30% City centre producing 25% of Auckland’s GDP - currently 17%
2,500,000
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Growth to 2041 2011 Population 1,000,000
500,000 729,000
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Christchurch
Wellington
Waikato
Bay of Plenty
Otago
Growth in Auckland to 2041
Auckland's growth in perspective
We are adding Wellington and Christchurch to Auckland in the next 30 years
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City centre access - modes
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• The number of people entering the city centre is increasing • Since 2001, more people take PT to the city centre during the morning peak and fewer take cars
CRL Video
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Citywide benefits
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Public transport users - changing • NZTA research says the extent to which Generation Y has embraced public transport (PT) and would use it more if it was improved is underestimated • Generation Y (1979-1999) is shunning car ownership in favour of PT - their PT use has been increasing since the turn of the century unlike other age groups. Driver licences also less common. • Generation Zero, a non partisan youth-led organisation that arose from the Copenhagen youth summit has the central purpose of providing solutions for cutting carbon pollution through smarter transport • Suits on trains a norm with annual rail patronage growing 22% • Chinese and Hindi now 2nd and 4th most spoken languages in Auckland
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Albert St developments- 170K sq metres and growing
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Precinct development
• Demolish shopping centre – from 20 May 2016. • Three storey retail podium – opening October 2018 • Multi storey commercial office tower • CRL tunnel construction beneath • At the peak 300-400 workers
CRL Alignment
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Vertical Alignment
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CRL Enabling Works - construction footprint
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Sustainability targets for enabling works
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Reduce
1. Infrastructure Sustainability rating
2. Zero waste to landfill through construction
Reuse Recover Dispose
3. Measuring our carbon footprint
4. Monthly energy, water & waste reporting
Early works impacts
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Britomart to Downtown Shopping Centre – C1 •
Pedestrian access maintained.
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Front/west end of Britomart station closed, use rear/east entrance
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Lower Queen Street closed to vehicles.
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Underground walkway removed between Britomart and DSC.
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Buses removed from Tyler, Galway and Lower Queen Streets. Bus stops will be moved to new permanent locations.
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Temporary construction accommodation at the rear/east entrance of Britomart.
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Early works impacts
Albert Street from Customs to Wyndham Street – C2 Downtown Shopping Centre (DSC) •
DSC developed as a laneway retail development and 38-level tower, constructing the CRL below. Work due to begin May-2016 with completion by 2019
CRL Early Works •
Pedestrian access maintained.
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Buses removed from bus stops will be moved to new permanent locations.
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Stormwater line relocation - thrust
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Constructing cut and cover tunnels up Albert Street to the southern side of Wyndham St
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Custom St left open.
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Staged construction through the busy Customs Albert intersection.
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Britomart Temp Accom CPO (Civil Works) Demolition starts
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Victoria St (east/west constraint)
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- Tyler and Galway Street (access change, buses removed and reversing Tyler) - Lower Queen Street buses removed - Interim bus plan operational
Queen Street Contract 1
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Stormwater pipe moved to enable tunnel construction Albert St cut and cover Lower Albert St (partially closed to through traffic) Albert St (Victoria to Custom) service lanes only)
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Britomart temporary facility
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Lower Queen St public space concept
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Lower Albert Street
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Albert Street public realm – Design concept
Illustration showing Albert Street streetscape concept mid-block
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Aotea Station
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CRL - Karangahape Station, Mercury Lane – concept •
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Catalyst for urban development Future proofed for possible development above the entrance.
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CRL - Mt Eden Station – Design concept
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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 • In reality transport drives land use patterns just as much as land use drives transport demand
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