URBAN NGAHERE What’s growing around the CRL?
What are we planting?
City Rail Link is unlocking Auckland’s entire rail network by building 3.45km of new underground rail tunnels, two new stations, two redeveloped stations, three new bridges and numerous improved public spaces.
• Some 18 native tree species are being planted as part of the ngahere including Pōhutukawa, Totara, Pūriri, Kahikatea, Mapou and Māhoe, together with numerous native shrubs and groundcover plants.
As part of our work, we’re also greening around train stations and creating four new green spaces on public land with 393 trees and over 4000 native plants.
• Trees, plants and planting areas have been chosen to create new habitat for wildlife and help to provide ecological corridors. We’re planting a wide variety of native species that reflect the trees and plants that traditionally exist in each area. This means they’ll be suited to local conditions and are more likely to thrive.
With streetscape rejuvenation around stations underway this year and next and four new inner-city planting areas agreed to, we are excited to be moving to the final stages of the project’s public realm work.
• All species and locations were chosen together with mana whenua and Auckland Council. Most species are eco-sourced which means they’ve been propagated from the local wild population from within Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland.
In 2019, we planted 36 native trees in Albert Street, at Te Komititanga and around Waitematā Station (Britomart) as part of early works and have returned these areas to the public. Starting this year until the end of the project, we’re planting an additional 357 trees and 4,000 plants around Maungawhau, Karanga-a-Hape and Te Waihorotiu stations, and at Britomart Place, as well as in four Auckland Council-owned spaces in inner-city Auckland.
Pōhutukawa
Totara
Pūriri
Kahikatea
Māhoe
CRLL0507 Ngahere fact sheet KK v4
Fact Sheet