Work on the Manukau city centre rail link and the new railway station is now underway.
The project is a collaboration between ARTA, Kiwirail and Manukau City Council.
The 2km new Manukau rail line will link Manukau city centre with the Southern Line at Puhinui. It is the first new rail route to be built in Auckland since the Eastern Line in 1930.
A seven metre deep, 300m-long rail trench will house two 180m-long lateral platforms and the station. The project is part of a $600m upgrade of Auckland’s rail network which, when completed, will allow more frequent and reliable passenger services and improve pedestrian safety around the rail network.
Manukau Station will be a transport interchange where passengers can easily transfer between trains and buses. The station will be part of a tertiary campus building, stage 1 of a three hectare campus being developed by Manukau Institute of Technology.
The station is due to open in late 2010/early 2011. Stage one of the planned tertiary campus being developed by Manukau Institute of Technology (MIT) will be open to its first students at the start of the 2012 academic year.
After coming up an escalator passengers will step out to a covered bus interchange on Davies Avenue, with capacity for eight bus bays. The Manukau station will be the main hub for most of the bus services in the south of the Auckland region.
Approximately 600,000 passengers a year will use the train station, a similar level to Newmarket, only Britomart will be busier. About 1.2 million people are expected to use the bus station each year.
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