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City Rail Link 16 Sep 2024

The new and improved midtown is nearly here

The new and improved midtown is nearly here.

City Rail Link 28 Jul 2023

Have your say on the future of our public transport system

Auckland Transport (AT) has developed proposals to improve our public transport system over the next eight years.

City Rail Link 10 Nov 2021

CRL progress: One lady on the move again, two others retired

Dame Whina Cooper, City Rail Link’s Tunnel Boring Machine has started the second leg of its four-stage journey below Auckland streets for the country’s largest transport infrastructure project. 

Development 5 Nov 2021

VIDEO: optimism for Auckland’s city centre

Auckland Council and Eke Panuku are proud to release a video illustrating how far the city centre has come in its planned 20-year transformation. The video shows how the delivery of the City Centre Masterplan is proving to be much more than the s...

City Rail Link 19 Oct 2021

Breakthrough: Karangahape welcomes Dame Whina Cooper

Auckland’s City Rail Link (CRL) is celebrating a mighty milestone with its powerful Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM), Dame Whina Cooper, breaking through today into the Karangahape Station construction site at the end of its 860-metre-long journey from...

Auckland's Future In Progress 28 Sep 2021

Auckland Council lists $133million cluster of projects to regenerate midtown

Auckland Council and Auckland Transport have unveiled their midtown programme, describing the area as: ‘a part of Auckland where our history, art and culture can be seen and heard.

Development 6 Sep 2021

Karangahape Road records retail high before bracing for lockdown

Before the current lockdown, figures from Marketview ranked Karangahape Road the highest performing Business Improvement District across the Auckland region for the past three months.

City Rail Link 9 Aug 2021

Breakthrough at New Zealand’s deepest railway station

Two sections of New Zealand’s deepest railway station are joined up after an underground breakthrough at City Rail Link’s Karangahape Station.

City Rail Link 16 Jul 2021

Dame Whina Cooper goes 24/7 as CRL tunnelling ramps up

The final piece of City Rail Link’s Tunnel Boring Machine, Dame Whina Cooper, is now in place allowing the big underground factory to operate at full capacity on its transformational journey below Auckland.

Transport 4 Jun 2021

Transport outcomes agreed for key downtown redevelopment opportunity

Auckland Council’s Planning Committee has approved the transport outcomes for the redevelopment of the Downtown Car Park site.

City Rail Link 13 May 2021

CRL station taking shape below Auckland streets

Construction of New Zealand’s deepest railway station is celebrating a significant milestone with the project pouring the last concrete to complete the first underground floor.

City Rail Link 11 May 2021

Exciting step for CRL as Tunnel Boring Machine launched

Completing Auckland’s City Rail Link has taken an exciting step forward with the official launch of the Tunnel Boring Machine, Dame Whina Cooper, at the project’s Mt Eden site.

Transport 6 Nov 2020

Tāmaki Makaurau on track to a better future

Within five years, Aucklanders will have a modern rail service and world-class stations that will benefit the entire transport network for decades to come, Mayor Phil Goff says.

City Rail Link 20 Nov 2019

Walk the Tunnels event a great success says City Rail Link

The City Rail Link project is thanking Aucklanders for their support after Sunday’s successful Walk the Tunnels open day.

City Rail Link 12 Dec 2018

People at the heart of city centre and waterfront transformation

Downtown area will emphasise green space and pedestrian-friendly design.