Newsletter - September 2021

After five weeks in Alert Level 4 lockdown, the City Rail Link workforce has sprung back into action on site with the announcement of Auckland’s move to Alert Level 3.

This year’s Te Wiki o te Reo Māori was a great celebration and brought joy and connection especially for those in Tāmaki Makaurau (including the City Rail Link team) still in lockdown.

The relocation of the Huia 2 watermain in Mt Eden has been a complex part of the project, lasting several months, but is now in the final stage of completion with the cutover approaching.

City Rail Link and project Sponsors are pleased to announce the creation of a $12 million hardship fund to help impacted CRL neighbours.

Utility works are about to begin in Basque Park, Eden Terrace with a scheduled start date of 11 October 2021.

Rail progress around the city itself was a lot slower at the start of the 20th century - a saga of missed opportunities for local and central government, leaving a legacy that had to be fixed up later and at a greater expense.

This month we turn the spotlight on Vinod, our IT extraordinaire and reason why the team have been able to stay online during the latest lockdown.

The structure for the Porters Ave bridge, that will eventually hold the “brains” of the rail network, began emerging from the ground just before the latest lockdown as part of the Mt Eden Station works.

Auckland Council and Auckland Transport announced this month a $133 million programme to regenerate Tāmaki Makaurau’s Midtown over the next five years.