Project Benefits
CITY RAIL LINK LIMITED ANNUAL REPORT 2019 - 2020
Project Benefits
City Rail Link delivering significant benefits for Auckland When it opens, the City Rail Link will provide a world class rail system to help an international city like Auckland grow further. The CRL is a 3.45 kilometre twin-tunnel
or car would require another three
rail station in New Zealand and will
underground connection between the
Auckland Harbour Bridges or 16 extra
feature tiles printed with thousands
redeveloped Britomart and Mt Eden
traffic lanes into the city centre. Better
of artworks from New Zealand
Stations. New inner-city stations;
travel choices will help to ease pressure
one underneath Albert Street with
children. The public space around CRL
on roads and create health benefits
entrances at Wellesley and Victoria
which includes cleaner air with more
stations are also being designed to
Streets provisionally named Aotea, and
people travelling on electric trains.
the other under Karangahape Road with entrances at Beresford Square and Mercury Plaza provisionally named Karangahape will also be constructed. The project’s benefits are many. It will eliminate the existing and inefficient “dead-end” rail service at Britomart Station and allow through trains to run underground in central Auckland. CRL will also double the capacity of Auckland’s rail network to carry up to 54,000 passengers an hour during morning and afternoon peaks times. To move the same number by bus
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There will also be significant time savings for travellers and better connections across Auckland’s train network.
be community focused and visually stunning. CRL will become a catalyst for significant development of new commercial properties and thousands of homes to be built around its stations,
Once it is built, CRL will double the
providing people with better access to
number of people who live within 30
housing and employment opportunities.
minutes travel of New Zealand’s biggest employment hub, central Auckland. World class station designs unique to New Zealand will recognise the cultural and historic ties of Iwi to Tāmaki Makaurau. Aotea is set to become the busiest
As the largest infrastructure project in New Zealand, CRL is playing a key role in the economic stimulus response to Covid-19. It is a significant procurer of goods and services and will employ and upskill thousands of people throughout its lifespan.
