YOUR NEW MIDTOWN STATION IS COMING
Artist impression of Wellesley Street entrance to Aotea Station.
The heart of Tāmaki Makaurau is being transformed City Rail Link will provide Auckland with the modern rail network that people expect of the world’s best cities. It will unlock Auckland’s public transport network and improve travel choice and journey times. Together with Auckland Council-led regeneration, the City Rail Link will ensure improved access, enhanced public spaces, cleaner air and a strong Māori identity to make our city centre a welcoming and vibrant destination - one that is uniquely Tāmaki Makaurau. Over the next 30 years, a million more people will call Auckland home, and we’re working hard to ensure that we plan a city with people at its heart – creating a greener, safer, and better-connected city centre for everyone.
Aotea Station in midtown Aotea Station, which will run underneath Albert Street, is set to become the busiest transport centre in New Zealand. With entrances on both Wellesley and Victoria Streets, and room for nine-car electric trains, Aotea Station will revitalise the midtown precinct and provide
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people with better access to education and the arts precinct, as well as new housing and employment opportunities. The new, state of the art, underground station will be 15-metres-deep, 300-metres-long and will connect with Britomart Station, a new station under Karangahape Road, and a redeveloped Mt Eden Station with 3.45km of new underground track. With a train at least every ten minutes at peak times, you can just turn up and go. No more timetables! Aotea Station will also be future-proofed for a potential future connection to the North Shore, and has been designed to accommodate a future 41,000sqm tower development being built over the top of its Wellesley Street entrance. The cultural narratives in Aotea Station’s design and immediate surrounds have been gifted by Mana Whenua. At its Wellesley Street entrance, hundreds of rods representing the stems of harakeke (flax) will be suspended from the ceiling to create a rippled lighting effect that mimics water. Skylights representing the seven stars of the Matariki constellation - which marks the start of the Māori new year - will light the underground concourse and platforms.