Takaanini Station level crossing removal

Overview

Every day, large numbers of people use Takaanini Station for work, school, errands and connecting with whānau.

From next year, even more people will use the station. The City Rail Link will unlock more frequent trains and new connections, making it easier to get around Auckland. Southern Line trains will increase to every 5 minutes during peak times, and there is the potential for more in the future.

Currently, you have to walk across the tracks to the station platform. This is called a level crossing. To provide safer access to stations and make way for more trains, we’re removing or replacing these types of crossings. Without removing level crossings there would be a higher safety risk and safety gates would be closed more often, impacting travel times.

To provide safe access to the station platform, we will replace the current level crossing at Takaanini Station with a new pedestrian bridge.

New pedestrian bridge

We will build a new bridge to give the community a safer way to get to the station and make train journeys quicker.

The new bridge will be fully accessible. We propose to build it at the same place as the existing level crossing to the platform. This will maintain easy access to and from the station car park on the north and Maru Road to the south.

At the current crossing, people have to walk directly on the rail tracks. We will permanently close it and replace it this new, safer, accessible pedestrian bridge.

The proposed design of the pedestrian bridge would mean we:

• remove about 19 existing carparks
• keep 265 carparks including 7 accessible car parks.

When this will happen

To make sure we’re ready for the City Rail Link, we expect to begin main construction in December while the rail network shuts down for summer upgrade work. However, we will look to do some initial work from October. As the project timeline progresses, we will continue to update you.

Community engagement

We are working with the community, station users, and local businesses to gather feedback on the pedestrian bridge designs before any works happen. When construction starts, we will work closely with the community to minimise impact.

The designs for the footbridges and further information are now live on our Have Your Say website and open for feedback.