Kia ora neighbour,
Matariki offers us an opportunity to remember those who have passed while providing us with a chance to celebrate with loved ones and reflect on our goals for the year ahead.
Over the past month, Maungawhau Station has seen tremendous progress unfold across the urban realm that surrounds the new station. The hard and complex work completed by our civil and urban realm teams is particularly visible and worthy of celebration as we move through the period that is Matariki.
We pause to celebrate together and then we push on with our work, moving further into finishing works around the station platforms, the streets and of course, the station itself.
Ngā mihi o Matariki, te tau hou Māori from the team to all our Maungawhau neighbours.
If you have any questions about our work activities, don’t hesitate to get in touch with us at mteden@linkalliance.co.nz or 0800 CRL TALK press 5 for Maungawhau Station.
You can also follow Link Alliance’s progress by clicking the social media buttons below:
Ngā mihi,
The Maungawhau Station team.
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Maungawhau main site update
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After a long and complex civil works programme involving extensive excavation to upgrade and expand underground utilities, our crew have now transitioned into urban realm works.
Throughout the past month we have been completing the re-building of roads and footpaths on the streets that surround our site and the new streetscapes that link the new station with the community.
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Flower Street has returned to its straightened form, having been realigned for several years to accommodate the creation of the giant twin tunnel portal beneath.
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Ruru and Korari Streets will become vital accessways for train passengers, enabling taxis, rideshare and private vehicles to drop off and pick up using a one-way loop that sweeps into the station area, straight past the front entrance before exiting back toward New North Road up Ruru Street.
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A wintery sunrise over Maungawhau Station shines on the new roads and pathways that will connect the station with Uptown and support future development of the adjacent sites.
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Brand new streetlights light the way, guiding pedestrians up towards the hospitality hub of Eden Terrace, or back along the new shared pathway toward the Fenton and Porters Street Bridges that link the station with the extensive residential areas located between Dominion and Mt Eden Roads.
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Nikau Street, which runs parallel with New North Road and borders the station site will be a major thoroughfare for residents and visitors in the future.
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It’s not hard to see how enjoyable bike riding or walking along this new shared pathway will become for residents and visitors as they make their way in and out of the new station or venture into the heart of Uptown.
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Road markings have also been installed, bringing back some much-needed street parking to Uptown residents and visitors.
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Finishing touches and small fixes are all that is left to complete work within the streets. Expect to see our crews moving carefully about the area for another month or so while these targeted detailed works occur.
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Landscaping at the end of Ngahura Street is well underway and will tie-in nicely with the new shared cycle and pedestrian pathway.
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Bringing life into the space
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As the asphalting and concrete works near an end, the landscaping teams have appeared, bringing life, texture and colour into this new urban environment.
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Trees are planted at the foot of the Fenton Street Bridge with underplanting of shrubs and flaxes underway.
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Six majestic pōhutukawa now grace the new station frontage.
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These beautiful pōhutukawa specimens connect the new Maungawhau Station with the neighbouring Maungawhau mountain already ringed by a forest of pōhutukawa.
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The station is starting to look a lot like the original artist renders, proof that the construction work is getting very close to completion!
We’re almost ready for a ‘spot the difference’ challenge – although we are looking forward to seeing people moving about instead of those orange cones.
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An artist's vision of the new station and the Western Line overpass.
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The station building as it is now, June 2025.
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Landscaping and the installation of amenities such as seating and ticketing booths have been the focus of our work in and around the station frontage; now that the decorative concrete has been laid and finishing touches have been applied to deliver the final surface.
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The artist's impression of the station entry from Ruru Street.
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The same viewpoint, showing the station as it is today, with the roofline of the staircase to the CRL platform visible to the left of the picture.
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Wayfinding signage is next on the list to install, along with some more planting and finishing touches around the garden beds.
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Inside the station building and on the platforms, finishing details are well underway. From every viewpoint it’s becoming easier to visualise Maungawhau Station bustling with passengers coming and going.
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An inspiring view of the grand station foyer, skylight and waterwall with the escalators, lift and staircase ready to carry passengers up to the Western Line overpass in the distance.
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This level of progress is also clear and visible inside the tunnels themselves. This video showcases what it actually like to trave through the tunnels.
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There's very little difference between this footage captured by our test trains and the earlier digital modelling created at the very beginning of the project.
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Works coming up in the next few months will include checks and review across the wider roadworks and ensuring any final details are resolved.
We are also facilitating post-construction building checks at properties across Eden Terrace and coordinating the removal of the hundreds of monitoring equipment which have been dotted about the wider suburb tracking vibration and in some instances noise across the entire construction project.
Major visual changes around the site will be most noticeable along the Mt Eden Road frontage. The building structure at 85 Mt Eden Road is now ready to be fully demolished to ensure the land left is clear and ready for future development.
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The sunset colours of the building facade brought colour to the neighbourhood, its demolition will allow for future permanent development along Mt Eden Road.
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