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The tunnel excavation for Auckland's City Rail Link finally began under the Britomart station – just as the magnitude of the $ 3.4 billion project was expected to be expanded.
Sean Sweeney, General Manager of City Rail Link Ltd. Trench for the new railway lines under Britomart and Lower Queen St followed two years of "careful preparatory work to protect the historic building from the position of Chief of Britomart Station".
Downer-Soletanche Bachy will remove a five-meter layer of soil from Lower Queen Street, then dig a single 25-meter-wide trench at Lower Queen St and two 10-meter-wide trenches under the station building. Here the middle of the year 2019.
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Meanwhile, Auckland Council members held a workshop closed today for disc uter of a proposal from the rail link company to lengthen the docks in new subway stations and to open a new access from Beresford Square to Karangahape Rd. The extra work, which should add additional Hundreds of millions of dollars at a cost of $ 3.4 billion from the project would make room for trains of nine cars from three to six cars. The trains planned up to now, increasing the capacity of the line from 36,000 passengers per hour to 54,000.
Union Counselor Richard Hills blamed the previous national government for not planning longer trains and two entries at station K Rd, tweeting: the last council / government cancels Beresford station. "
But the National Party Transportation spokesman, Jami-Lee Ross, said that the Council of Auckland did not formally propose the expanded plan to the Government before the election of last year
Ross said that he did not have access to new projections showing that the new rail line could reach capacity if the scheme was not extended by 2035, 10 years earlier than planned, but it was open
"We are in a wait-and-see mode we will not oppose everything to oppose it, "he said.
"It is proven that it works" I think it is important that they are transparent with the information and that they are open to taxpayers and taxpayers who end up paying for it. "
Ministries of Labor Transportation Phil Twyford agreed with the principle that the new railway line should be able to cope with the growth passengers without having to close it shortly after the doors were opened
. The Cabinet approves the expansion
The railway liaison company is half owned by the Government and the Auckland Council and the line is to be completed by 2024.
