Updates on Takanini-Addison Area

Written by Ben Ross - Talking Auckland

Papakura Local Board pushes ahead

 

A fellow local in the Papakura Local Board area has been busy with enquiries to the Mayoral Office over a number of projects in the Takanini-Addison area. These include the Glenora Road Station, the Takanini Library, Porchester Road, Walters Road including grade separation of the hazardous level crossing which has claimed too many lives as is. All projects I have covered in Talking Auckland and submissions one way or the other.

Below is some correspondence from the Mayor’s Office on some of the projects in the area:

 

Some interesting thoughts on what is going on. Also some conflicting issues as well (wouldn’t be the first either) especially around Takanini Library and Glenora Road Station.

While I have blogged on the matter that Glenora Road Station is considered dead in the water (see: Glenora Road Station Dead in the Water) it seems from the Papakura Local Board meeting set for this month, they are going to push on with Glenora Road Station once the Local Board Plan is adopted next week.

Papakura Local Board Meeting – October – See from Page 183

From the above it seems we have confusion on where the station should be going. Auckland Transport thinks the station should be right by the Walters Road crossing which seems pretty daft. I thought the station would be on the northern side of the Takanini Village complex – opposite to where Glenora Road actually ends as the picture below shows:

Glenora Road Station, Park and Ride, and Bus Interchange
Glenora Road Station, Park and Ride, and Bus Interchange

Takanini Station would be closed and the feeder buses in the new network from next year would be altered to feed into the new Glenora Road Station from both the east and west side of the tracks. As I have said before Glenroa Road Station has the best maximum catchment for for passengers compared to Takanini and the proposed re-opening of the Tironui Station options AT are floating with.

 

Anyhow from the correspondence it seems it is all go down here – if we get the money from the Governing Body via the 2015-2025 Long Term Plan.

The catch is will the Governing Body come through on their end of the deal. From what we are seeing in deferrals, land selling, and general errors with financial planning right now we might be in for a rough road yet over the next nine months.