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New Lynn to Avondale Shared Path Newsletter July 2020 Artist’s impression of the underpass leading through into Chalmers Reserve from St Georges Road Welcome to the first newsletter for the New Lynn to Avondale Shared Path Project - a new walking and cycling route along the rail corridor between New Lynn and Avondale. Auckland Transport (AT) has partnered with the Whau Local PROJECT BENEFITS Board, Auckland Council and the NZ Transport Agency to build the A safer, more 2.9km shared path which will grow appealing route for pedestrians and our cycling network to connect people on bikes. communities and provide more access to safe cycling infrastructure. The project started earlier in the Similar shared Easier access pathway already in to local train stations and year and now after a short hiatus place in Auckland town centres with new thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, wayfinding signage. we are back underway! Read on to learn a bit more about the project, what it aims to achieve and where we are up to at this stage. Reduced traffic congestion and air pollution from vehicles. Designed with safety in mind with lighting and landscaping improvements. Sign Up! Keep up to date with our regular construction updates throughout the project. Just send an email to [email protected] with the subject ‘sign up’ J005695_17.07.20 New Lynn to Avondale Shared Path Newsletter Expanding our network As Auckland’s population grows, we need to provide more choices and find ways to make it easier and safer for people to walk or ride a bike in our city. We want to create a future where everyone feels comfortable riding a bike - we can only do this if there are safe, connected places making it easier for people of all ages, abilities and backgrounds to ride and walk – whether it be to school, work, the local shops, the Artist’s impression of the new shared path alongside the railway line. football grounds or to visit friends or family. The New Lynn to Avondale Shared Path will create a continuous walking and cycling link between New Lynn Train Station, Avondale Train Station, Waterview shared path, the Northwestern cycleway and city centre networks. The path will be mostly off-road and will cross the Whau River on a new purpose-built bridge (which will stand alongside the existing rail bridge) – now under construction as seen in the images to the right. It will also connect with the Te Whau Pathway, which follows the west side of the Whau River in Avondale, and other local WoodwardRd walking and cycling routes. S o u t h This map shows the location of the shared W New North Rd e s Allendale Rd t e r n pedestrian and cycle path and how it connects M o t o r Henry St w into other cycle paths in the local area a y Richardson Rd Anderson Park Grand Ave Preston Ave Walsall St Ennismore Rd Waterview shared path Hendon Ave Harlston Rd Rosebank Rd Blockhouse Bay Rd Bay Blockhouse Stewart Rd Range View Rd New North Rd Southwestern Murray Ash St Halberg Park shared path Avondale Bollard Ave St Jude St Alan Wood est T Reserve rg errace Avondale a S H Racecourse St Jude bridge o e uth Av Donegal St Donegal n Methuen Rd W ndo est He ern Mo tor way Ken Maunder Chalmers St Park Great North Rd New Windsor Rd Rizal Reserve Avondale St Georges Rd Georges St Te Whau Underpass Chalmers Binstead Rd Reserve Pathway Blockhouse Bay Rd Bay Blockhouse Rata St Portage Rd Reid Rd Saintly Ln Arran St Arran Veronica St Lansford Cres Rimu St Delta Ave Tiverton Rd Hugh Brown Dr Great North Rd Memorial Dr Nikau St Rata St Rd Georges St Pine St Ward St Ward Whau River bridge Miranda St Mcnaughton Way Totara Ave Olympic Puriri St Park T o Mccrae Way t Wolverton St Great North Rd ara A New Lynn ve Portage Rd Clark St Hetana St New Lynn Taylor St New Lynn to Avondale Arawa St Titirangi Rd Crowther St U shared path Fruitvale Rd l s Miranda PortageRd t e r Reserve Manawa Ambrico Pl R Wetland Crown Lynn Pl d Reserve Other shared path under Astley Ave Tahi Terrace construction or planned Skilgate Ave Rua Rd Margan Ave Rankin Ave Northall Rd Titirangi Rd Cycle facility Fruitvale Rd Westall Rd Dolan Pl Gardner Ave Seabrook Ave Northall Margan Ave Reserve Corydon Rd Willerton Ave Islington Ave Craigbank Ave Lawson Park Gardner Ave Seabrook Ave Hutchinson Ave Timeline As Auckland’s population grows, we need to provide more choices and find ways to make it easier and safer for people to walk or ride a bike in our city. NOV JAN FEB MAR OCT DEC EARLY 2019 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2022 Project awarded Site clearance First area works Works begin behind Works to begin at Underpass installation Works expected works begin open at Portage Road New Lynn RSA St Jude’s Street end planned (pending consents) to be complete Work progress update Time-lapse view of construction at the new Whau River Construction firm Dempsey Wood have been contracted to crossing near Portage Road. What you can see is the carry out the project, with work beginning earlier this year. new temporary staging bridge, which has been built to support the cranes in building the permanent new While there may have been delays to the project due to the bridge to the right – immediately next to the railway COVID-19 lock-down in March and April, the team have been bridge. The rusty-red tubes you see will create the pile working hard to get the project programme back on track. foundations for the new bridge. • A time-lapse camera, set up behind the Huckleberry store on Portage Road, shows huge progress on the new bridge Whau Bridge: 3.22pm 19/2/2020 across the Whau River tributary. • We are also working on the path extension behind the New Lynn RSA (opposite Lynn Mall) where the new path will connect directly opposite the New Lynn Rail Station. See the progress photograph over the page. • Over the coming months, work areas will be opening up on Veronica Street (New Lynn), St Georges Road (Avondale), in Chalmers Reserve and at/near Avondale Rail Station. • By late December , when works are expected to be in full-swing, our workforce will have swelled to around Whau Bridge: 4.00pm 12/6/2020 100 people. Artist’s impression of the completed Whau Bridge Works underway behind the New Lynn RSA on the corner of Hetana Street and Totara Avenue – undertaking the very first concrete pour as part of the Project in May 2020. Whau fish recovery Prior to starting any construction works in the vicinity of the Whau River tributary nearest our work site, our team undertook a recovery mission to recover and relocate native fish and eels. In January 2020, we set out with traps and electric fishing equipment to ‘sweep’ the waterway for fish life. In all, 120 creatures were found in the small area of stream around our work site. 23 banded kōkopu and 97 eels, including three juvenile short-fin eels, were located. These species are native to NZ’s ecosystem and a vital part of the healthy recovery of the Whau River system. The eels and fish were collected in buckets (as shown) and transported further along the river where they were released in a similar habitat which would be unaffected by any disruption of the tributary during works. For more information on the project visit: AT.govt.nz/projects-roadworks/new-lynn-to-avondale-shared-path. You can contact Auckland Transport on 09 355 3553 or email [email protected] J005695_17.07.20.