Council decides future for eastern transport corridor

Auckland City’s council agreed the future direction of the eastern transport corridor at its meeting tonight.

The council has agreed a new brief for the transport corridor including: removing the roading component between the CBD and Glen Innes and developing the passenger transport components protecting the existing designations to retain the land for long term interests of the city investigating local road improvements in the south-eastern suburbs of the city (including Glen Innes, Panmure and Mt Wellington) to improve connections with State Highway 1 and the North Island Main Trunk Line confirming funding requirements and sources involving the Auckland Regional Transport Authority (ARTA) to lead passenger transport initiatives developing a new memorandum of understanding between Transit New Zealand, Manukau city and Auckland city councils and ARTA.

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