75-587: CBD Rail Link may refer to: City Rail Link , an under development rail tunnel in Auckland, New Zealand Redfern to Chatswood railway line , a proposed rail link in Sydney, Australia CBD Relief Line , a similar proposed rail link in Sydney, Australia See also [ edit ] CBD (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
150-520: A 3.5 km (2.2 mi) tunnel between Britomart and Mount Eden, beneath Albert Street and including underground stations near Wellesley Street and Karangahape Road, with the Wellesley Street station, 18 m (59 ft 1 in) under the surface, potentially being larger and seeing more passengers than Britomart (projections of up to 7,700 per peak hour). By October 2008 ONTRACK said that it had reached an agreement in principle with
225-559: A Hape' be accepted, and altered to 'Karanga-a-Hape' in keeping with national and te reo Māori orthographic standards; that the unofficial name 'Mount Eden' be discarded, and replaced by an official dual name, 'Maungawhau / Mount Eden'. In March 2023, the NZGB announced the decisions made by the Minister for Land Information Damien O'Connor . Te Wai Horotiu and Karanga a Hape were changed to Te Waihorotiu and Karanga-a-Hape respectively, as per
300-522: A crushing defeat by Sullivan. As Minister of Public Health , Russell was held responsible by large parts of the population for New Zealand's unpreparedness for the 1918 flu epidemic . Compared to the 1914 election, Sullivan's share of the vote increased by more than 27 percentage points. He represented the Avon electorate in the House of Representatives for 28 years from 1919 to 1947. From 1921 to 1935, he
375-531: A decision was made to lengthen the platforms so as to incorporate the Beresford Square entrance from the outset. Demolition of buildings on Mercury Lane began on 4 November 2019. Demolition at this site will be done in two phases, with completion expected in April 2020. Demolition of buildings at the Beresford Square site was expected to take three years. In October 2019, demolition of 30 buildings in
450-481: A ground option as well. In 2004, Auckland City Council prepared preliminary plans for an underground railway connecting Britomart Transport Centre to the Western Line in the vicinity of Mount Eden railway station and incorporating three new stations: near Aotea Square, Karangahape Road and the top of Symonds Street. The project would bring most of the city centre within a short walk of a station and increase
525-511: A loop connecting with Newmarket as part of a major rapid transit scheme proposed by Dove-Myer Robinson , mayor of Auckland City at the time. Two main stations were proposed: one downtown in the vicinity of the Queen Street / Shortland Street intersection, and a second midtown between Queen St and Mayoral Drive, about halfway between Aotea Square and Albert Park. A third city station was to be built at Karangahape Rd, but this would have been
600-474: A period of two years with several intersections along the street being closed for up to 18 months. The Department of Corrections also expressed concern that grade-separating the Normanby Road level crossing (as part of the cut and cover works at the southern end of the project) would cut off access to Mount Eden Prisons . On 7 April 2015, two construction consortia were awarded the contracts to start
675-535: A relief fund to ease peoples' distress. He interviewed thousands of constituents and would frequently help them on a personal level. When Labour won the 1935 general election and Sullivan took on the heavy workload of a cabinet minister, he reluctantly resigned from the mayoralty in February 1936. He was succeeded as mayor by John Beanland of the Citizens' Association. In the 1919 election , Russell suffered
750-399: A revised business case, requested by the government. In July 2012, as part of the works around designating the route, Auckland Council released footprints for four stations. This included designation space for a not previously considered station on the current Western Line, just west of Dominion Road. This station would serve as an interchange station for passengers wanting to travel east in
825-584: A stop on the western line only. The plan was undermined by Council staff, criticised by academics and opposed by the New Zealand Town Planning Institute, before finally being rejected in 1976 by the Muldoon National government, which considered it to be too costly. An alternative plan was put forward by Auckland City Council planners in 1979, involving an overhead railway from the then Beach Road railway station to
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#1732780815435900-444: A terminus station into a through station, and Mount Eden station will be replaced by Maungawhau station, a new station with four platforms to serve as an interchange between the new CRL line and the existing Western Line . The current project is an adapted version of previous proposals to improve rail access to Auckland's city centre with the first proposals dating back to the 1920s. The increase in rail patronage in Auckland during
975-518: Is a rail project currently under construction in Auckland , New Zealand. The project consists of a 3.5 km (2.2 mi) long double-track rail tunnel underneath Auckland's city centre, between Waitematā (Britomart) and Maungawhau (Mount Eden) railway stations. Two new underground stations will be constructed to serve the city centre : Te Waihorotiu near Aotea Square and Karanga-a-Hape near Karangahape Road . Waitematā will be converted from
1050-481: Is assumed for the benefit calculation. In this regard, Council experts have highlighted that NZ calculation methods use a 30-year cut-off (i.e. for evaluation purposes, the tunnel provides no benefit after 30 years, even though much of Auckland's earlier rail and road infrastructure already serves for much longer than that). In comparison, if using evaluation periods of 50 years (used in Australia), or 60 years (used in
1125-690: Is expected that 2 million tonnes of spoil will be dug out from 2020 and it has been proposed to use it to double the single track section of the North Island Main Trunk line across Whangamarino wetland . Some landowners around Albert Street, including the Ministry of Justice which owns and operates the Auckland District Court on Albert Street, expressed concern that construction of the cut and cover tunnel would disrupt foot and vehicular traffic along Albert Street over
1200-606: The 1905 election campaign, Sullivan heard a speech by Jim Thorn inspiring to join the Independent Political Labour League (IPLL). By the next election in 1908 , he was the president of the IPLL and stood as their candidate for the Avon seat. He came fourth out of five candidates in the first ballot . The 1908 election was won by George Warren Russell , who would later become a cabinet minister, and
1275-768: The Khyber Pass Road /Newton Rd intersection and the New North Rd/Mt Eden Rd intersection), at an estimated cost range of $ 1 billion to $ 1.5 billion. In May 2011 the Government noted that after reviewing an initial business case for the project, it was unconvinced of the economic benefits of the tunnel. Minister of Transport Steven Joyce noted that he would not stand in the way of Auckland continuing planning and route designation work – if Auckland paid for it. In June 2011 Auckland Council voted to approve $ 2 million for planning and route protection for
1350-648: The Mount Eden railway station to central Auckland as part of the City Rail Link. The TBM was named after Māori leader Dame Whina Cooper . On 14 September 2022 the TBM Dame Whina Cooper broke through into the station box of Te Waihorotiu Station, completing the second of the two tunnels needed for the project. Tracklaying was then commenced by Martinus Rail , who use battery-electric locomotives based at Quay Park junction. In 2023, it
1425-552: The New Zealand Geographic Board Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa (NZGB) for recognition. In August 2022, the Board returned the following verdicts: that the unofficial name 'Britomart' be altered to a new official name, 'Waitematā'; that the suggestion of 'Te Wai Horotiu' be accepted, and altered to 'Te Waihorotiu' in keeping with national and te reo Māori orthographic standards; that the suggestion of 'Karanga
1500-566: The Newmarket Line and CRL, doubling back upon itself as far as Ōtāhuhu station . The Onehunga Line ceases to run into the city, instead heading west from Newmarket as a crosstown line. The 'Onehunga and Western Line' will initially terminate at Maungawhau/Mt Eden station , before being extended to Henderson at an undisclosed future date. A Southern Express service to Pukekohe via the Eastern line may also operate. This operating pattern
1575-611: The Thames Embankment ). Sullivan would later maintain that a determination to prevent the kind of poverty he had witnessed abroad strongly influenced his political career as was an aim to emulate the dedication of British trade unionists that he had met. In addition to Britain he visited Northern Ireland , working for a time in the Belfast shipyards, and North America as well before returning to Christchurch after four years. He resumed his union activities upon his return and
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#17327808154351650-574: The cut-and-cover method, 15 metres (49 ft) deep under Albert Street. As originally planned, it will be 300 metres (980 ft) long and run between Victoria Street and Wellesley Street. This station will be 32 metres (105 ft) underground. Original plans were for platforms 150 metres (490 ft) long. There will be an entrance on Mercury Lane, with early plans making provision for an entrance that would be added later on Beresford Square. Assessments of passenger numbers in 2018 indicated that longer trains and platforms would be needed earlier, and
1725-618: The "low hundreds of millions" and would prevent a costly future two-year closure if the platform lengthening retrofitting work was carried out after the CRL was opened. In May 2022, the stations were gifted names by the CRL Mana Whenua Forum. These reflected the area's Māori history: Waitematā for Britomart, Te Wai Horotiu for Aotea, Karanga a Hape for Karangahape, and Maungawhau for Mt. Eden. Together with Auckland Transport, City Rail Link Ltd submitted these suggested names to
1800-424: The 'Morningside Tunnel' or the 'Morningside Deviation', after the proposed southern portal location – would cost approximately £1 million, with another £1 million required for the electrification of the network. He expressed doubts that the tunnel would ever pay purely from a rail point of view, though he acknowledged that there might be other benefits and wider aspects to take into account. The 1970s plans envisaged
1875-556: The 10-year anniversary of the opening of the Britomart Transport Centre , it was announced that Auckland Council and the new owners of the Downtown Shopping Centre had agreed to discuss building a section of tunnel under the mall during a redevelopment planned for 2016–17. The section would be up to 100 metres long. On 1 August 2014, Auckland Transport announced a significant design change to
1950-699: The Board's recommendations. Britomart was also changed, to officially become Waitematā railway station. Breaking with the Board's recommendation, the Minister made the decision for the Mount Eden station to be called 'Maungawhau' only, not to have a dual name of 'Maungawhau / Mount Eden' as the board suggested. One of the most contentious aspects of the CRL is whether it is economically sensible to build it. The results vary widely depending on whether certain ancillary projects are included, whether one assumes economic benefits outside purely transport effects (such as increased land value) and depending on what length of time
2025-534: The Britomart bus station (today, site of Waitematā railway station). Auckland Mayor Sir Dove-Myer Robinson noted the central government had just spent $ 33 million for new Wellington suburban trains (the EM class Ganz-Mavag units ) and the overhead railway scheme would "cost considerably less while providing a far greater potential." The Auckland Regional Authority supported the plan, although wanted to see more work done on
2100-699: The City Rail Link is expected to be completed in late 2025, with passenger services operating from 2026. In mid January 2024, Minister of Transport Simeon Brown confirmed that the National-led coalition government would continue work on the City Rail Link despite its policy of discontinuing the Auckland Light Rail project. In early November 2024, Transport Minister Brown and Deputy Mayor of Auckland Desley Simpson announced that Auckland's passenger rail network would be shut down between 25 December and 26 January to facilitate upgrades ahead of
2175-417: The City Rail Link's completion. Brown and Simpson also confirmed that there would be a total of 96 days in Auckland without an operational train service over the next 13 months, with closures occurring during holidays, weekends and evenings. The City Rail Link was constructed using both cut-and-cover and tunnel boring machine (TBM) methods depending on the location of construction. The ground through which
2250-676: The Newmarket direction, in case the tunnel was built without an "Eastern Link" at the southern end that would allow trains exiting it to turn east. The station was later dropped by Auckland Transport and the "Eastern Link" retained in the route protection documents. In June 2013, the central government announced its support for the project, albeit with a later construction start date of 2020 rather than 2015. The government stated it would consider an earlier start date if Auckland's CBD employment and rail patronage growth hit thresholds faster than projected rates of growth. On 8 July 2013, following
2325-647: The UK), the total project benefits for the city rail link have been estimated as up to 6 times higher than with the 30-year time frame. The "City Centre Future Access Study" (CCFAS) was prepared by Auckland Transport and released in December 2012. The CCFAS analysed a number of different ways of improving access to Auckland's city centre and concluded that the CRL was essential, noting that bus-only investment will provide for short-term benefits but in some cases will be 'worse than doing nothing' for private vehicle travel times in
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2400-408: The capacity of Auckland's rail network when the rail link opens, the main benefit posed by the project. In September 2016, the government formally confirmed its intention to fund its proposed share of 50% of the City Rail Link. The cost of the City Rail Link was then re-estimated to be between $ 2.8 and $ 3.4 billion, subject to tenders for remaining contracts. In mid-April 2019, it was revealed that
2475-402: The city centre. Brown also strongly supported the tunnel, and further, a rail connection to Auckland Airport , as part of a package of measures to double public transport patronage within 15 years. New Zealand's transport minister in 2010, Steven Joyce , warned Aucklanders not to engage in wishful thinking. The Minister's comments regarding the City Rail Link (and other rail investment), set in
2550-589: The context of the government's focus on delivering Roads of National Significance , has been considered politically risky – going against widespread opinion in Auckland that was in favour of better public transport. After ongoing and sustained lobbying by Brown to get central government support, the nickname "Len's loop" developed. In March 2010, KiwiRail/ARTA selected a preferred route with three stations: "Aotea" (beneath Albert St between Victoria Street and Wellesley St), "K Road" (beneath Pitt St adjacent to Karangahape Rd) and "Newton" (beneath upper Symonds St between
2625-504: The cost of the project had risen by more than $ 1 billion to $ 4.419 billion. In 2023, CRL announced the cost of the project was now estimated to be $ 5.493bn. In February 2012, Auckland Council published the following proposed project timeline for the City Rail Link: This timeline will not be adhered to, as completion was rescheduled to 2024. CRL Chief Executive, Dr Sean Sweeney stated on the CRL website in late 2021 that
2700-560: The council to be lent to prospective homeowners' mortgages. From 1927 to 1930, he chaired the finance committee. In 1931, he was elected Mayor of Christchurch on his second attempt. As mayor, Sullivan dedicated his time to alleviating poverty in Christchurch during the depression as well as maintaining order. Nevertheless, violent unrest occurred, which peaked during the 1932 Christchurch tramway strike , which Sullivan struggled to resolve. He networked widely in order to raise money for
2775-534: The cut and cover tunnels under and along Albert St from Customs St to Wyndham St. The work started in October 2015 with the relocation of a major stormwater line in Albert St between Swanson and Wellesley Sts. Construction of these sections of the city rail link tunnels will coincide with Precinct Properties redevelopment of the Downtown Shopping Centre site, due to open by mid-2019. The Downtown Shopping Centre
2850-476: The deputy leader Peter Fraser . Afterwards he was ranked third in the cabinet. As a result of his ranking, he was Acting Prime Minister from April to July 1944 while Fraser and Walter Nash were overseas. He carried a "punishing workload" during the war, which almost certainly contributed to his health declining from the mid-1940s. Sullivan died in Wellington of coronary disease on 8 April 1947. His body
2925-574: The development of new industries but was often frustrated by limited progress. He also oversaw exchange controls particularly due to wartime shortages, but this opened new opportunities to develop a broader range of manufacturing industry in New Zealand, which Sullivan enthusiastically took advantage of. He was ranked fourth in the cabinet until Savage's death in 1940. With the leadership vacant, Sullivan gave serious consideration to standing to succeed Savage as leader, but eventually decided to support
3000-427: The early 21st century, particularly after the opening of Britomart Transport Centre in 2003, led to renewed interest in the scheme. The 2012 Auckland Spatial Plan highlighted the CRL as the most important transport investment for Auckland and the project has enjoyed strong public support. Its planning and funding have also been the subject of controversy. In June 2013, the central government announced its support for
3075-521: The east–west junctions, meaning that rail lines would not need to cross each other. The Mount Eden CRL platforms would now be built in an open-air trench, similar to that at New Lynn station . On 27 January 2016, Prime Minister John Key announced in a speech to the Auckland Chamber of Commerce that central government funding for main works construction of the CRL had been confirmed and this would allow Auckland Council to start to construct
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3150-439: The effects of Covid are "highly likely (to mean) there will be significant consequences for the project in terms of cost and completion" and these would become clearer late 2022 or early 2023. In 2023, the Minister of Transport, Michael Wood , said the construction by CRL should be finished by November 2025, but the project is then handed over to Auckland Transport and KiwiRail which has CRL-related work to complete. As of 2023,
3225-473: The first construction phase of the city rail link. Construction of the early works package between Britomart and Wyndham Street started in October 2015. The Downer joint venture ( Downer NZ and Soletanche Bachy) was chosen to design the rail link work through and under Waitematā Station and Queen St to Precinct Properties' Downtown Shopping Centre site, and construction started in early 2016. The Connectus consortium ( McConnell Dowell and Hawkins) will construct
3300-555: The founding of the Christchurch Journalists' Union. He also became a regular speaker on weekends in Cathedral Square , giving him a higher profile and cementing his position as a moderate in the labour movement, both in his approach and positions. He favoured the industrial arbitration system over strike action and advocated for state ownership as a means to improve business and living conditions. During
3375-486: The local Citizens' Defence Corps. He was a member of the Christchurch City Council between 1915 and 1923, when he unsuccessfully stood for the mayoralty. He was a member again from 1925 to 1931 and during the 1927–29 term was deputy mayor . A popular candidate, he topped the poll in four elections. He was chair of the council's housing committee, where he formulated a scheme to allocate funds from
3450-556: The longer term. In July 2013, the Transport Agency's board agreed that transport projects were to be assessed for a 40-year evaluation period, but also reduced the discount rate from 8% to 6%. The key benefits of the City Rail Link are intended to be: A study conducted in 2018, suggests that the City Rail Link will improve the accessibility to economic opportunities for people in the more deprived regions of south, east and west Auckland. An estimated cost of $ 2.86 billion
3525-412: The main works from 2018, with central funds guaranteed to flow from 2020. Commentary at the time reflected an opinion that this was a belated agreement to central government funding of the project by the ruling National Party , while the main opposition parliamentary parties ( Labour Party , Greens and NZ First ) had all been promising immediate construction timetables which were more closely aligned to
3600-504: The number of people living within a 30-minute train trip of the city centre by around 370,000. The decision to electrify Auckland's rail network brought the tunnel back into focus as the key next step for developing Auckland's rail network. Estimates for the project's cost were around NZ$ 1.5 billion (or up to $ 2.4 billion according to other estimates), taking 12–16 years to plan and build. On 5 March 2008, Auckland Regional Transport Authority (ARTA) announced preliminary planning for
3675-635: The owners of Westfield Downtown (later rebranded as Downtown Shopping Centre ) to allow the tunnel route to thread through the foundations of a proposed redevelopment of the site. In 2009 and 2010, the discussion on the future tunnel gained much more prominence, with both candidates for the Mayoralty of the new Auckland Council , John Banks and Len Brown , making the tunnel part of their election platforms. Banks noted that it attracted cost-benefit returns much higher than many similar-sized roading projects, and would provide much enhanced, integrated access to
3750-411: The plans of the council. On 30 June 2017, Finance Minister Steven Joyce and Transport Minister Simon Bridges signed agreements with Auckland Mayor Phil Goff that established City Rail Link Limited (CRLL). Effective 1 July 2017, the company assumed responsibility for delivering the City Rail Link. Mr Joyce said that it was crucial that there be a single joint entity running the project and that CRLL
3825-480: The project with a construction commencement date of 2020, four years later than Auckland Council 's preferred start date of 2016. Prime Minister John Key announced in January 2016 that central government funding for the project had been confirmed, allowing Auckland Council to start construction of the main works from 2018, with central funds guaranteed to flow from 2020. Preliminary stages of construction, including
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#17327808154353900-450: The project, dropping the underground Newton Station in favour of a significant upgrade to Mount Eden station. This change would save construction costs of $ 124 million, require fewer properties to be bought by Auckland Transport and in the long term save operational costs, with total savings being over $ 150 million. In addition, the change would allow Mount Eden station to be connected to the CRL, which previously bypassed it, and would separate
3975-525: The redeveloped Downtown Shopping Centre and into Waitematā. The public got a look inside the tunnels in November 2019. In 2023, the government confirmed a date of 2025 for construction. At this point the project is handed over to Auckland Transport and it will be up to Auckland Transport and KiwiRail to announce when their CRL-related work will be finished. The line was mainly bored through East Coast Bays Formation of sandstones and siltstones . It
4050-488: The relocation of stormwater infrastructure and tunnelling in the vicinity of the Commercial Bay redevelopment, began in 2016. The City Rail Link is scheduled for completion in 2026. Serious planning schemes occurred as early as the 1920s. The tunnel was initially estimated at 1.75 miles (2.82 km) length and at £0.6 million. In 1936, Dan Sullivan the Minister of Railways argued that the scheme – then known as
4125-497: The title CBD Rail Link . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=CBD_Rail_Link&oldid=1211146507 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages City Rail Link The City Rail Link ( CRL )
4200-577: The trade union movement following the influence of a foreman who was active in the Christchurch United Furniture Trades Union (CUFTU). Aged 16 he became secretary of the committee organising the union's annual picnic (his first elected office) and briefly was a delegate of the union to the Canterbury Trades and Labour Council. He travelled to London in 1900 after completing his apprenticeship. His trip
4275-456: The trains are capable of having extra cars added in groups of three, the CRL station platforms, as originally specified, would not be long enough to accommodate nine-car trains. The proposed new capacity is 54,000 passengers per hour with the station platforms to be made longer so they can take the longer trains, and for an entry to be built at Beresford Square to complement Karanga a Hape station 's Mercury Lane entrance. The extra cost could run to
4350-423: The tunnel, with Auckland Transport , rather than KiwiRail, undertaking the process. In March 2012, Auckland Council decided to bring forward spending from the 2012–2013 budget, in order to continue progress protecting the eventual route. $ 6.3 million was spent on work including geotechnical surveys, utility and building assessments, contaminated site reports and rail operations modelling and $ 1.7m towards providing
4425-613: The tunnels were built varies between rock and soft soil, and with a variation in depth to natural ground level of between 40 metres and 0 metres. Cut and cover construction occurred around the existing Mount Eden railway station and in the suburb of Eden Terrace , forming the junction of the City Rail Link to the North Auckland Line . North of the junction, twin bored tunnels then extend as far as Mayoral Drive. Another section of cut and cover tunnel then extends north underneath Albert Street, before turning east to head underneath
4500-592: The vicinity of this station began. This first stage of three phases of demolition is expected to be completed in March 2020. While the train network for the period following the completion of the CRL has not been officially confirmed, Auckland Transport has released a preliminary plan. The plan proposes that the Western and Eastern Lines be connected through the CRL, and the Southern Line loops anticlockwise around
4575-570: Was Labour's senior whip. During the 1920s, Sullivan and James McCombs led the opposition to Harry Holland within the Parliamentary Labour Party caucus. In 1923, he unsuccessfully challenged Holland for the leadership himself, and stood for the deputy leadership subsequently as well, but lost to Michael Joseph Savage 11 votes to 16. In 1935, Sullivan was awarded the King George V Silver Jubilee Medal . Sullivan
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#17327808154354650-598: Was a New Zealand Member of Parliament , Cabinet Minister and Mayor of Christchurch . Sullivan was born in Waltham , Christchurch on 18 July 1882. His parents were the Irish-born labourer and carter Florance (Flurence) Sullivan and Mary Dow who was from Scotland. The Sullivans were a large family and rather poor, resulting in Sullivan selling newspapers to financially assist his family. Due to this, his formal education
4725-646: Was a leading Cabinet Minister in the First Labour Government of New Zealand . He was appointed by Prime Minister Michael Joseph Savage as the Minister of Industries and Commerce between 1935 and 1947, Minister of Railways from 1935 to 1941 and was later the high-profile wartime Minister of Supply and Munitions. Sullivan had always been a vocal advocate for expanding manufacturing in New Zealand and his role as Minister of Industries and Commerce allowed him to put his ideas into practice. He encouraged
4800-481: Was closed on 28 May 2016 and by 23 November had been demolished. It will be replaced with a 36-storey skyscraper which will include a new shopping centre in the lower levels. Auckland Council and proprietors Precinct Properties struck a deal to include tunnels for the City Rail Link directly underneath the premises. In early December 2020, Mayor of Auckland Phil Goff unveiled a massive tunnel boring machine that would be used to drill two 1.6 km long tunnels from
4875-466: Was cut short at age 11 but not before passing proficiency. Regardless, he continued to self-educate and voraciously read on a wide range of topics, but particularly biographies and social history. He was particularly influenced by the ideas of German land nationalisation advocate Michael Flürscheim , but also closely read Henry George and Karl Marx . After one year working in a market garden he then became an apprentice french polisher . Sullivan joined
4950-643: Was elected president of the United Federation of Labour . Through his experiences he became consummate at arguing cases under the industrial conciliation and arbitration system. In 1912 he began writing for the Lyttelton Times on matters of labour issues. He expanded his newspaper contributions and became a journalist between 1915 and 1920 with the Christchurch Sun and published "Dan Sullivan's Magazine" in 1919. He contributed to
5025-795: Was first hinted at in early 2022 in the Auckland Light Rail group's Indicative Business Case appendices, which showed a proposed but discarded Airport heavy rail option where half of all Western Line services diverted from Avondale to Auckland Airport via Onehunga. In June 2023, this operating pattern was confirmed in the draft Regional Public Transport Plan 2023–2031. The Southern Line and Western and Eastern Line will each likely run every 15 minutes all-day, increasing to every 7.5 minutes at peak times. The Onehunga and Western Line and Southern Express Line will each likely run every 30 minutes all-day. Dan Sullivan (New Zealand politician) Daniel Giles Sullivan (18 July 1882 – 8 April 1947)
5100-673: Was in 1912 considered a possible successor of Joseph Ward as leader of the Liberal Party . Sullivan joined the New Zealand Labour Party , which superseded the IPLL in 1910, and stood as its candidate for the Riccarton electorate in 1911 . A year later, Sullivan was appointed secretary of the first of the Labour Unity Conferences that would form the moderate United Labour Party (ULP). He
5175-763: Was later part of the faction of the ULP that joined the Social Democratic Party (SDP) after the second of the unity conferences. He then served as a member of the Christchurch strike committee during the Great Strike of 1913. In 1914 , he contested Avon again as the SDP candidate but was again unsuccessful. During World War I he opposed conscription though he served on the executive of the Christchurch Patriotic Committee and on
5250-478: Was made under the guise of improving his techniques as a polisher, but he also visited places he had read about and wished to learn more about trade unions. Along the way Sullivan sold furniture that he had hand made himself door to door across Australia to help fund his trip to Britain. Upon arriving in Britain he was shocked by the levels of poverty he witnessed (at one stage himself reduced to sleeping outside on
5325-517: Was often quoted for the project, but this cost was inflated out to the year of construction. The cost of the project in 2010 was $ 2.311 billion. That price also included not only the tunnel link with three stations (a deep-level Newton station was later dropped), but additional trains, duplication of the Onehunga Branch to two tracks and other small improvements to Auckland's rail network. These additional items are intended to further increase
5400-422: Was owned jointly by central and local government. Budget 2017 allocated $ 436 million to the City Rail Link project. As planned, the CRL's underground rail lines will have a capacity of 36,000 passengers per hour. That figure was expected to be reached in 2045. In July 2018, revised projections by City Rail Link Ltd (CRLL) showed the 36,000 capacity will be reached by 2035 – just 10 years after it opens. Although
5475-474: Was reported that the effects of COVID-19 , high inflation and staffing issues had increased the cost of the project by $ 1 billion to $ 5.493 billion. The opening of the project would also be delayed to the end of 2025 at the earliest. Following completion of the CRL, some trains will no longer terminate at Waitematā. Platforms 1 and 5 will be the through platforms, while platforms 2, 3 and 4 will remain terminating platforms. This station will be constructed by
5550-608: Was taken to Christchurch and lay in state in the Civic Theatre visited by crowds of thousands, and a large crowd attended his funeral. Sullivan Avenue in the Christchurch suburb of Woolston was named in Sullivan's honour in 1929. Sullivan Park in Avonside was named for him in 1948. He married Daisy Ethel Webster on 23 November 1905. Despite Sullivan being a staunch Roman Catholic , the pair were married in Merivale at
5625-587: Was to hold many positions in the union movement over the succeeding years. He became both the president and secretary of the CUFTU, French Polishers' Union and New Zealand Federated Furniture Trade Union. He was first vice president, from 1908 to 1910, and president, in 1911, of the Canterbury Trades and Labour Council. He was a member of the Dominion executive of the Trades and Labour Councils' Federation and in 1914, he
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