{"id":562274,"date":"2026-08-07T23:48:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T23:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/562274\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T23:48:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T23:48:16","slug":"city-rail-link-first-look-events-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/562274\/","title":{"rendered":"City Rail Link &#8216;First Look&#8217; events begin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">On Saturday morning, Aucklanders will have a chance to see inside the City Rail Link (CRL) for the first time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">A series of &#8216;First Look&#8217; events will be held over the next three Saturdays.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">It will begin with Maungawhau Station (formerly Mt Eden), with a free, one-hour tour from 8am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">There will be food and activities in the surrounding streets, as well as busking and community performances inside the train station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">&#8220;This striking new station combines world-class transport infrastructure with thoughtful design inspired by the surrounding volcanic landscape and deep cultural connections to nearby maunga,&#8221; Auckland Transport&#8217;s website said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">&#8220;Its dramatic architecture, natural materials and spacious platforms create a station experience unlike anything else in Auckland.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Saturday morning, Aucklanders will have a chance to see inside the City Rail Link (CRL) for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":562275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-562274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}