{"id":570931,"date":"2026-08-16T17:48:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T17:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/570931\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T17:48:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T17:48:16","slug":"city-rail-link-public-gets-first-look-inside-karanga-a-hape-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/570931\/","title":{"rendered":"City Rail Link: Public gets first look inside Karanga-a-Hape Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">The Maungawhau Station was opened to the public last weekend and Te Waihorotiu Station in Auckland\u2019s midtown area is open next weekend.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Ticket barrier at exit to Beresford Square. Photo \/ Alex Robertson\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Ticket barrier at exit to Beresford Square. Photo \/ Alex Robertson<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">Nicola Rae, visiting from Titirangi with her daughter, said the city felt vibrant and exciting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThere was a real community spirit,\u201d she said. \u201cIt definitely made me more likely to use the station.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe want people to use the City Rail Link. That\u2019s our next step. That\u2019s our next challenge,\u201d the Auckland Mayor said at an event to announce the opening of the new network, New Zealand\u2019s largest infrastructure project that cost $5.5 billion to build, a blowout of more than $2b on the original estimate.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Interchange tunnel underground. Photo \/ Alex Robertson\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Interchange tunnel underground. Photo \/ Alex Robertson<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">If he gets his wish, the CRL may start looking a lot more like London in the coming years, but let\u2019s hope that weather stays away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up to The Daily H<\/a>, a free newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Maungawhau Station was opened to the public last weekend and Te Waihorotiu Station in Auckland\u2019s midtown area&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":570932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2199,1888,6276,2944,48623,13840,58,1619,13457,663,111,43,139,69,3109,207,3048,54111,13655],"class_list":["post-570931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-city","tag-first","tag-gets","tag-inside","tag-karangaahape","tag-like","tag-link","tag-london","tag-look","tag-looks","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-public","tag-rail","tag-said","tag-somebody","tag-station"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570931","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=570931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}