Drury’s community pushes for Train Station

Papakura Courier on the 5^th of May reported the campaign being led by a 12-year-old girl for Drury to have a train station. Papakura Courier has reported that the campaign has the support of over 300 people who have signed the petition asking Auckland Council and its local board for a train station in Drury.

The Southern rail line does go past Drury every time the train service ends at Pukekohe. In my personal opinion I find it strange that the train does not stop in Drury seeing that it goes past the township during the special services through Pukekohe. Pukekohe train services only run 10 times a day from Monday to Friday from Pukekohe to Britomart and only 9 times from Britomart to Pukekohe during the weekdays. This would not make a significant difference to the running of the train if a stop were to be built in Drury because only services that headed to and returning from Pukekohe would be effected. The significant cost would come from building the train station.

Source: New Zealand rail maps, 2011.
Drury is located in between Papakura and Pukekohe the map is from 2005 as you can see the number of services daily has increase significantly from 4 per day to 19.

I support the idea of having a station from Drury because it gives people living out in the rural areas of Auckland an alternative choice to driving. It would also support Auckland’s move towards public transportation. Auckland Council should support this campaign if they want to actualize their vision.


Reference:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/papakura-courier/4960722/Greers-station-campaign