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Albany busway station

Albany busway station

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Albany busway station is a bus station on Auckland's Northern Busway in New Zealand. It is located near Oteha Valley Road in the suburb of Albany.[1] It has shelters, electronic real-time information on each platform, and park and ride parking.[2] The busway lanes have extended to this station from the south since May 2022.

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The next station southbound is Constellation busway station. The next station northbound is Hibiscus Coast busway station, to which the busway lanes do not yet extend.

Buses travelling via Albany Station include double-decker buses serving the Northern Express NX1 and NX2 routes.[3]

History

The station, as well as the neighbouring Constellation Station, were the first stations to open as part of the Northern Busway project in November 2005. While the dedicated busway lanes of the Northern Busway themselves did not open until 2008, Albany was originally designed as an 'Offline' station that was not located directly on the busway as the other stations were.[4][5]

Park and ride

The usage of the park and ride facility and the number of carparks has long been a contentious issue. At opening, the station had 350 car parks with another 1,000 planned to be added to meet demand as needed.[6] However, by 2016, the capacity of the park and ride was insufficient to meet demand. The 1100 parking spaces were regularly filled up by 7:30 AM every day and, as a consequence, commuters who wanted to use the facility would try to find alternative locations to park - often places where it was illegal to park such as grass berms, walkways, and the middle of the road.[7][8]

Services

The following bus routes serve Albany station: NX1, NX2, 866, 83, 126, 861, 917, 986, 856, 865 and 889.[9]


References

  1. "SH1 Northern Busway". NZ Transport Agency.
  2. "More Double Deckers on Auckland Roads". Auckland Transport. Archived from the original on 30 July 2017. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
  3. "Northern Busway". 7 December 2006. Archived from the original on 7 December 2006. Retrieved 11 September 2022.
  4. "New Zealand's first Park & Ride bus stations open Sunday 04/10/05". 29 April 2008. Archived from the original on 29 April 2008. Retrieved 11 September 2022.
  5. "Northern Busway". 7 December 2006. Archived from the original on 7 December 2006. Retrieved 11 September 2022.
  6. Dillane, Tom (1 August 2016). "Auckland's Albany bus station reduced to muddy chaos with motorists parking where they like". Stuff. Retrieved 11 September 2022.
  7. Reid, Felicity (12 December 2017). "Illegal parking continues to plague Auckland's popular Albany bus station". Stuff. Retrieved 11 September 2022.
  8. "North Auckland Network Map" (PDF). Auckland Transport. Retrieved 20 April 2023.



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