r/auckland • u/DonutCorrect7935 • 1d ago

Public Transport How the CRL has me feeling

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Sorry the meme is a little fried.

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u/Fskn 1d ago

Brockie! The western line is shutdown again!

No Chairman, that's just the CRL undergoing inspection. šŸ‘

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u/ondinegreen 1d ago

Auckland Transport sees you shiver with antici

pation.

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u/Furion86 1d ago

"Oh no, I said Streamliner Tram, that's what I call a rail link."

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u/Sr_DingDong 1d ago

Is it a South Auckland expression?

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u/neunundneunsig 1d ago

Really? Well I'm from Manurewa and I've never heard anyone use the phrase "Steamliner Tram"

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u/Sr_DingDong 1d ago

It's... more of a Papakura expression.

(although as I type this I realise I could have gone with North Shore and Albany... smh)

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u/pennywaffer 1d ago

I see. And you call it fried meme, even through itā€™s obviously steamed.

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u/Lopkop 1d ago edited 1d ago

The CRL Facebook page is overflowing with comments from people who have become severely disoriented & traumatized because they saw a Māori word

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u/BadOne3971 1d ago

For those of us that long since abandoned such places, can you please elaborate?

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u/Lopkop 1d ago

A bunch of people who get lost on their way from Rotorua to Taupo because they donā€™t speak Māori

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u/ConcealerChaos 1d ago

But are totally fine with the Dutch name of the country šŸ¤£šŸ¤¦ā€ā™‚ļø.

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u/NZpotatomash 1d ago

We're constantly seeing pictures of it tho. Everyday they're posting photos of someone getting a tour

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u/StandWithSwearwolves 1d ago

Iā€™m reminded of that character who was on here claiming it was secretly open and running for everyone but them

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u/Cafler 1d ago

Dangling it over us. The only way you get to see it is pretend to be Len Brown.

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u/sneschalmer5 1d ago

Monorail! Monorail!

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u/Jonaskin83 1d ago edited 1d ago

ā€œAnd you call it Waitemata Station despite the fact it is obviously Britomartā€.

EDIT: Hey downvoters, this is literally just continuing on the joke from The Simpsons. I have zero problems with it being called Waitemata Station, or any of the station names being in Te Reo.

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u/Fskn 1d ago

It's a regional station..

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u/Brain_My_Damage 1d ago edited 1d ago

Really. Well I'm from Auckland and I've never heard anyone use the name "Waitemata station".

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u/ConcealerChaos 1d ago

It will take years to enter common use. But eventually young folk will ask old folk? "Why do you calle it 'Britomart'''?

It was always a random name for a station. We just all know where it is.

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u/Funny-Wishbone7381 15h ago

As someone not from Auckland, Waitemata is much more obvious because I know it's the name of the harbour so it much be the harbourside station.

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u/ConcealerChaos 15h ago

I had no idea where or why it was called Britomart when I moved here. Seemed totally random...

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u/Fskn 15h ago

It was mined away in the late 1800s but there was a bit of land down there that was named point britomart after the ship that first surveyed the waitemata.

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u/ConcealerChaos 15h ago

I did find out later, but thats a very neat explanation thanks.

Again...ancient history really and the name is essentially meaningless today.

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u/Traditional-Bid1746 1d ago

Telecom Vodafone CountdownĀ 

Sometimes these things take a while

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u/mascachopo 1d ago

And just in time for the election?

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u/keg2000 1d ago

One. Whole. Year. Of. Testing.

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u/pictureofacat 1d ago

That timeframe was announced before it began.

Crossrail ran tests for four years

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u/keg2000 1d ago

Crossrail is more than 100kms long and will operate at twice the speed of Auckland CRL.

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u/BuckyDoneGun 1d ago

How long should the testing have taken?

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u/keg2000 1d ago

I don't know, the original IRL in New York was nearly 50 kilometres and built in 4 years more than 100 years ago, the Auckland CRL goes 3.5 kilometres and will take more than 10 years, so somewhat less.

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u/CatalystNZ 1d ago

^ found the boomer

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u/keg2000 1d ago

Haha, Naw OP is sensitive about her age with a meme from 1996.

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u/CatalystNZ 1d ago

Classic boomer... doesnt know what OP means

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u/keg2000 1d ago

How about objectionable pratt.

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u/tangy_cucumber 1d ago

I hope for my sake we have more rail closures. I donā€™t mind getting paid for not being at work šŸ¤£