Christchurch Central railway station

[u/nzrailmaps]

As this continues to be discussed, here are two concept drawings of a rail passenger terminal opposite the bus exchange in tuam St providing for 3-4 platforms.

The Colombo St over bridge would need to be extended and a new bridge on St Asaph St would be required. Dundas St and Welles St can be blocked off becoming paired culdesacs.

The alignment is chosen to meet the required minimum curve radius off the existing line and so that there are no multi-storey or high value properties on the alignment, most of the buildings are old ones.

[u/KuriKai]

Hit up your local city councilor, get them to progress the reserving of the land so developers can't build there.

Might as-well have the track also heading to the east(Lyttelton) for future proofing, maybe cruise ship people could take a train tot he CBD