3 corridors linking 8 cities, about 1,200 km measured city to city in straight lines (about 1,400 km built, at a route factor of 1.2), with 1 cross-border links and crossings. Auckland to Wellington, Hamilton to Tauranga, and Picton to Dunedin, with a Cook Strait crossing and the MMA undersea link to Australia.
The Network Concept
The corridors.
Each corridor is listed below in order of its cities.
MMC New Zealand network concept, schematic. Dark lines are corridors; grey lines are neighbouring corridors; gold lines are cross-border links; blue dashed lines are sea crossings; gold dashed lines are mountain tunnels; the wide gold band marks the spines. Routes are indicative.
Routes are indicative. Corridors are drawn city to city, through the cities on the existing railway wherever a line exists: MMC corridors follow those lines, upgrading the line or running above it on viaduct. Where no line exists, the corridor is new build. Final alignments are set at detailed design by terrain survey, geotechnical analysis, environmental and cultural heritage assessment, and agreement between the nations they connect.
NZ-1 North Island: Auckland – Hamilton – Palmerston North – Wellington
NZ-2 Bay of Plenty: Hamilton – Tauranga
NZ-3 South Island: Picton – Christchurch – Dunedin
Engagement
To initiate the programme in New Zealand.
The MMC platform is available to any nation building to the standard. If your government, agency, or capital partner could initiate a project in New Zealand: Make contact.
