Numbers Bridge to Coyle Park or MOTAT

21 January 2015. Updated 23 Oct 2015. Renamed and updated 24 Feb 2018

By Mark Farquharson

This covers two sequences that overlap until you get to Pt Chevalier Library.

Sequence 1: Numbers Bridge to Coyle Park starts:

Note sequence 2 also starts here.

Numbers bridge, has numbers on path across bridge

Ken Maunder Park

Road bridge to the suburb of Avondale

Avondale Racecourse Entrance

Tait Park

Avondale College & Intermediate

Avondale Library & drinking tap

Avondale street shops

Heron Park

Phyllis Street Reserve

Suburb Waterview

Oakley Creek walkway starts.

Fern Glen bridge

Beginning of Unitec site. Unitec Institute of Technology

Waterfall

Map Sign

Path to Unitec

Unitec Library

Old stone wall

Old bridge remains

Wairaka Wetland Boardwalk

Entrance and exit for the two motorway tunnels. Note the other end of the tunnels are in the sequence: Alan Wood Park to Three Kings

Main road went like a snake during construction work.

Second Map Sign

Oakley Creek walkway Ends

Starmill Site, mill no longer there.

Manawanui Hospital:

End of Unitec site

Motorway over bridge

Suburb Pt Chevalier

Intersection of Pt Chevalier and Great North road

Pt Chevalier Library.

Community Centre

Saint Francis & St Therese Parish Hall

Old Homestead Co-operating Parish

Springs of Life Church

Eric Armishaw Park

Walker Park

Selwyn Village, Christ’s hospital

Selwyn Village, main gate

Selwyn Village, St Francis

St Michaels Ave

Pt Chevalier Beach

Coyle Park

Sequence Ends

Sequence 2: Numbers Bridge to MOTAT Sequence

Same as sequence 1 until you get to Pt Chevalier Library.

Suburb Pt Chevalier

Pt Chevalier Library

Huia road

Kiwi Road

Walmer Road

Moa road

Riro street

Premier Avenue

Western Springs

Sir Keith Park Memorial Airfield. Includes Aviation Display Hall. Aviation site of MOTAT

Tram goes from Aviation Display Hall, past Western Springs, to MOTAT

Motions Road

Auckland Zoo

Seddon Fields

Western Springs Park, which is a large park with a lake in it

Circle of Friends in Western Springs Park

Arrive at lake in Western Springs Park

Round Table in Western Springs Park

Stadium

End of lake in Western Springs Park

MOTAT, short for Museum of Transport and Technology. Other site.

Sequence Ends

Signs:

Map Sign: There are two map signs along the Oakley Creek walkway. One about half way along, and the other near the end, close to the motorway. However a mistake was made and both have two "You are here," points on them, indicating the halfway and near the end.

On the 27 July 2011, I was walking along Oakley Creek walkway. There was a mother and a daughter on the path, well I think they were mother and daughter. When we first meet I said morning or something. I say morning to people when I am out and about, I thought nothing of it. Most of the path went along the Oakley creek in the suburb of Waterview, in Auckland. They were ahead of me, and stop up ahead on the path. I pasted and said morning I think. Then I went down a side path and they past on the main path. Getting back to the main path I carried on until I stopped at a sign. The sign had two places indicated as “You are here.” Clearly one was a mistake. Looking at the sign I knew where I was. I continued on the path to the end where there was another sign. Actually it was a copy of the sign I had seen earlier, with the same two places indicated as “You are here.” I could easily tell where I was on the sign. Looking at the sign were the two women, mother and daughter.

The mother asked me how long the sign had been there. I said something like, “it’s the first time I have been here.” As it was the first time I had been on the path. There were these workers it look like they were planting trees. The mother asked one of them, a woman who she know, how long the sign had been there. She answered saying the summer, 6 months. Now New Zealand is in the southern hemisphere, mean summer is Dec-Feb. She also mention the mistake on the sign. The mother said something like she knew where she was as that was the motorway. Yes that was indeed the motorway. I left the two women, we went different ways.

Alice Sign: The two motorway tunnels are being constructed using the tunnel boring machine named Alice, after Alice in Wonderland. Alice has finished boring both the tunnels. Alice finished the first tunnel on the 29 September 2014 and completed the second tunnel on the 19 October 2015.

The sign of the tram: Years ago before my time, Auckland had trams, then the tracks were ripped up. Recently they have put in a short track at the waterfront. MOTAT a museum also has some trams that they run on a short track. I was on a walk on the 23 October 2012. On the way back I decided to cut across a field. Then I noticed the tram stop at the aviation part of MOTAT. I walked up to the stop, and soon after these people came up to the stop. They asked if I knew when the tram was coming. I pointed to the sign, that said every half hour. Then the time was mentioned, 11:00 o’clock. The tram would be there at 11:15, in 15 minutes.

Sign of “Something:” On the 6 February 2013 I got the sign “something.” I was walking through Western Springs Park, a park with a lake. There was this Asian man I noticed who was carrying a bag, that was open. The towel, if that was what it was, fall on the ground. I picked it up, turn and said “you dropped something.” He turned and thanking me took back the towel. This occurred at the point in the sequence which is after “Circle of Friends.” What is the “Something,” well it is “something,” and defiantly not “nothing.”

Sign "Are you Hungry:" I was in Western Springs Park on the 24 October 2013. I prayed at a table, for the Table of the Lord. Leaving the table I proceed along the path beside the lake. Then a young man, with what looked like bread asked me, "are you hungry?" I said "No," and proceed on my way. It seemed a strange thing for someone to ask. Not sure of the meaning of it.

Comments:

Coyle Park: Went to Coyle Park with a group of people on the 16 December 2013, for a barbecue. I said grace.

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