Contractors proved too keen to start work on a $9 million upgrade of Mt Albert's run-down railway station for the comfort of neighbours woken rudely on Saturday morning.
"It is an extremely poor customer experience to be woken by extremely noisy demolition works at 6.30am on a Saturday morning," apartment resident Nicola Bond wrote in an email to Auckland Mayor Len Brown's office.
Although appreciating that the upgrade needed to occur while trains were not running, she said the station was in front of a block of 40 townhouses called Willcott Mews, many of them home to young children.
"Works such as concrete cutting should wait until 8am or 9am in the morning on the weekend," she told the mayor's staff.
Ms Bond, a resident of Willcott Mews next to a walkway to the railway station, said she was also angry at not being contacted by the works project team and having the entrance to the townhouses blocked by contractors' trucks.