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The Auckland urban route network consists of strategic and primary arterial roads across the Auckland Region of New Zealand. Urban routes are signposted with white shields with black numbers and borders. To avoid conflict with state highway numbering, there are no urban routes numbered 1, 2, 16, 18, 20, or 22. [1]
View looking north over Auckland's Southern Motorway from Bremner Road overbridge at Drury, Auckland. The Auckland Southern Motorway (also known as the Southern Motorway, and historically as the Auckland–Hamilton Motorway) is the major route south out of the Auckland Region of New Zealand. It is part of State Highway 1.
Twin Coast Discovery Highway – Auckland (via Waiwera) Formerly SH 17. Toll-free route south SH 1/Twin Coast Discovery Highway concurrency ends SH 1 becomes Auckland Northern Motorway: 389: 242: Johnstone's Hill Tunnels: Orewa: 393: 244: Toll point: Silverdale: 398: 247: 398 (Hibiscus Coast Highway) Formerly SH 17. Toll-free route north ...
The Northern Motorway between the Auckland Harbour Bridge and the then Fanshawe Street terminus in May 1960. Photo by Denis Wilford. The first section of the Northern Motorway opened on 30 May 1959, in conjunction with the opening of the Auckland Harbour Bridge. The motorway totalled 7.4 km, from Northcote Road to Fanshawe Street.
The Auckland Comprehensive Transportation Study Review (1986) confirmed the Southwestern Motorway between Dominion Road and MÄngere was a top priority of the Auckland Regional Authority. [4] By 1987, the Papatoetoe Bypass was completed, linking Massey Road to the south, ending at a roundabout meeting Puhinui Road. [ 5 ]
State Highway 1 (SH 1) is the longest and most significant road in the New Zealand road network, running the length of both main islands.It appears on road maps as SH 1 and on road signs as a white number 1 on a red shield, but it has the official designations SH 1N in the North Island, SH 1S in the South Island.
Transport in Auckland, New Zealand's largest city, is defined by factors that include the shape of the Auckland isthmus (with its harbours [1] creating chokepoints and long distances for land transport), the suburban character of much of the urban area, a history (since World War II) of focusing investment on roading projects rather than public transport, [2] and high car-ownership rates.
The Western Ring Route is a motorway system in Auckland, New Zealand.It runs along (from south to north) the entire Southwestern Motorway (State Highway 20), most of the Northwestern Motorway (part of SH 16), the entire Upper Harbour Motorway, and the entire Upper Harbour Highway (the last two forming SH 18). [1]