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The Te Ahu a Turanga – Manawatū Tararua Highway is a 11-kilometre-long (7-mile), four-lane highway under construction connecting Ashhurst and Woodville over the Ruahine Range following the closure of the Manawatū Gorge road in 2017. Construction began in January 2021 and completion is scheduled for mid 2025. [1] [2]
State Highway 3 will form part of the future/proposed Southern Links motorway project in the South/West of Hamilton and Tamahere. [25] In January 2016, funding was announced for road bypasses of the two tunnels north of New Plymouth. Construction of the Mount Messenger and Awakino Gorge tunnel bypasses was expected to begin within two years. [26]
This road is heavily trafficked in the event of the closure of the Manawatū Gorge due to slips. State Highway 57 between Aokautere and Ashhurst is then used to take traffic from State Highway 3 to the Pahiatua Track. From Aokautere, the highway proceeds straight on the southern banks of the Manawatu River to the western end of the Manawatū Gorge.
Other than Saddle Road and the Pahiatua Track, both narrow winding local roads a few kilometers north and south of the Manawatu Gorge, [7] the gorge was the only east-west road connection between the Akatarawa Valley, 100 kilometres (62 mi) to the south, and SH5 between Taupo and Napier 150 kilometres (93 mi) north of the Manawatu Gorge. [8 ...
Once a vital route between Manawatū, Hawkes Bay and Wairarapa, geologic instability means the Manawatū Gorge road will never be re-opened. A new 4-lane road project was approved by the NZ Government in September 2019. It will be built between the existing Saddle Road and the Manawatū Gorge, connecting to SH2 west of Woodville. [6]
SH 1N is used in official documentation, SH 1 is used on maps and signs. The Interislander ferry connects State Highway 1N and State Highway 1S between Wellington and Picton. SH 1 at Taupiri: SH 1 at Cambridge: Gordonton: 41.9 Forms an eastern bypass of Hamilton. Route currently incomplete due to closure of the Holland Road level crossing in ...
It then leaves Waughs Road and travels south-west along Camerons Line and south-east along Milson Line, before turning south-west along Kairanga-Bunnythorpe Road. The SH 54 designation ends at the junction of Kairanga-Bunnythorpe Road with SH 3 near the settlement of Newbury, 4.5 km (2.8 mi) north-west of central Palmerston North.
Kiwi Road Tunnels: the eastern one on Kiwi Road, the western on Moki Road, near Uruti Road. Makahu Tunnel on Brewer Road, providing access to the small village of Makahu (white hawk). Matau Tunnel on Mangaoapa Road, connecting Matau and Douglas via Kiore. Moki Stock Tunnel, hidden away in the bush to the east of the Kiwi Tunnels.