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The Waterview Tunnel is a twin road tunnel in central Auckland, New Zealand.At 2,400 metres (7,900 ft) long, it is New Zealand's longest road tunnel. [1] The tunnel, with three lanes of road vehicle traffic in each direction, connects State Highway 20 in the south at Mount Roskill to State Highway 16 in the west at Point Chevalier as part of the Waterview Connection.
Transit New Zealand did not seek to renew the designation for this road in 2007, [3] meaning that this project is now unlikely to proceed. As of 2023, houses have been built on parts of the former designation and a 380-unit retirement village is under construction, [ 4 ] presumably therefore, any future bypass of East Taieri will require a ...
State Highway 38 (SH 38) is a road in the North Island of New Zealand that starts from SH 5 near Waiotapu, and ends at Wairoa, where it connects to SH 2. It is the shortest connection from the central North Island ( Rotorua ) to the East Coast ( Gisborne ), but it is not often used as such.
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.
The Waikato Expressway is a dual carriageway section of State Highway 1 (SH 1) in New Zealand's Waikato region. Constructed in stages, it forms part of the link between Auckland and Hamilton . Currently stretching from Auckland to south of Cambridge , [ 1 ] the first section of the highway was built in 1993. [ 2 ]
Road maps usually number state highways in this fashion. Of the total state highway network, New Zealand currently has 363 km (226 mi) of motorways and expressways with grade-separated access and they carry ten percent of all New Zealand traffic. The majority of the state highway network is made up of single-carriageway roads with one lane each ...
Route currently incomplete due to closure of the Holland Road level crossing in April 2022. [1] SH 1 at Horsham Downs: SH 1 at Tamahere: Hamilton: 26 Formerly part of SH 1. SH 1 was rerouted onto the new Hamilton section of the Waikato Expressway in July 2022. [2] SH 1 at PÅkeno (45 km south of Auckland) SH 1 at Ngauranga (5 km north of ...
River Road, between Maoribank and Silverstream in Upper Hutt, was opened in 1987 to bypass central Upper Hutt. The new route was a two-laned single-carriageway 100 km/h road on the Hutt River's banks, crossing the river at Moonshine, and replaced the 50 km/h route via Fergusson Drive.