Archive for: SH20

New Maioro Interchange Opens Monday

New Maioro Interchange Opens Monday

The third and last extended closure along a section of SH20 will begin this Friday nigh as the NZ Transport Agency’s starts the final programme of works to improve...

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More SH20 Delays Ahead

More SH20 Delays Ahead

More delays ahead for those using the SH20 and surrounds. The State Highway 20 Maioro Street closure in New Windsor will be extended 1.2 kilometres down the Southwestern...

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Waterview Connection Starts

Waterview Connection Starts

The closing of New Windsor’s Maioro Street marks the unofficial start of the Waterview Connection project now that it has passed its various regulatory hurdles...

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Maioro St Delays Ahead

Maioro St Delays Ahead

Stressful times for motorists who use the Maioro Street section of SH20 or indeed SH20. That section will close on Friday for four weeks so that it can accelerate...

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Airport Route Changes Delayed

Airport Route Changes Delayed

Recent bad weather has disrupted NZTA’s plans to make significant changes to a section of Auckland’s SH20 and the Walmsley Road on ramp at Mangere Bridge...

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SH20 Lane Closure Sunday

SH20 Lane Closure Sunday

NZTA will close a section of the southbound lanes on SH20 on Sunday night for work associated with improvements to the Walmsley Road interchange at Mangere Bridge. The...

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SH20 Cavendish Section Opened

SH20 Cavendish Section Opened

The SH20 Cavendish to Puhinui connecting road and westbound on-ramp in Manukau has been opened completing the new SH20-1 Manukau motorway. This was the final stage...

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Signalling Traffic Changes

Signalling Traffic Changes

Because of frustrations about traffic congestion at the connection of State Highways 20 and 1 at Manukau, ramp signals will start operating from Monday to try...

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Onehunga Pedestrian Bridge Opens

Onehunga Pedestrian Bridge Opens

The new pedestrian/cycle bridge spanning Onehunga Harbour Road will be officially opened  tomorrow afternoon. NZTA hopes it will provide safe crossing across Onehunga...

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Venting Anger Over Waterview

Venting Anger Over Waterview

Public submissions on the Waterview tunnel project closed on Friday night - and a last-minute change involving a ventilation building will feature strongly...

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Manukau Delays Brings Change

Manukau Delays Brings Change

New traffic control measures will be introduced as NZTA’s answer to criticism about its motorway congestion at Manukau. Southbound lanes on the Southwestern...

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Manukau Delays, Congestion Update

Manukau Delays, Congestion Update

“Severe delays” are reported around Manukau with the new motorway changes just introduced. The westbound lanes of the new SH20-1 Manukau Extension motorway...

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Manukau Rail Opens July

Manukau Rail Opens July

The Manukau train station and the opening of the Manukau line is on schedule to be opened in July of next year soon after tracking and signalling are finished. But...

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Who Decides Waterview

Who Decides Waterview

Confirmation today that NZTA’s proposal for the Waterview Connection Project will go to an independent board of inquiry under the new national consenting process...

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All Lanes On SH20 Upgrade To Open

All Lanes On SH20 Upgrade To Open

Weather permitting, all lanes on the upgraded SH20 between Walmsley Road and Queenstown Road will be open and fully functioning from 5am tomorrow. NZTA says...

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NZTA: Manukau Extsn Benefits PT

NZTA: Manukau Extsn Benefits PT

Auckland’s newest motorway, opened today, is a project that not only benefits road users but will lead to public transport improvements as well. That’s...

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Waterview Application With EPA

Waterview Application With EPA

NZTA’s application for the $2 billion Waterview Connection on State Highway 20 has arraived at the Environmental Protection Authority. The government’s...

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Video: Manukau Extension Opening

Video: Manukau Extension Opening

You’ll be able to walk or cycle on the new SH20-1 Manukau Extension motorway, on Saturday week (August 28) before it’s open to traffic. Pedestrians...

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Councillors: Scrap Waterview

Councillors: Scrap Waterview

Left-leaning Auckland City councillors this afternoon tried to get the council to demand the NZTA dump its SH20 Waterview part-tunnel development and “go back...

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Waterview Decisions Loom

Waterview Decisions Loom

Labour Mt Albert MP David Shearer and representatives of groups like the Mt Albert Residents Association, Friends of Oakley Creek and the Waterview Environmental...

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Puhinui Connecting Rd Opens

Puhinui Connecting Rd Opens

The new Puhinui to Roscommon connecting road in Manukau City opens on Thursday. It will replace the existing on-ramp to SH20 and give motorists a new route to get...

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Hot Debate: Waterview

Hot Debate: Waterview

More reaction to today’s news that tenders are being called for the Waterview Connection: Auckland Business Forum: Auckland has been waiting 45 years for a...

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Waterview Tenders Called

Waterview Tenders Called

NZTA today called for tenders to build the Waterview Connection - which is called the country’s most expensive and complex roading job ever. Replying...

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More Traffic Webcams

More Traffic Webcams

NZTA has put online more web cams for you to keep an eye on Auckland traffic. NZTA Auckland motorway webcam at rush hour tonight There are 13 additional webcams...

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Dominion Rd Plan Update

Dominion Rd Plan Update

Dominion Rd is one giant traffic jam along its 4.5 kilometres – yet is considered a major public transport poster child, getting buses running every 15 minutes. There’s...

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