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Northwestern Motorway Causeway Progress
Developments today on NZTA’s Northwestern motorway causeway upgrade. It is calling for registrations of interest to upgrade the Northwestern Motorway’s causeway...
Waterview Tunnel Gets Nod
The Waterview tunnel will be built. A draft decision has been given by the Board of Inquiry to grant the NZTA consent to construct the Waterview Connection –...
Future Auck Motorway Plans Revealed
While the Waterview tunnel hearings continue, the authorities are getting the itch to build more motorways and develop further the Western Ring Route (WRR) along...
Report Slams Official Waterview Claims
Just how bad will the air quality be around the Waterview area be once the tunnel is completed and has the estimate of traffic flows been greatly under-estimated? An...
Waterview Down To 2 Companies
Two companies have been shortlisted for the prize of constructing the Waterview Connection – the country’s biggest and most complex roading project. Two...
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...
Waterview Tunnel Briefings
NZTA has organised some more briefings on what is going on with the Waterview connection for the Western Ring Route. Those community briefings were popular last...
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...
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...
NZTA Waterview Tunnel Expos Next Week: “We Want Feedback”
The NZTA is running seminars from next week for residents affected by the Waterview Connection project. The “expos” will be: Thursday, Te Atatu Community Centre,...
Minister: SH20 Plan Had “No Easy Options”
Transport Minister Steven Joyce says he’s pleased yesterday’s announcement about the SH20 final alignment means those in the community now have more certainty...
SH20 Plan Changed: Tunnel Longer & Deeper, Fewer Houses Needed (+ Map)
Final alignment changes have been made to the SH20 plan: The route has been shortened The tunnelled section will be deeper and longer Fewer homes will be demolished...
TVNZ 7′s Mt Albert Back Benches: Rumble In The Hood
TVNZ7′s Back Benches political show screened live tonight from Kingsland’s Mac Brewery. Couldn’t get into the actual pub area where it was being...
Mt Albert by-Election Candidates & Dog Attend Tunnel Protest
Greens, Labour and Act’s Mt Albert by-election candidates turned up at this afternoon’s rally organised by the pro-Waterview tunnel campaign. The rally...
Tunnel or nothing rally
It seems to be the season for protest marches. The pro-Waterview tunnel campaigners advise they are having a protest march next Saturday along the proposed...
Auckland Electric Train Purchase Held Up: Budget Gloom
Why can’t we just get on with it? MORE MOTORWAYS: Yes Aucland so needs more cars! The budget confirmed earlier government support for money towards road transport...
Mt Albert Candidates Rumble At University: Transport Is the By-Election Focus
Greens' Russel related well to the student crowd It’s remarkable to see public transport get so much attention during the Mt Albert by-election. FRONTING...
Waterview row: At Least We Learnt One Auckland Secret!
Putting aside the debate about tunnels and roading for one second, this week’s Waterview debate has at least uncovered - for many of us - one Auckland...
Waterview Tunnel: Learn From The Britomart Disaster (Plus Today’s Political Statements In Full)
UPDATE: The decision is part over and part underground and involves building the motorway under Great North Road and in a tunnel under New North Road and under Avondale...
SH20 Pro-Tunnel Campaign Tries To Hijack Motorway Open Day - and politicans hide
Half a dozen pro - Waterview tunnel campaigners tried to hijack the State highway 20 motorway extension public open day, putting a pro-tunnel banner and signs...
SH20 Mt Roskill motorway extension: Cycle, walk, have fun on it - and campaign for Mt Albert
For just a few hours on Saturday, we can exercise people power on the new SH20 Mt Roskill motorway extension. To mark the opening, you can cycle between 10am and...
Labour win stage one in Mt Albert!
Labour may have to give way to another party in Mt Albert Labour is the first political party to erect billboards in Mt Albert for the forthcoming by-election which...
