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Motorway Closures Ahead, Big Projects Start
It’s going to be another busy summer for NZTA motorway projects with considerable disruption during the next few months. Several new projects get underway –...
Transmission Gully Moves Forward
Wellington’s Transmission Gully motorway project leaped forward today following the same fast track path of the Waterview tunnel. Environment Minister Nick Smith...
Waterview Contract Let
The Well-Connected consortium has won the massive Waterview Connection tunnel and motorway contract - a project NZTA acknowledges today won’t be easy. Well-Connected...
Maioro Closes Tonight
The Maioro Street section of SH20 in New Windsor closes after tonight’s peak for four weeks to substantially complete construction of a new interchange. Maioro...
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...
Waterview All Go
The Waterview project is all go. The final Board of Inquiry decision granting designation and resource consents to construct the Waterview Connection has been made. This...
Protecting Future Avondale Line
Protecting a future Avondale/Southdown Railway Line link is covered in todays Board of Inquiry draft decision on Waterview. It’s protection that is crucial. KiwiRail...
Auckland’s Year In Transition
AKT expanded to cover some Auckland issues in 2010 - and just as well as the transition to a Super City council and the plans for transport in the new council...
Mana Result Shows Motorway Support
Followers of Wellington’s Mana by-election expected it would provide a credible test in certain areas of the electorate for the popularity of the planned MacKays...
Cycle, Bus Lane Are Waterview Hot Issues
Incorporating a continuous SH20-SH16 cycleway and a Great North Rd bus lane into the NZTA’s massive Waterview project are among the most contentious issues...
Steven & Shopping Trolley Row
NZTA and a Mt Roskill firm that makes shopping trolleys are locked in a dispute. The firm Faulkner Collins has called on transport minister Steven Joyce to intervene...
Waterview Spins Heads
Locals protest banners during the Sh20 tunnel debate last year Waterview locals wanting to make a submission on the planned Waterview connection are overwhelmed...
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...
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...
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...
SH16 Bus Lanes End At Waterview
ARC officers were asked today why proposed bus lanes on the northwestern Sh16 motorway would end at Waterview and not continue into the city. Officers are working...
Auck Motorway Projects Update
Here’s an update from NZTA of all the hectic motorway projects and progress in the next few months leading up to Christmas. The duplicate Manukau Harbour...
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...
80 Attend Waterview Expo
80 people attended the first of the NZTA’s Waterview expos for residents and those interested in the project. The first was in Te Atatu yesterday afternoon and...
Labour Welcome’s Waterview “Backdown”
Labour today welcomed Transport Minister Steven Joyce’s confirmation that he had “backed down from his preferred route for the Waterview new road connection”. Mt...
Single Resouce Consent Hearing for SH20 Project
Auckland Business Forum chairman Michael Barnett, expects a government announcement to enable a single resource consent hearing to ensure construction on the Waterview...
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...
