Puhoi Hymn in Unison

in Featured General Motorways by AKT — February 22, 2011 at 12:00 am | 3 comments

Auckland Transport says its singing from the same song sheet as Auckland Council on its attitude to the SHI Puhoi-Wellsford Road proposal.

Manager of strategy and planning, Peter Clark, says Auckland Transport is working collaboartelively with Auckland Council officers.

“There are no conflicts with the Auckland Council submission on the project.”

In July and August of last year, NZTA undertook Phase 1 consultation on the project. As a result, NZTA concluded that:

• When completed, the new highway will be ‘offline’ from the existing SH1
• There will be access points at Warkworth and Wellsford
• The question of an access point at Phoi will be further considered with AC in the context of the Auckland Plan
• The new highway will pass Warkworth to the west and Wellsford to the east

NZTA is now in the process of Phase 2 consultation and has invited feedback on an indicative route between Puhoi and warkworth.

The Auckland Transport’s key submission points are that they:

• Request NZTA to work with Auckland Transport to ensure that the network is considered as a whole and in particular that implications for the local network are fully considered.
• Endorse the proposal that the impact on the project on land use, including the impacts on an access point at Puhoi, be considered further through the Auckland Plan process.
• Encourage NZTA to review staging options to ensure that the most critical issues are addressed early and that the whole project is carried out in a cost effective manner.
• Support the proposed northern access to Warkworth on the grounds that it provides simpler routes for the major connections and removes more through traffic from the local network than the alternative central connection via Woodcocks Road.

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