Victoria Park Tunnel – videos
While looking for some detailed plans of how NZTA will manage the closure of the Wellington Street onramp for three months starting pretty soon, I came across a couple of great videos providing updates on how building the Victoria Park Tunnel is progressing: This is a pretty exciting project and, unlike some of the other roads of national significance, the numbers seem to stack up pretty well in terms of its cost-effectiveness.…
7 Comments Further analysis of RoNS & holiday highway
The Roads of National Significance (RoNS) have somehow managed to force their way into being the forefront of transport investment in New Zealand over the next decade, with a huge amount of the $10.7 billion anticipated to be spent on state highways over that period going into these seven roads.…
Wellington Street onramp to close (for 3 months!)
NZTA reports that as part of the Victoria Park Tunnel works, they will need to close the Wellington Street onramp between Monday 23 August and the end of November. Here’s the press-release:
On-ramp closure as Vic Park tunnel construction accelerates
21 Jul 2010 | Auckland Regional Office
Construction of the Victoria Park motorway tunnel in central Auckland is reaching a critical stage, and the NZ Transport Agency is advising motorists that the Wellington Street on-ramp will be closed for approximately three months so that supporting walls for the southern approach to the tunnel can be built.…
Motorway network nearing completion
A couple of media releases on motorway projects today show that good progress is being made on two large projects: the SH20-SH1 Manukau Connection and the SH1 Newmarket Viaduct replacement project. Looking at the Manukau Connection Project first, the following part of the media release is quite interesting:
The $220M Manukau Extension motorway project is scheduled to be opened progressively between August and December.…
The Motorway Building Bonanza!
It sounds like a circus doesn’t it? Roll up! Roll up! To the motorway building bonanza! I do generally find myself losing count when I try to put together all the motorway building projects that are going on around Auckland at the moment.…
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