Waterview Tunnel Opens, Motorway Network Completed
Yesterday morning the Waterview tunnel finally opened, after months of delay. An NZTA tweet at 2:32AM (don’t they sleep?) showed a video of the first cars going through: #WaterviewTunnel is now open to traffic. Avoid rushing to drive through – it will be busy today.…
53 Comments Waterview officially opened
Yesterday the Waterview tunnels were officially opened by the Prime Minister and Transport Minister Simon Bridges – although it was a photo op Steven Joyce couldn’t pass up either. Prime Minister Bill English and Transport Minister Simon Bridges have cut the ribbon to mark the completion of the $1.4 billion Waterview Tunnel.…
Light at the end of the Waterview Tunnel
After months of delays the opening of the Waterview tunnels is finally in sight with Transport Minister Simon Bridges announcing it will open in early July and that there will be open days over the next two weekends. That follows the ribbon cutting on Sunday.…
Waterview reckoning
On Friday afternoon, Newstalk ZB reported, and followed up by the Herald yesterday that the Waterview Tunnels will have lights to control traffic both accessing the tunnels and on the connection out of the tunnels onto SH16 eastbound. Auckland’s new Waterview Tunnel will speed up travel times, but motorists will have to wait in queues at traffic lights to enter it.…
2016 – A Year in Review Part 3 – Roads
This is Part 3 of our series wrapping up the year and in this post I’m looking at Roads. You can also see: Part 1 on public transport
Part 2 on Walking and Cycling Here’s my summary
ATAP
The Auckland Transport Alignment Project (ATAP) has been a huge feature of the year and while not strictly road related, I’ll include it in this summary.…
Waterview Mitigation Needed
We’re now only months away from the opening of New Zealand’s biggest transport project to date, the Waterview tunnels – likely to be sometime between January and March. Waterview should have represented the last major new urban highway connection in Auckland but of course the NZTA and others have since started pushing other projects such as the East-West Link and an Additional Waitemata Harbour crossing.…
Waterview March Update
It’s been a few months since we last posted an update on what is currently the country’s single biggest transport project. Here are some of the recent updates.
The tunnel boring machine has been dismantled and shipped back to its manufacturer.…
Waterview Shared Path begins
Auckland Transport have today kicked off another large cycling project today – the Waterview Shared Path. This is a project that came about as a result of the advocacy of locals and groups like Bike Auckland during the consenting for the Waterview Connection project and the Board of Inquiry make its construction one of the requirements of the project – although not paid for as part of the motorway project.…
Waterview December Update
The Waterview Connection project is currently New Zealand’s biggest transport project and the team working on it regularly put out pictures and videos of the work they’re doing. Here are some of the latest updates.
Over the weekend the arch of the Hendon St walking and cycling bridge was installed.…
Auckland Rapid Transit Network
This is AT’s official future vision for the Rapid Transit Network in Auckland. I feel the need to show this again in the context of a number of uninformed views about the CRL popping up again, as one of the chief misunderstandings is to treat the City Rail Link as a single route outside of the network it serves.…
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