National Land Transport Programme 1996 - Waikato/Bay of Plenty regional office newsletter

 

Connections Newsletter August 1995

NLTP 1996 Waikato/BOP maintenance and safety improvements

NLTP 1996 - Waikato/BOP Bridge renewals, new construction, investigation and design projects

NLTP 1996 - Waikato/BOP investigation/design projects and commitments, with overall summary

The Hamilton regional office of Transit New Zealand covered both Waikato and the Bay of Plenty . This newsletter highlighted spending in both regions for the 1996 NLTP.  $96.9m was allocated for Waikato and $32.4m for the Bay of Plenty, with higher funding for any region outside Auckland.

In both regions state highway funding predominated, although local road funding was around two-thirds that for state highways.  A significant proportion of funding was for previously committed projects to the extent that no new state highway construction projects were approved (except safety improvement projects).

Notable was an explanation about the increase in seal extension funding (seen all across the country):

"Approximately 20 kilometres of road will be sealed in the Waikato and Bay of Plenty during 1995/96. This is a dramatic increase over the 4 kilometres of seal extensions completed in 1994/95 and is largely a result of TNZ's new evaluation procedures now placing a value on the" comfort factor that users assign to travelling on scaled roads"

Notable projects included:

• Earthquake Flat realignment SH5 Rotorua
• Pokeno Bypass SH1 (commitment)
• Pukete Arterial, Hamilton City (commitment) 
• Mangaiti Hill Realignment, SH1 South Waikato (commitment)
• SH25 seal completion (commitment)
• Mangatawhiri Bridge realignment SH1 (commitment)
• Tamahere Interchange SH1 (commitment)

Also noted is extensive funding for investigation and design work on projects such as SH38 seal extension, Katikati Bypass SH2 (which has not proceeded) and four laning of state highways in Rotorua.  Indicative is an extensive commitment to funding small scale safety projects across local and state highway networks.