National Land Transport Programme 1996 - Auckland regional office

 

NLTP 1996 - Auckland regional information

NLTP 1996 - Auckland/Northland summary allocations

NLTP 1996 - Summary of regional allocation by output class for Auckland

NLTP 1996 - Auckland local road construction funding

NLTP 1996 - Auckland local road safety construction funding

NLTP 1996 - Auckland State highway safety construction

NLTP 1996 - Auckland State highway construction and passenger transport funding

In the final of the NLTP 1996 regional newsletter series, is Auckland, which had by far the greatest funding allocation.  $184 million was allocated for Auckland and Northland. This newsletter mostly focuses on Auckland.  Key Northland projects include completion of the sealing of SH12 through the Waipoua Forest and local road seal extensions.  The output classes with the greatest share of spending were state highways.

Key state highway projects were commitments to complete:

• SH16 North-Western Motorway Rosebank interchange (providing eastbound off and on-ramps at Rosebank Peninsula)
• SH16 North-Western Motorway Western Springs to Newton widening
• SH20 South-Western Motorway extension connecting Mangere Bridge to the Papatoetoe Bypass and Kirkbride Road (to connect to George Bolt Memorial Drive)
• SH1 Southern Motorway widening Papatoetoe-Manukau-Manurewa 6-laning

Largest local road projects were:

• Auckland City's South East Arterial project (now the South Eastern Highway) from Church St to Pakuranga Bridge (a scaled down version of a planned motorway from the SH20 to Pakuranga and along the former south-eastern corridor.
• Completing the sealing of former SH16 (which is now once again SH16) at Cleasby's Hill.

In addition are a number of intersection and local street upgrades to improve capacity and safety.

Notable was funding granted for design of notable major projects:

• Albany-Puhoi extension to Northern Motorway, between Albany and Orewa (subsequently built)
• SH20 Hillsborough Road to Dominion Road extension (subsequently built beyond to Mt Roskill)
• SH1 Victoria Park widening (subsequently did not proceed but was replaced by the Victoria Park Tunnel)
• SH1 High occupancy lane extensions in advance of the Northern Busway (between Esmonde Road and the Auckland Harbour Bridge)
• SH1 Schedewys Hill Bypass (superseded by the Puhoi-Warkworth motorway)
• SH1 Kawakawa Bypass (not yet built)
• SH1 Kamo Bypass (subsequently built)