Pukete Bridge opens

 

This page taken from one of the last issues of Works Consultancy's Momentum magazine reports on the design and opening of the Pukete Bridge in Hamilton City.  The bridge was opened to service the sprawling suburbs of Pukete, Chartwell and Flagstaff north of Hamilton, connecting to the R1 Arterial Road link, which itself linked Te Rapa, State Highway 1 (as it was then), across to a new north-south arterial to the east of Hamilton terminating at SH1 to the south of the city (now all bypassed by the Waikato Expressway).

The project included 1.5km of arterial road, a 150m bridge and related works.  The route was designed to support future four-laning along the whole route (the section from Resolution Drive to Te Rapa Road is now four-laned).  The project also included a 3m wide shared pedestrian/cycleway along the entire route physically separated from the arterial road. 

Works Consultancy at the date of this report was being sold to Kinta Kellas Plc as privatisation of the company. It was noted that the Works brand was bought by Downers for Works Civil Construction.