Contractors working on the two lane link underneath the Maungatapu roundabout have broken through 18,000m3 of dirt to reach the other side.
The $45 million Maungatapu underpass will be a two lane link underneath the Maungatapu roundabout, improving the traffic flow around the Maungatapu and Hairini roundabouts.
It will connect Welcome Bay Road to the Turret Road causeway. The underpass is part of the Hairini Link project.
NZ Transport Agency projects team manager John McCarthy says the underpass is in its final summer of construction and is on track for opening by April next year.
'People travelling around Welcome Bay Road can now see right through the underpass.
'This is a major milestone for the earthworks team who moved the total of 18 thousand cubic metres of dirt, from both sides of the underpass in a constrained space.”
The two bridges under the Maungatapu roundabout are complete and the Kaitemako Culvert now has water running through it. The pedestrian and cyclist overbridge is also complete and in use. The internal walls of the underpass still need to be installed, the final road surface laid and landscaping completed.
The Maungatapu underpass is being constructed on State Highway 29A and includes new cycle links and a cycle and pedestrian bridge above Welcome Bay Road.
NZTA highway manager Niclas Johansson says the underpass will separate state highway and local traffic, and in turn, reduce congestion at peak times and make travel safer for pedestrians and cyclists.
Read more about the Hairini Link here: http://www.nzta.govt.nz/projects/hairini-link/
2 comments
A road called ...
Posted on 24-10-2017 13:04 | By MISS ADVENTURE
actually a carpark an "AM" carpark. This is free to use, no cost to occupiers but otherwise achieves absolutely nothing for a $45m price tag. It is almost as if TCC were design, manage and running it based on the meaningless outcome of it. In fact TCC haev made it completely meaningless by interferring in it so stuffing up the promise made by John Key in 2008. Result is half a job and the traffic woes on the Causway/Turret/15th Ave remain exactly as they were. Congested, caos and a traffic disaster. God-save-the-Ratepayer,-as-no-one-else-wants-to,-10/4-out!
Maungatapu Underpass
Posted on 25-10-2017 07:33 | By collydogz
It will just cause more conjestion as traffic moves into one lane to cross the turret road bridge. Like everything this council does with roading. Moves jams from one place to another.
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