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State Highway 16 (SH 16) is a New Zealand state highway linking central Auckland with Wellsford, via Auckland's Northwestern Motorway, Helensville and Kaukapakapa.It provides an alternative to SH 1 for traffic travelling between Auckland and parts of Northland from Wellsford northwards.
This is a list of motorways and expressways in New Zealand, including some proposed and under construction.There are currently 416 km of motorways and expressways in New Zealand. 19 km are currently under construction, with a further 170 km expected to be completed by 2034, at which time a total of 605 km of motorway and expressway is expected.
The same shield is occasionally employed elsewhere for "Regional Route" roads. These include the route UR1 in New Plymouth, the former route K in Tauranga (now SH29), and revoked state highways like the Inland Kaikoura Road (Route 70), Inland Scenic Route 72, and Route 67, the northernmost extent of SH67 on the West Coast.
The next section opened for traffic in 1955, then offering a two-laned 7.8 km section from Great North Road (current Exit 8) to Lincoln Road (current Exit 16). The section involved bridges over inlets of the Waitematā Harbour , which cut the journey between central Auckland and its airport at Whenuapai by 8 km.
Oakley Creek, near where the bored tunnels in the final (2010) alignments stop (and was joined to cut and cover built tunnels for the last section towards SH16).. Several routes were considered, all being variations of either a connection to SH16 along the Rosebank Peninsula (e.g. AR1, AR3) or at the Great North Road interchange at Waterview (e.g. AW1, AW4). [5]
Transport in Auckland, New Zealand's largest city, is defined by factors that include the shape of the Auckland isthmus (with its harbours [1] creating chokepoints and long distances for land transport), the suburban character of much of the urban area, a history (since World War II) of focusing investment on roading projects rather than public transport, [2] and high car-ownership rates.
The Waterview Tunnel is a twin road tunnel in central Auckland, New Zealand.At 2,400 metres (7,900 ft) long, it is New Zealand's longest road tunnel. [1] The tunnel, with three lanes of road vehicle traffic in each direction, connects State Highway 20 in the south at Mount Roskill to State Highway 16 in the west at Point Chevalier as part of the Waterview Connection.
The materiality of the change to the Waikato Expressway assessment warranted an update and re-run of the CGE model." The re-run model shows benefits of $186.3m pa, against annual costs of $87.3m. However, this is based on a total cost for the road of $1454.4m, which omits land costs, "as from an economy-wide perspective this is merely a ...