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The highway begins immediately north of Belfast, with ramps connecting to the Western Bypass of the Christchurch Northern Motorway on State Highway 1.It then proceeds in a southerly direction on the Christchurch Northern Corridor (which opened in 2020) around the suburbs of Belfast, Northwood and Redwood.
Aerial view of the motorway between the junctions of SH1 and SH 73/75 Curletts Road. The Christchurch Southern Motorway begins in the suburb of Addington at the western end of Brougham Street (at the Collins Street intersection), which is a busy multi-lane road linking to the port at Lyttelton, just south of the Christchurch Central Business District (CBD) on SH 76.
The years following the end of the Second World War saw no further progress until in 1953 Sidney Holland, the member of parliament for Fendalton in Christchurch and also more critically prime minister, sponsored the Christchurch-Lyttelton Road Tunnel Bill, which established a seven-man authority to construct and control a road tunnel with ...
Christchurch (/ ˈ k r aɪ s. tʃ ɜːr tʃ / ⓘ; Māori: Ōtautahi) is the largest city in the South Island and the second-largest city by urban area population in New Zealand. [a] Christchurch has an urban population of 415,100, and a metropolitan population of over half a million.
Prestons and Radcliffe roads pass over the motorway, and there is a half diamond interchange (south facing) at Belfast Road. This section of the motorway is called the Christchurch Northern Corridor. The motorway then passes over the Main North Railway Line and Main North Road shortly before a large interchange at Chaneys, north of Belfast.
19 May 1966, Dashwood Pass, Marlborough – A Christchurch to Picton mixed train (popularly named the "Cabbage Train") derailed at the southern portal of Tunnel 22, after the driver took a curve at twice the speed restriction; one killed, two seriously injured. [83]: 59–63
Christchurch–Lyttelton Motorway. The northern terminus is a roundabout on Ferry Road, a few hundred metres southeast of an intersection with the Christchurch ring route. The motorway immediately crosses the Ōpāwaho / Heathcote River and is carried on an embankment south across its swampy floodplain.
The first railway to open in Christchurch was the Ferrymead railway, linking the province's main port with Christchurch, a distance of 7 km. With the opening of the Lyttelton rail tunnel in 1867 and subsequent rise of Lyttelton as the region's port, Ferrymead lost its importance and the railway was closed, having outlived its usefulness.