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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.
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 Auckland Comprehensive Transportation Study Review (1986) confirmed the Southwestern Motorway between Dominion Road and MÄngere was a top priority of the Auckland Regional Authority. [4] By 1987, the Papatoetoe Bypass was completed, linking Massey Road to the south, ending at a roundabout meeting Puhinui Road. [ 5 ]
View looking north over Auckland's Southern Motorway from Bremner Road overbridge at Drury, Auckland. The Auckland Southern Motorway (also known as the Southern Motorway, and historically as the Auckland–Hamilton Motorway) is the major route south out of the Auckland Region of New Zealand. It is part of State Highway 1.
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The other two major motorways in Auckland, the Southwestern Motorway and the Upper Harbour Motorway, form a continuous link in the west of the city, providing an alternative to SH1 between Manukau and Albany. The goal is to provide traffic passing through Auckland, or starting or ending in the western suburbs, with an alternative high-speed ...
All that separates opposing flows of traffic is a set of double no-overtaking lines and a series of slim fixed-in-place post-style road bollards. The tunnel was opened as part of the extension of the Wellington Urban Motorway through Thorndon to Te Aro and was originally envisaged to include a parallel three-lane tunnel exclusively for ...
A future option to also bury the traffic lanes of the remaining southbound viaduct at a later stage was not ruled out. [6] It was initially desired by the local stakeholders but did not go forward, even though the estimates for a replacement of the existing viaduct with a second/wider two-way tunnel envisaged costs of only 50% over the cost of a one-way structure (rather than a doubling of the ...