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An old highway, the Great South Road, runs through Takanini, forming its main street. The road was constructed during the New Zealand Wars to transport supplies to the Waikato campaign. It was guarded by armed constabulary and was a designated military road.
The Southern Path (Māori: Ara Tonga) is a 4.5 km off-road shared path linking Takanini and Papakura. [1] The route runs along State Highway 1 . [ 2 ] It opened in 2021 and was built part of the Southern Corridor Improvements project.
The Great South Road is a major arterial road on the Auckland isthmus and South Auckland. Originally the northern section of the earliest highway between Auckland and Wellington , in the North Island of New Zealand, the road was the main route connecting Auckland to Hamilton.
In 2010, Papakura District boundaries covered 123 square kilometres and the centre of the district was located 32 km from downtown Auckland.. The geography of the district encompasses fertile plains, the inlets and foreshores of the Manukau Harbour, and the rolling foothills of the Hunua Range; a relatively narrow but strategically well positioned narrow span of land between the Hauraki Gulf ...
It was quickly extended southwards in 1955 to Redoubt Road to provide a higher-capacity and faster alternative to Great South Road between Ellerslie and Wiri. In 1963, the motorway was extended at both ends, the northern terminus was moved north to Green Lane East and the southern terminus was moved south to Takanini to allow traffic to bypass ...
Stagecoach New Zealand Hawke bodied Volvo B58 trolleybus in Wellington. Hawke Coachwork Limited was a New Zealand bus and coach body manufacturer.. Established in 1952 by brothers Haddon and Leslie Hawke, it was based on Great South Road, Takanini.
A pair of Long Island homeowners Jacklyn Proscia, 35, and Christina Stergiopoulos, 36 are going big for Christmas — installing a 42-foot inflatable Santa Claus that’s attracted hundreds of ...
State Highway 1 ran down Great South Road through central Papakura until 1965, when it was bypassed by the Auckland Southern Motorway. [104] In 2021, the Southern Path, a cycling and walking path linking Takanini to Karaka adjacent to the Southern Motorway was opened. [105]