The matter was ultimately settled outside court in late 2024, with the ongoing operations and maintenance being brought in-house by the agency.<\/p>\n
Details of the settlement remain confidential but those funds will be used to complete the project, while maintenance and repairs continue to be funded through the National Land Transport Fund.<\/p>\n
Transmission Gully during construction. Photo \/ Mark Mitchell <\/p>\n
This summer\u2019s work is is expected to cost about $32m, funded as part of the PPP arrangement.<\/p>\n
The road, the construction of which had been debated for more than 100 years, was officially started in 2014.<\/p>\n
The build\u2019s setbacks included years of budget blowouts<\/a> and delays due to Covid-19<\/a>, severe weather events and the Kaik\u014dura earthquake. <\/p>\n By 2022, there was a desire to get the road open and iron out problems later.<\/p>\n Disruption is expected from next week as work gets under way from November 4 until mid-February next year.<\/p>\n \u201cThis work will require lane closures, road closures and speed restrictions,\u201d NZTA announced this week.<\/p>\n About 6km of the 27km highway will be rebuilt this summer, a drop from the 20 lane kilometres the agency previously said needed work.<\/p>\n Another 18km will be resealed this summer due to faulty chip-sealing, which is causing waterproofing issues.<\/p>\n Detours will be in place on State Highways 59 and 58 when Transmission Gully is closed.<\/p>\n The road resurfacing work must take place over the warmer months, NZTA\u2019s website states.<\/p>\n The works will help bring the highway up to standard for a speed limit increase to 110km\/h.<\/p>\n The Herald revealed earlier this month more than 90% of commuters support the increase<\/a>, including the Transport Minister, but a long-touted speed limit increase will not happen soon as officials work through a bureaucratic process to consider the increase.<\/p>\n NZTA\u2018s website states the full decision-making process on a speed increase can take between six and 12 months, depending on scoping, design and funding for necessary infrastructure.<\/p>\n That decision must be made independently by the agency\u2019s director of land transport, Brent Alderton.<\/p>\n It is unclear how long it will take for the limit to go up once the decision has been made.<\/p>\n Ethan Manera<\/a> is a Wellington-based journalist covering Wellington issues, local politics and business in the capital. He can be emailed at ethan.manera@nzme.co.nz<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cResurfacing and rebuilding work will continue on Transmission Gully as part of future summer maintenance seasons. The specific…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110196,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[29485,78984,24752,3017,806,8613,127,78983,30185,10938,26755,23362,111,43,139,69,1118,10521,17152,48886,21501,1569,14625,1529,30184,15900,4576,1530],"class_list":["post-110195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-29485","tag-32m","tag-ago","tag-ahead","tag-as","tag-billion","tag-despite","tag-fixups","tag-gully","tag-herald","tag-highway","tag-needed","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-opening","tag-rebuild","tag-rebuilding","tag-reveal","tag-starts","tag-summer","tag-three","tag-transmission","tag-wellingtons","tag-work","tag-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}The public want travel on Transmission Gully to be quicker but a decision on raising the speed limit for the unfinished highway will still take 6-12 months.<\/p>\n