{"id":521513,"date":"2026-07-11T22:51:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T22:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/521513\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T22:51:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T22:51:10","slug":"movement-on-two-major-north-island-road-projects-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/521513\/","title":{"rendered":"Movement on two major North Island road projects"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two significant moves are underway on major road projects in the North Island.<\/p>\n

By Phil Pennington of RNZ<\/a><\/p>\n

A request for tenders is about to go out to design and build the Cambridge to Piarere extension<\/a> to the Waikato Expressway.<\/p>\n

At the same time, Hutt City Council is looking to hire consultants for work on protecting a route for its Cross Valley Link, which is planned as a feeder to the proposed Petone to Grenada highway.<\/p>\n

Both the expressway and highway are Roads of National Significance<\/a> (RONS).<\/p>\n

The government on Thursday laid out the phases for building the RONS which together carry a $56 billion estimated pricetag over 20 years.<\/p>\n

The Cambridge to Piarere four-lane, 16km extension to the Waikato Expressway is expected to cost about $1.8 billion. The government recently confirmed construction funding for it.<\/p>\n

The contract should be let late this year and the aim was to open the road in 2032, said NZTA.<\/p>\n

“The new expressway will improve journeys by reducing congestion, improving safety, improving travel time reliability and boosting the region’s economic growth. It will provide a more resilient roading network for this critical corridor,” the agency said online.<\/p>\n

Plans would be done for how the important Kar\u0101piro Road intersection with SH1 would be managed.<\/p>\n

In Lower Hutt, the Cross Valley Link has been talked about for years, as a way to link the industrial southeastern end of the Hutt Valley at Seaview with State Highway 2 on the western side, via a new bridge across the Hutt River.<\/p>\n

A council tender document said securing the route would be a “critical milestone”.<\/p>\n

The council would be hiring consultants for engineering, planning, environmental assessment, transport planning, traffic engineering, and project management services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two significant moves are underway on major road projects in the North Island. By Phil Pennington of RNZ…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39,112],"class_list":["post-521513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-transport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521513","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=521513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}