Project purpose
With a total length of approximately 110km, the Wellington Northern Corridor road of national significance has been identified as having a key role to play in supporting economic transformation by improving the connections that enable the flow of people, goods and services throughout New Zealand.
Benefits
Completing the Wellington Northern Corridor will unlock economic growth potential regionally and nationally, and deliver a range of benefits including:
- Support for a growing population: the regional population is expected to increase by 65,000 over the next 20 years, mainly in Wellington City and Kapiti
- Support for increasing freight volumes in the region: there will be a 50% increase between 2007 and 2017, with the vast majority of movements by truck
- Improved access to Wellington’s port, CBD, airport and hospital
- Relief from severe congestion on the state highways and local road networks
- Improved safety
- Improved journey time reliability
Features
The Wellington Northern Corridor is being developed as a 110km four-lane expressway from Levin to Wellington Airport and is made up of the following projects (south to north):
- Wellington Inner-City Transport Improvements (Terrace Tunnel duplication, Buckle Street to Cobham Drive which includes transport improvements around the Basin Reserve, a second Mt Victoria Tunnel, widening Ruahine Street and Wellington Road, and a new 2.5km-pedestrian and cycle facility between the Basin Reserve and Cobham Drive.)
- Aotea Quay to Ngauranga
- Linden to MacKays (Transmission Gully)
- Kapiti Expressway
- Otaki to Levin
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