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Dominion Road

Dominion Road is an arterial road in Auckland, New Zealand, running north–south across most of the Auckland isthmus. It is a major public transport route that carries 50,000 bus passengers each week.

The road, which passes through mostly suburban areas (and several town centres), has a mix of shops.

Many Asian restaurants line the road between Valley Road and Kensington Avenue. A "Dumplings on Dominion" Festival was held in 2020 to celebrate one aspect of Chinese cuisine, with 37 businesses taking part. A sculpture of noodles being pulled by chopsticks from underground was exhibited in two places on Dominion Road between 2015 and 2021.

The road is the longest stretch of straight road on the Auckland isthmus, stretching from the northern part of Mount Eden to the Manukau Harbour.

The road was created in the late 1840s by Cornish settler John Walters, who made the path to better connect his farm (at modern-day Bellevue Road) to Eden Terrace in the north. The road was developed in the 1860s, and for much of its early life was known as Mt Roskill Road. The road's name was changed in 1907, to celebrate the proclamation of New Zealand becoming a Dominion. In the 1910s, the road stopped at Landscape Road (then known as Boundary Road), as further to the south, a series of small hills known to early Aucklanders as the Kopjes hindered travel.

The road was extended to the south in the 1920s, and in 1929 the road to the south which met Hillsborough Road, Arkell Road, was renamed as Dominion Road Extension.

Around the late 1920s more than 15,000 people used the road for either travel or commerce.

Dominion Road was proposed as a new motorway route south from the CBD in the 1960s. In the early 1960s, a flyover was constructed at the intersection of Dominion Road and New North Road, removing many houses and commercial buildings. With the exception of the interchange, this proposal never came to pass. In 2014 a proposal was made to demolish the interchange.

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