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New Zealand Upgrade Programme
On 29 January 2020, the New Zealand Upgrade Programme was announced by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. The programme was a $12 billion infrastructure package to improve roads, rail, hospitals and schools around the country. A total of $8 billion was initially allocated and the other $4 billion made part of the infrastructure section of the 2020 budget.
Under the Labour coalition, a 2018 Government Policy Statement on transport gave greater priority to public transport spending.
The government allocated $6.8 billion into transport: $5.3 billion on roads and $1.1 billion on rail. Auckland is to receive $3.48 billion of the transport funding.
Seven highway projects in the North Island with cost $4.63 billion and are to be built over the following five to eight years. Some of them were formerly 'Roads of National Significance'.
Auckland receives $2.2 billion to be put towards roads, which mayor Phil Goff says will be put toward the $1.3 billion Mill Road highway, set to begin construction in late 2022, and the $411 million Penlink toll road between Whangaparāoa Peninsula and State Highway 1, set to start in late 2021 and be complete by 2025. State Highway 1 between Papakura and Drury South would also be widened from four to six lanes.
Wellington receives $1.35 billion, including funding for the $258 million Melling interchange set to start construction in late 2022 and expected to be completed by 2026, as well as $59 million going towards the improvement of State Highway 58 between Hutt Valley and Porirua. A new four-lane highway would be built from Ōtaki to north of Levin, bypassing the existing two-lane State Highway 1; this project will cost $817 million and start construction in 2025 with an estimated completion date of 2029.
$991 million is to be spent in Waikato and the Bay of Plenty, including constructing the Tauranga Northern Link, widening State Highway 2 from Te Puna to Omokoroa to four lanes, and a roundabout at the SH 1/SH 29 intersection at Piarere. The Tautanga Northern Link is planned to connect State Highway 29 to State Highway 2 at Te Puna, with a cost of $478 million and a construction start date of late 2020, set to be completed by 2025.
$692 million is to be spent in Northland on a four-lane highway from Marsden Point to Whangārei.
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New Zealand Upgrade Programme
On 29 January 2020, the New Zealand Upgrade Programme was announced by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. The programme was a $12 billion infrastructure package to improve roads, rail, hospitals and schools around the country. A total of $8 billion was initially allocated and the other $4 billion made part of the infrastructure section of the 2020 budget.
Under the Labour coalition, a 2018 Government Policy Statement on transport gave greater priority to public transport spending.
The government allocated $6.8 billion into transport: $5.3 billion on roads and $1.1 billion on rail. Auckland is to receive $3.48 billion of the transport funding.
Seven highway projects in the North Island with cost $4.63 billion and are to be built over the following five to eight years. Some of them were formerly 'Roads of National Significance'.
Auckland receives $2.2 billion to be put towards roads, which mayor Phil Goff says will be put toward the $1.3 billion Mill Road highway, set to begin construction in late 2022, and the $411 million Penlink toll road between Whangaparāoa Peninsula and State Highway 1, set to start in late 2021 and be complete by 2025. State Highway 1 between Papakura and Drury South would also be widened from four to six lanes.
Wellington receives $1.35 billion, including funding for the $258 million Melling interchange set to start construction in late 2022 and expected to be completed by 2026, as well as $59 million going towards the improvement of State Highway 58 between Hutt Valley and Porirua. A new four-lane highway would be built from Ōtaki to north of Levin, bypassing the existing two-lane State Highway 1; this project will cost $817 million and start construction in 2025 with an estimated completion date of 2029.
$991 million is to be spent in Waikato and the Bay of Plenty, including constructing the Tauranga Northern Link, widening State Highway 2 from Te Puna to Omokoroa to four lanes, and a roundabout at the SH 1/SH 29 intersection at Piarere. The Tautanga Northern Link is planned to connect State Highway 29 to State Highway 2 at Te Puna, with a cost of $478 million and a construction start date of late 2020, set to be completed by 2025.
$692 million is to be spent in Northland on a four-lane highway from Marsden Point to Whangārei.
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