Scoop Coverage: Wellington Northern Corridor
Wednesday, 16 December 2009, 10:13 am
Article: Scoop Full Coverage
Wellington.Scoop: A 4-Lane Expressway To The Airport – But They’re Not Telling Us Where Or How Much
Wellington residents should be troubled by the official silence on how a four-lane expressway is to be pushed through the city from the second Terrace Tunnel to the second Mt Victoria Tunnel. There’s not a word about this in the “corridor fact sheet” released by the New Zealand Transport Agency.
The document isn’t even specific about the “improvements” on the northern edge of the Basin Reserve. More>>
ALSO:
Roads:
Green Light For Transmission Gully, Western Link
Expressway
Transport Minister
Steven Joyce has joined the NZ Transport Agency in unveiling
plans for a $2.2 billion strategic upgrade of State Highway
1 from Wellington Airport to Levin, including Transmission
Gully.
The plans will see a four-lane expressway developed
in three stages, with the entire route substantially
progressed within the next ten years. More>>
ALSO:
Wellington.Scoop coverage - “Billion
dollar” Transmission Gully expressway likely to be a toll
road - (and
more coverage)NZ Transport Agency - Route
announced for Wellington Northern CorridorFact
Sheet (includes map)Questions
and AnswersNZ Govt - Transmission
Gully gets the green lightNZ Govt - Minister
welcomes Kapiti Expressway decisionNational -
Gully
go-ahead to bring jobs and certainty to
ManaNational - Otaki
MP welcomes Transmission Gully and SH1
planUnited Future - Transmission
Gully Christmas present for WgtnLabour - Hard
work pays off for Transmission GullyGreens - Joyce’s
bulldozer to slice through Kapiti, WgtnACT - Transmission
Gully A Victory For WellingtonKapiti Coast
District Council - District
damaged forever, Mayor saysPorirua City Council
- Mayor
Brash Applaudes Transmission Gully
DecisionWellington City Council - Road
corridor plan good news for cityNZ Alliance
Party - Government
paralysis in transport failing NZTransmission
Gully Action Group - Transmission
Gully MotorwayNZ Contractors Federation - Contractors
applaud Wellington highway
“vision”Wellington Regional Chamber of
Commerce - Right
Decision on Wellington Northern
CorridorAutomobile Association - AA
thrilled with plan for SH1 north of
WellingtonNZ Council for Infrastructure
Development - Funding
And Delivery Programme For Roads UpgradeSave
The Basin Reserve Campaign - Fifty
million reasons to save the BasinNature Coast
Enterprise - Nature
Coast Enterprise commends NZTATV3
Video - Transmission
Gully route to go aheadTV3 Video
- Government
gives green light for $2 billion Wellington
motorway********
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