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3 April 2020
David
[FYI request #12334 email]
REF: OIA-6472
Dear David
Request made under the Official Information Act 1982
Thank you for your email of 29 February 2020 requesting the following information under the Official
Information Act 1982 (the Act):
… the construction cost (prior to the opening of the road) and the maintenance and operation
(to date, by year, since the opening of the road) for the following roads:
East Taupo Arterial Corridor
Hawke's Bay Expressway
Kapiti Expressway
Northern Gateway
Ruby Bay Bypass
Takitimu Drive
Tauranga Eastern Link
Waikato Expressway
Wellington Inner City Bypass
Could you please separate out the maintenance and operation cost (rather than combine
them).
Excluding the above roads, could you please let me know what other new state highways
have been constructed since 2008?
The table below gives the construction costs for the projects listed in your request.
Project
Cost
Further information
($m)
East Taupo
131.5
www.nzta.govt.nz/assets/planning/monitoring/audits/docs/2016-2017-pir-east-taupo-
Arterial Corridor
arterial.pdf
Hawke's Bay
13
www.nzta.govt.nz/projects/hawkes-bay-expressway-improvements/
Expressway
Kapiti
630
www.nzta.govt.nz/projects/wellington-northern-corridor/mackays-to-peka-peka/
Expressway
Northern
375.7
www.nzta.govt.nz/projects/sh1-northern-gateway-toll-road-ngtr/
Gateway
Ruby Bay
30
www.nzta.govt.nz/projects/ruby-bay-bypass/
Bypass
Takitimu Drive
-
Takitimu Drive was a local roading project later designated as a state highway. As such,
the Transport Agency does not hold the cost information for this project.
www.tauranga.govt.nz/Portals/0/data/council/annual_reports/2016/files/route_k_tolls.pdf
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Project
Cost
Further information
($m)
Tauranga
342
www.nzta.govt.nz/projects/tauranga-eastern-link/
Eastern Link
Waikato
-
The Waikato Expressway is made up of seven separate projects (listed below)
Expressway
- Longswamp
-
Under construction, see www.nzta.govt.nz/projects/waikato-expressway/longswamp/
- Rangiriri
131
www.nzta.govt.nz/projects/waikato-expressway/rangiriri/
- Huntly
384
www.nzta.govt.nz/projects/waikato-expressway/huntly/
- Ngāruawāhia
160
www.nzta.govt.nz/projects/waikato-expressway/ngaruawahia/
- Te Rapa
172
www.nzta.govt.nz/projects/waikato-expressway/te-rapa/
- Hamilton
-
Under construction, see www.nzta.govt.nz/projects/waikato-expressway/hamilton/
- Cambridge
218
www.nzta.govt.nz/projects/waikato-expressway/cambridge/
Wellington Inner
57
www.nzta.govt.nz/projects/sh1-inner-city-bypass/
City Bypass
Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency does not record maintenance and operation costs for individual
sections of state highway, including those sections created through a project. This part of your request is
therefore refused under section 18(e) as the information does not exist or, despite reasonable efforts to
locate it, cannot be found.
The following table provides a list of other new state highways constructed since 2008:
State Highway
Project
Completed
SH2
Mangatawhiri Realignment
October 2008
SH17
Puhoi to Silverdale
January 2009
SH3
Bell Block Bypass
April 2010
SH1
Ohingaiti to Makohine Realignment
November 2010
SH18A
Upper harbour Drive between Albany and
Opened 2010
Greenhithe Bridge
SH20
Southern Motorway to Puhinui Road
March 2011
SH36
Pyes Pa Bypass
June 2011
SH88
Ravensbourne Road Dunedin City
July 2011
SH16 / SH18
Hobsonville Motorway extension
August 2011
SH1
Kamo Bypass Stage 2
September 2011
SH25
Kopu Bridge replacement
December 2011
SH1
Te Rapa Bypass with Limmer Road link
December 2012
SH76
Christchurch Southern Motorway Stage 1
December 2013
SH1
Ngaruawahia Bypass
December 2013
SH2
Papatawa north of Woodville
January 2014
SH2
Arden Cottage Curves, Athenree Gorge
June 2014
SH1
Cambridge Bypass with Tamahere
December 2015
Realignment
SH3
Normanby Overbridge Realignment
January 2017
SH20
Waterview Connection
March 2017
SH1
Rangiriri Bypass
June 2017
SH1
Western Belfast Bypass
November 2017
Please note, the projects in the above list are state highways built on new routes.
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Under section 28 of the Act, you have the right to ask the Ombudsman to review my decision to refuse part
of this request. The contact details for the Ombudsman can be located at
www.ombudsman.parliament.nz.
If you would like to discuss this reply with the NZ Transport Agency, please contact Rob Goossens,
Enterprise Asset Management Project Manager, by email to [email address] or by phone on
(04) 894 5228.
Yours sincerely
Vanessa Browne
Senior Manager – Operational Policy, Planning and Performance
