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All roads lead north u by Andy Bryenton
The Brynderwyn Hills section of State Highway One opened as planned on Wednesday night at midnight, but Minister of Transport Simeon Brown says that the extensive works are not the final fix for a route north.
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Instead, Mr Brown, alongside local MP Grant McCallum, confirmed last Tuesday that the repairs to the steep and winding route are designed to keep Northland open for business while a major new highway comes to fruition. “We know how critical this work is for Northland and for the national economy,” said the minister. “The work here is literally buying time so we can build the alternative.” Simeon Brown called the former government’s cancellation of the Roads of Significance programme an appalling decision. He told gathered television and print media that planning and pricing for the replacement highway was now starting again from ‘square one’. However, he was able to confirm that they had indeed started, with planning p Grant McCallum and Simeon Brown survey the engineering feat achieved in the past weeks atop the Brynderwyn Hills underway ahead of a definitive timeline and costings due this August. called benching has seen the hillsides April 2. The road will then close again at “The new road will be one to last many cut back dramatically and stabilised to 12.01am tomorrow, April 3 until 11.59pm generations,” said Grant McCallum. He prevent closures from future slips and on May 12 to complete the remaining may have to personally give up farmland storm damage. A fleet of 50-tonne trucks work that requires a full closure. to the highway’s construction, depending and excavators has moved 150,000 cubic During this time, routes, funding on its precise route. metres of rock and soil, while helicopters strategies and geological data will be The current works on the Brynderwyn have been deployed to spray stabilising developed to begin the implementation traverse are going well, on schedule and grasses on the new hillsides. of a new, economy-boosting highway on budget due to clement weather and The Brynderwyn traverse opened to system that will eventually link Whangārei a major effort by Fulton Hogan and the all traffic for six days during Easter from and Northport to Auckland, Hamilton New Zealand Transport Agency. A process 12.01am, March 28, until 11.59pm, and Tauranga. ¢
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