As you travel west along Upper Harbour Drive between State Highway 1 and Albany Highway, the road narrows to one lane between Paul Matthews Rd and Unsworth Drive. Are there any plans to widen this strip to two lanes, bearing in mind that when the Hobsonville motorway and the Waterview connection are completed, a lot more vehicles will be using this route to head south rather than driving across the harbour bridge and through Spaghetti Junction?
John Saunders, Northcote.
The NZ Transport Agency is beginning investigations into improvements along the Upper Harbour Highway (State Highway 18) which it hopes to develop further and complete in its next three-year funding cycle, 2012-15. The agency's longer-term objective is to upgrade the Constellation Drive interchange so there is a seamless motorway connection between State Highways 1 and 18.
While I think it is great that the two new motorway extensions linking Westgate to the Greenhithe Bridge and Westgate to Kumeu are opening next month, I find it really strange that the two have not been linked together. If you are travelling from Kumeu and want to go over to the North Shore, you have to drive all the way through Whenuapai (at 50km/h) and enter the motorway from Trigg Rd or further on at Hobsonville. Are there any plans in the future for the two new extensions to be linked?
Tracey Bos, Kumeu.