The opening of a new section of continuous bus shoulder on Auckland’s Northern Motorway completes the final phase in a project to improve congestion at one of the city’s significant bottlenecks.
There are plans to extend the dedicated busway to Albany Station.
Another round of public consultation on the plans for the Northern Corridor Improvements will begin in the next few months.
The newly opened 1km southbound bus shoulder between Greville Road and Constellation Drive on the Northern Motorway (SH1) is the last section of the Upper Harbour Highway to Greville Road widening project aimed at addressing pressure on SH1 and the Albany centre due to the area’s population and housing growth.
It is the first construction project to be completed by the NZ Transport Agency as part of the government’s accelerated programme of works to improve Auckland’s transport infrastructure.
The bus shoulder will improve journey times and reliability for morning peak time commuters on the Northern Express busway.
It will allow city-bound buses to take priority and avoid merging with other peak time traffic on the motorway, before they enter the dedicated Northern busway corridor at Constellation Bus Station.
