The NZ Transport Agency has awarded Fulton Hogan the contract for a $70 million project upgrading State Highway 20B to Auckland Airport.
This includes additional bus and high occupancy vehicle lanes and new walking and cycling facilities between Pukaki Creek Bridge and SH20. Other work will include median barriers and improved lighting.
The new lanes will support a new bus service every ten minutes between the airport, Puhinui Station and Manukau.
Work to upgrade the Puhinui rail and bus interchange is already underway in a separate project led by Auckland Transport.
New intersections will also be installed at Campana Road and at Manukau Memorial Gardens.
SH20B is one of two primary access routes to the airport with more than 30,000 vehicles per day. The new SH20B lanes are expected to open in 2021.
“Fulton Hogan is very pleased to be selected to deliver this critical piece of infrastructure for the NZ Transport Agency, Auckland International Airport and the wider Auckland community,” Fulton Hogan Auckland regional manager Gavin Riddle says.
“Site establishment will commence in early January, with physical works following shortly after that,” he says.
Auckland Airport chief executive Adrian Littlewood says the new connection will benefit travellers as well as the 20,000 staff who work in and around the airport every day.
“Auckland Airport is one of the country’s fastest growing business precincts, with around half of the staff coming from the surrounding communities. We want these people to enjoy safe and efficient journeys to and from work.
“The investment alongside NZ Transport Agency and Auckland Transport integrates with the work on Auckland Airport’s own roading network, which is adding high-occupancy lanes along the airport’s main roads,” Littlewood says.
