The Transmission Gully motorway project is now past the halfway mark and on track for its 2020 opening.
Project director Boyd Knights says earthworks has progressed well with good weather over the summer period and a strong workforce of up to 950 people.
“With two years of physical works left to go, we’re in a great position moving into the next phases of works for the new motorway,” Boyd says.
The 27 kilometre four-lane motorway will run from Mackays Crossing to Linden, through Transmission Gully.
Four interchanges and two new link roads will connect the route to Mackays, SH58, eastern Porirua and Kenepuru.
The total cost of the project is $850 million.
Key milestones so far include:
· Six million cubic metres of earth moved.
· Five kilometres of gas pipeline relocations.
· Four of the project’s 27 structures complete.
· Eight kilometres of new motorway at pre-pavement level.
· One-and-a-half kilometres of permanent stream diversions complete.
