Truck drivers and motorists will no longer be frustrated by each other and by congestion at the Panmure roundabout come November.
Te Horeta Road – which is Auckland’s newest road – is expected to take thousands of trucks a day off Panmure roads when it opens to traffic.
Auckland Transport will open the new 1.5km road in Panmure to traffic on Sunday, November 2. The road goes through a 220m tunnel, has new cycle lanes and a shared cycle and foot path alongside, which will all open at the same time.
Te Horeta road is expected to carry 20,000 vehicles a day, including 2400 trucks.
It will link Morrin Rd to Mt Wellington Highway to cut peak journey times between Mt Wellington and Glen Innes.The direct link will bypass the Panmure roundabout and Ellerslie-Panmure Highway, easing congestion on this route.
The 220m tunnel runs alongside the rail line at Panmure Station between Mountain Rd and Ellerslie-Panmure Highway. A new road for Panmure Station has been built on top of it.
About 5000 truckloads (44,000m3) of basalt rock from Mt Wellington lava flows was removed for the tunnel. The rock was crushed and re-used to build the new road and two new bridges on the Ellerslie-Panmure Highway.
