They actually also offered to build another one end of Weymouth Road across the estuary to Karaka for free too which would today take so much pressure off the motorway to get to Pukekohe,Karaka and Waiuku which have now all expanded - imagine that! If you go to the end of Weymouth Road today the road ends on edge of a cliff where they were supposed to start the bridge but got stuck in this thing called red tape and here we are 80 years later…………

Whangaparaoa. It will connect SH1 to Whangaparaoa across the Weiti River.

yeh that too. As well as defining extradosed.

you are dead right - I'm a retired surveyor and the first thing I asked myself when looking at this was 'where the heck is it?' I still have no idea - but would love to know. Great piles though - I used to design systems for marine pile positioning for large bridges globally when I worked for Trimble in NZ

Its in the north of Auckland. Over the Weiti River, from Stillwater to the Whangaparaoa peninsula. A roadway will then link it to state highway 1.

That's good actually! A weekend spent in Stillwater is like turning the clock back forty years and I'd like it to stay that way :)

Agreed.

Me neither and I was born here 58 yrs ago 😂

Absolutely agree, you should let the Auckland Uni Civil engineering crowd know. Cheers Chris retired Civil 😀

winker

yeh that should have been a pretty obvious thing to have explained...

Epic job alright, but 4 lanes are better than 2, just more backward thinking from labour

It’s north of Auckland - Whangaparaoa peninsula. Will connect Whangaparaoa Road and State Highway 1.

@@sevenhelmets forgot !! i have been there . Boat Club etc

It does defy belief!

Enough said

NZ does things cheap. Falling further behind Australia's higher quality infrastructure

Nargh, they'll just put a passing point for slow vehicles to pull into half way down She'll be right mate

Totally agree, typical shortsightedness in planning our road network

What's a pot hole repair? I only know the holes.

Possibly to reduce the impact on a rural area by going over rather than through. Soft ground in a marine environment, and they would need to anticipate the load from a long, tall structure exposed to wind.

Because of the land height on the Northern side.

..to be fair, they are contractors... pay them and they will likely do it. If want the job done for free, do it yourself or ask your local Govt to do it.

If your local council will only pay for 2 guys to throw a shovel load of hotmix at a hole thats what they do.

What a stupid coment.

@@johnsullivan6709 its cold mix, ez street

Yet to see anyone do ez street right, now from a guy being paid by the hour, he can do it right, problem is they are taught wrong and dont understand the methods or wont try. But ez street needs to be banned for use on roads above 60kmh because it never seals and hardens like asphalt does thats why it makes distorted bumps that are worse than a pothole, also alot of blame on ezstreet needs to be put on peoples deaths. More ezstreet usually has more accidents. And if they stop thinning the emulsion so much the bitumen roads will hold better. These contractors are letting you down from correct grades on the road right through to the density and integrity of the final product. And its not as if they do it fast either.

Whangaparoa Peninsula, Auckland NZ. Built to lessen traffic congestion from Silverdale interchange

All important, the price?

@@dennisbevin7979 Grossly overpriced. The total PENLINK (NOT this bs name - mahurangi is 30Km North) is $840Million = $120Mill. per Km.