Project newsletter – March 2021

Watch the flythrough video from February 2021.

Kia ora

Kia ora and welcome to our Autumn update from the Transmission Gully team.

With less than six months to go till the Transmission Gully motorway opens to traffic, it’s full steam ahead onsite. Construction work on Transmission Gully is 92% complete and earthworks is now 99.6% complete.

Check out our latest fly through of the project (captured in February 2021) to see how far we’ve come.

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Paving the Transmission Gully motorway

The team are 52% through the paving programme. The paving on Transmission Gully is made up of both granular pavements (with chip seal surfacing) and structural (deep lift) asphalt pavements. Take a look at how our structural asphalt pavement is made in the video.

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The mobile asphalt plant being assembled onsite at Lanes Flat, Pāuatahanui.

New temporary asphalt plant at Lanes Flat

For the next three to four months, drivers along SH58 at Pāuatahanui may spot a new addition to the Transmission Gully site compound at Lanes Flat – a mobile asphalt plant.

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The new Transmission Gully connections at Linden.

Southern connection at Linden

There has been some public discussion recently about how southbound Transmission Gully traffic will merge with traffic on the old SH1 (coastal route) at Linden.

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Preparatory works are underway on the Kenepuru interchange.

Kenepuru Interchange works

Nightworks are underway on Kenepuru Drive in preparation for the construction of a new two-lane roundabout, part of the Transmission Gully project’s Kenepuru Interchange.

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The Fulton Hogan paving team laying structural asphalt South of Pouāwhā, The Wainui Saddle

Keeping you up to date

We continue to remind all members of the public to stay safe and not enter the project site at any time. Work is underway in multiple areas and it remains a high hazard area.

If you have any questions, please contact us at info@tg.co.nz. If you have an urgent matter, please call the 24-hour project hotline on 0800 TGINFO. If we are working outside of our normal work hours and you’re one of our neighbours, we’ll be in touch with you directly as usual.

In our next newsletter, we check out how concrete kerb and channels (a.k.a. gutters) are made using a Slipform machine.

But for now, haere ra from the Transmission Gully team.

More information

For more information on the Transmission Gully motorway project, contact us at 0800 TG INFO (0800 84 4636) or email us at info@tg.co.nz

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