2. Working with our communities

Our blending plant at Lake Road is being disassembled and moved to a new site at Puketaha over the coming weeks. Rock deliveries to the new site will increase truck traffic on Puketaha Road over the next eight months. To ensure safe movements in and out of our site entrance on Puketaha Road, our truck routes are designed to be ‘left in, left out’. This means no trucks will turn right when entering or exiting the site.

We’ve been keeping our neighbours informed too. After consulting with staff at Puketaha Primary School, we’ve changed the route our trucks will take returning to their quarries. This means they will avoid the area where parents drop off their children and pick them up after school.

3. Asphalt plant taking shape

Our dedicated asphalt plant at Ruakura is fast taking shape. Our video below shows machines and operators forming the large rock pad the machinery will sit on. The plant is expected to be producing asphalt by the end of October 2020.

4. Gully restoration has begun

More than 100,000 native seedlings are being planted in the southern gullies this year – the first stage in restoring 10ha of gully habitat where we’ve built bridges over the gully streams.

The objective is to leave the gullies in better condition than we found them. At the Mangaonua Gully, invasive willows and weeds are being cleared. 100,000 seedlings are being planted this year and 33,000 more next winter. Clearing and restoration is also planned in the Mangaone and Mangaharakeke Gullies next winter to restore native vegetation, control pests and provide habitat for native birds, bats and lizards.

5. Intersection on the move

Residents of Cherry Lane and Bollard Road in Tamahere have been using a temporary access on to SH1 while we build their new link road. In September that temporary intersection will be moved 155m north of its current location. This will allow us to carry out earthworks and road construction through to the Tamahere Interchange and improve our sequencing of works. The new intersection will open in mid-September 2020.

Read more about our works in Tamahere here.

More information

For more information on the Hamilton section of the Waikato Expressway, contact us at waikatoexpressway@nzta.govt.nz or phone us on 0800 322 044.

Visit our website www.nzta.govt.nz/hamilton