Glen Innes to Tāmaki Drive Shared Path

COVID-19 update

Work continues

With the move to Alert Level 4, the project team is now based from their homes and work continues. While any work on location must pause, Auckland Transport and Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency are committed to ensuring that there is no interruption to planning work as infrastructure will play a critical role in the economic recovery of New Zealand.

On Section 2, the tender process closed on 12 March and tenders are now being evaluated.  We expect to appoint a construction partner by the end of April/ early May and start work mid-year. However, physical construction will only commence when the Government reduces the COVID-19 Alert level and advices us that it is safe to proceed.

Our Resource Consent application for Section 4 has been lodged with Auckland Council and work on the design continues.

It is our priority to progress with planning and design despite existing circumstances, and whilst we acknowledge that there will be some factors outside of our control, we will do what we can to proceed with construction as soon as it is safe for us to do so.

More about what Section 2 (St Johns Road to Ōrākei Basin)

In our last newsletter, we asked if there is anything specific you would like to know or questions you have about the design or construction of Section 2. The key areas of interest were:

• more detail on the positioning of the path and where people will be able to join it;
• the design of the landings and how comfortable these will be for people on bikes;
• construction staging and whether we would be able to open sections of the path progressively.

We will know more about construction once we have a construction partner on board but will be sharing information about the design, as well as responding to the questions you have raised, in our next update.

Please get in touch with us if there is anything specific you want us to include in our next update, or if you have any questions for the team.

More information

To find out more about the project:

• visit www.nzta.govt.nz/GI2T or www.at.govt.nz/easternpath
• phone 09 355 3553
• email GI2T@nzta.govt.nz