In less than six months traffic is expected to be flowing through the 5.9km Longswamp site on the new four-lane highway.

This expressway section involves widening of the existing State Highway 1 and we are now reaching the end of lane-building and focusing on pavement – the layers of rock and finer materials which support the road surface.

The road will have a chipseal surface ahead of a thick layer of Stone Mastic Asphalt laid.

The July project update looks at what’s been happening and what’s ahead as the project heads to the finish line, and we also explain how stormwater from the road is treated in man-made intensively-planted wetlands.

Read that here