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4 October 2024 |
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Kia ora and welcome to the latest newsletter on Te Ahu a Turanga: Manawatū Tararua Highway – the 11.5km route to reconnect the Manawatū, Tararua District, Hawke’s Bay and northern Wairarapa, replacing the closed State Highway 3 Manawatū Gorge route. |
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Have your say on the proposal for Te Ahu a Turanga by 7 OctoberConsultation is still open for you to have your say on the Te Ahu a Turanga: Manawatū Tararua Highway tolling proposal. The new highway will provide a much safer, resilient and efficient route between the communities of Ashhurst and Woodville. The road will decrease travel times and vehicles operating costs while providing a strategic transport link for freight and businesses. NZTA is seeking feedback on a proposal to place a toll for both light and heavy vehicles across the highway. The proposed toll would be for each time you use the highway. Consultation closes at 5pm on Monday 7 October. To find out more about the proposal and to have your say, visit: nzta.govt.nz/teahuaturanga-tolling In addition to details of the proposal, the website has information on tolling assessments:
Brochures with freepost submission forms are also available at your local library or council office. |
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Great progress continues to be made on the 300-metre-long Parahaki Bridge. Highway's road surface starting to take shapeMore than 5km of the 11.5km Te Ahu a Turanga: Manawatū Tararua Highway is now covered with asphalt, as construction of the road surface continues. Since asphalt placement began in June, pavement construction crews have laid more than 37,000 tonnes of asphalt, about a third of the total needed to complete the road. Assisting with asphalt supply is the project’s own mobile asphalt plant, which has been set up in the middle of the site. This plant will provide 60,000 tonnes of asphalt before completion of the road, or about 60% of the total. The rest is coming from an asphalt plant near Bulls. While significant portions of the road are now covered with asphalt, work continues on placing the lower subbase layers in Zone 4 (Woodville end). About 250,000 tonnes of pavement aggregate has been brought to the project site so far, about 70% of the total required. Elsewhere around the project, good progress continues to be made on the major bridges. At Parahaki Bridge – the 300-metre-long bridge crossing the Manawatū River - 52 of 54 bridge deck segments are now completed. The team has completed the "stitch" that connects the main bridge deck between piers 1 and 2. The northern abutment, where the bridge connects to land on the north side, is also completed. Over the river at the Eco-Viaduct Bridge, the bridge deck is complete and the team is installing the concrete barriers. All the barriers along the western side are now installed. The project’s landscapers have just finished their latest planting season, putting more than 420,000 plants in the ground since it began in April. This brings the total number of plants planted since construction began to 1.5 million. The landscaping team will return early in 2025 to finish off the remaining planting, bringing the project total to 1.8 million plants. The project remains ontrack for completion in the middle of 2025. To find out more about the project or to view the latest flyover, head to: www.nzta.govt.nz/projects/te-ahu-a-turanga/ Below: Nearly 40,000 tonnes of asphalt has been laid to date along the highway. |
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