Transmission Gully progress towards opening

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#2887556 17-Mar-2022 12:03

https://nzta.govt.nz/media-releases/waka-kotahi-directs-contractor-to-open-transmission-gully-by-end-of-march/

Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency ... has instructed the contractor to open the road to traffic before the end of this month

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#2887558 17-Mar-2022 12:05

Hope the costs stack up, especially with the reduced NLTF and general reduction in VKT that feeds it... Aware that the Crown is topping up, but this is only temporary during the international fuel market issues.

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#2887563 17-Mar-2022 12:19

Benoire:

Hope the costs stack up, especially with the reduced NLTF and general reduction in VKT that feeds it... Aware that the Crown is topping up, but this is only temporary during the international fuel market issues.

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#2887565 17-Mar-2022 12:24

National Land Transport Fund - about 70-80c of each litre of petrol goes in to this ring fenced fund for the construction and maintenance of national state highways and partial funding for Councils roading projects. VKT is vehicle kilometers travelled, essentially under the current system, the more you drive the larger the NLTF gets.. its basically a self enforcing system that requires people to drive to fund the construction/maintenace of new road/street assets. Any removal of this, e.g. EVs, bikes, PT etc. reduces the VKT and therefore the money in the NLTF. VKT is dropping across the country (more so in Auckland) but the big PPPs are still set on the same terms when they where agreed and so if the NLTF reduces, the PPPs take the same amount of money which leaves less for elsewhere.

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#2887612 17-Mar-2022 15:30

GregV:

https://nzta.govt.nz/media-releases/waka-kotahi-directs-contractor-to-open-transmission-gully-by-end-of-march/

Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency ... has instructed the contractor to open the road to traffic before the end of this month

Had a laugh with some of the guys at work, as the notice does not say which year... end of March 2022, 2023, 2024...?

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#2887678 17-Mar-2022 16:09

But it does..?

before the end of this month

allow the public to use the road before the end of March 2022

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#2887824 17-Mar-2022 18:21

Hah, so it does. My apologies, it was the stuff article we were joking about.

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#2887916 17-Mar-2022 21:49

Benoire:

NLTF National Land Transport Fund. VKT is vehicle kilometers travelled,

Of course, silly of me, everyday acronyms that everyone knows.

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#2887917 17-Mar-2022 21:50

eracode:

Benoire:

National Land Transport Fund - VKT is vehicle kilometers travelled,

Of course, silly of me, everyday acronyms that everyone knows.

Sorry I work in the industry so I don't even think about these things.

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#2887920 17-Mar-2022 22:18

All we need now is the same sort of thing heading East on SH2....!

2065 should see that open.

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#2887929 17-Mar-2022 23:30

Geektastic:
All we need now is the same sort of thing heading East on SH2....!

2065 should see that open.

Tunnel through, like the train.

Dig a new tunnel, run a rail track AND a road across in it. Would totally open up that corridor from Upper Hutt to Wairarapa.

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#2888676 19-Mar-2022 09:57

GregV:

https://nzta.govt.nz/media-releases/waka-kotahi-directs-contractor-to-open-transmission-gully-by-end-of-march/

Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency ... has instructed the contractor to open the road to traffic before the end of this month

2 minutes 35 seconds into this interview with Porirua mayor Anita Baker she states she has diary appointments for blessings on 29 and 30 March. I guess that means open to the public on the 31st.

(It's beyond me why a hunk of concrete needs to be blessed but OK.)

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#2888817 19-Mar-2022 18:36

Is the speed limit really going to be 80kph - see picture in https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/wellington/128101425/why-has-transmission-gully-taken-so-long-and-what-now

Surely not.......

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#2888822 19-Mar-2022 18:47

Lightbulb:
Is the speed limit really going to be 80kph - see picture in https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/wellington/128101425/why-has-transmission-gully-taken-so-long-and-what-now

Surely not.......

I suspect that speed sign is for state highway 58.
I suspect the sign is ‘motorway ends’ from its location in the picture.

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#2891101 24-Mar-2022 08:49

GregV:

https://nzta.govt.nz/media-releases/waka-kotahi-directs-contractor-to-open-transmission-gully-by-end-of-march/

Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency ... has instructed the contractor to open the road to traffic before the end of this month

Six more sleeps (at most) 😀...

...or the sixth deadline missed?😟

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