Waikato Expressway
The Waikato Expressway is the key strategic transport corridor for the Waikato region, and has been identified by the government as a Road of National Significance.
The project will improve safety and reduce travel times and congestion on State Highway 1 between Auckland and Cambridge by providing a 94.5 km long continuous four-lane expressway from Mercer in the north through to just south of Cambridge.
The Waikato Expressway is being constructed in sections as priorities are determined and funding becomes available.
The individual projects that make up the expressway are:
- Mercer to Longswamp (Completed)
- Longswamp to Te Kauwhata four-laning
- Rangiriri Bypass (Four Laning)
- Rangiriri to South of Ohinewai (Completed)
- Huntly Bypass (South of Ohinewai to Taupiri)
- Ngaruawahia Bypass (Taupiri to Horotiu)
- Te Rapa Bypass
- Hamilton Bypass (Horotiu to Tamahere)
- Tamahere to Cambridge Four-Laning
- Cambridge Bypass
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FAQs
What is the Waikato Expressway? An expressway is in place from the end of Auckland’s Southern Motorway at the top of the Bombay Hills to Longswamp and from Rangiriri to Ohinewai. More
What benefits will this project bring? Typical travelling times will be cut by at least 20 minutes (Cambridge to Mercer) and 10 minutes (Hamilton to Mercer).More
What will be done in the short-term to manage SH1 traffic flows through Hamilton? NZTA is developing a number of city arterial projects to increase capacity on the current state highway.More
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