Mercer to Longswamp Map
Summary: This section of the Waikato Expressway was completed in July 2006.
Length: 12km
Cost: $82 million
Status: Completed.
Route details:
- Follows current SH1 route
- Eliminates Meremere crash blackspot
- Southbound lanes split from northbound at Mercer, travel east to rejoin at Whangamarino Bridge
- Relocation of 1km of main trunk railway
- Construction of 160m-long bridge over Whangamarino River and railway
- Minimises impacts on Waikato River and Whangamarino Stream
- Includes major interchanges at Mercer and Hampton Downs Road