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FRIDAY NOVEMBER 8, 2019
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NOVEMBER 8, 2019
We’ll take the high road... The enormity of the Waikato Expressway project is best viewed from above, as anyone who has viewed the regular video updates from the New Zealand Transport Agency will testify. This shot was from the top of one of the giant cranes used on the project as it
was lifting the final set of beams into place on the Cambridge Road Bridge. The 300-tonne yellow monster has become a regular part of the skyline greeting drivers heading south from Hamilton. The $637 million Hamilton section of the Waikato Expressway represents a
mammoth undertaking to create a road to the east of the city, part of what will become a 100km-long four-lane highway from the Bombay Hills to south of Cambridge – though, at present, not as far south as Karapiro residents were hoping for. Hamilton’s section will take motorists from
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Tamahere in the south to Lake Rd, where the Ngaruawhia section of the expressway commences. It’s the biggest infrastructure job the region has seen and is scheduled for completion in late 2021. Read about the project, and an open day planned for later this month on page 9.