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building of a 26km four-lane expressway from Te Hana, north of Wellsford, to the newly-opened Puhoi to Warkworth SH1 motorway.

“This will see a continuous four-lane state highway with separation between traffic travelling in opposite directions,” the document states. “It will include wide lanes and sealed shoulders and will provide safe roadsides clear of obstacles.”

Benefits of the plan, National says, include improved resilience through a reliable alternative route between Warkworth and Wellsford, and an approximately seven-minute reduction in travel time for the 11,300 vehicles travelling between Warkworth and Wellsford each day.

It will also remove the need for vehicles to travel through the Dome Valley, “a dangerous and unreliable stretch of road which is often closed due to landslides and slippages”.

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National says the project is expected to begin in four to10 years’ time, and to cost $2.2 billion – the most expensive of the four stages outlined for its Whangārei to Tauranga four-lane proposal. The other three are the Whangārei to Port Marsden highway ($1.3 billion), Cambridge to Piarere expressway ($721 million) and the Tauriko West SH 29 in western Tauranga ($1.9 billion).

Parker immediately called Nationals’ numbers into question, saying they were outdated and didn’t take into account hikes in road building costs in the past two years. He said National’s $2.2 billion estimate for the Warkworth to Wellsford expressway was as much as $1.8 billion below that of the latest Waka Kotahi estimate of $3.5-$4 billion.

The National document did include in its costing summary a $1.4 billion contingency for any overruns in costs.

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