October 2021 - January 2022
Transmission Gully what went wrong?
TRANSPORT
With an initial opening date of April 2020 at an estimated cost of $850m, the now $1.25b project is still unfinished with no clear opening date in sight, the Dominion Post's Josh MacManus and Sophie Cornish report
After more than a billion dollars and a century of waiting, drivers should now be saving a precious 11 minutes on trips to or from Wellington. Instead, communities have again been left in the lurch. The coastal highway continues to back up with traffic, creating crash risks and resilience issues for the capital 46 infrastructurenews.co.nz
and surrounding regions. The opening day has been delayed indefinitely, with no clear indication of when a new date might be announced. It is the fifth time the deadline has been pushed back. Delays, cost blowouts, and construction issues have dominated headlines about the project for decades.
