May 13
Bulldozing parks, roads and homes
The new route for the Waterview connection of SH20 has been announced. It will plow through Alan Wood Reserve, before diving under New North Road, surface briefly alongside Blockhouse Bay Rd and Able Turner Field (those houses will be gone), before travelling underneath Great North Road down to the Waterview Interchange (a double decker road). The tunnel under Great North Road is going to be cut-and-cover meaning there will be horrendous traffic problems while it is dug up. Not looking forward to that. Is there any hope this won’t happen? I guess the good news is this route avoids destroying Oakley Creek reserve next to Great North Road.
Michael Barnett is happy.
May 13th, 2009 at Wednesday, 11:16 pm
Your house is saved!
May 14th, 2009 at Thursday, 11:19 am
Might have been good if they had bought my house. Getting out of my street is going to be a nightmare while they dig up Great North Rd. It’s good that Oakley Creek is safe, but too bad for the other parks and homes.
Still according to Melissa Lee it will keep the criminal South Aucklanders out. Perhaps she would prefer to build a wall around Papatoetoe?
May 15th, 2009 at Friday, 12:17 am
Once again Auckland manages to ruin a fairly good idea by scrimping on a few dollars.
September 4th, 2009 at Friday, 5:56 pm
I am horrified by what will be happening to the Alan Wood
Reserve! It is time to encourage people to cycle and take
public transport – not to spend $1.4 billion on another
motorway!