Wiseley Road - from the shops in Clark Road

Hobsonville - Lack of funding threat to Hobsonville bypass
20.04.05by Mathew Dearnaley
Spiralling road costs threaten to delay a link in the proposed western ring motorway route around Auckland - a 5km bypass of Hobsonville - and have raised jitters further away. Although Transit NZ hoped to start building the $141 million road next summer, the agency told the Auckland Regional Land Transport Committee yesterday that there may not be enough Government money available. This is despite good progress on two other parts of a four-lane Upper Harbour Motorway, a duplicate bridge and a 5km stretch through Greenhithe to the Albany Highway. Transit regional manager Richard Hancy also acknowledged a risk that possible cost increases on the planned Southwestern Motorway extension through Mt Roskill may spell trouble for linking that road to the Southern Motorway at Manukau.