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State Highway 1 (New Zealand) State Highway 1 ( SH 1) is the longest and most significant road in the New Zealand road network, running the length of both main islands. It appears on road maps as SH 1 and on road signs as a white number 1 on a red shield, but it has the official designations SH 1N in the North Island, SH 1S in the South Island ...
The New Zealand state highway network is the major national highway network in New Zealand. Nearly 100 roads in the North and South Islands are state highways. All state highways are administered by the NZ Transport Agency . The highways were originally designated using a two-tier system, national (SH 1 to 8) and provincial, with national ...
Low-income countries now have the highest annual road traffic fatality rates, at 24.1 per 100,000, while the rate in high-income countries is lowest, at 9.2 per 100,000. [ 3 ] Seventy-four percent of road traffic deaths occur in middle-income countries, which account for only 53 percent of the world's registered vehicles.
State Highway 2 ( SH 2) runs north–south through eastern parts of the North Island of New Zealand from the outskirts of Auckland to Wellington. It runs through Tauranga, Gisborne, Napier, Hastings and Masterton. It is the second-longest highway in the North Island, after State Highway 1, which runs the length of both of the country's main ...
388. Twin Coast Discovery Highway – Auckland (via Waiwera) Formerly SH 17. Toll-free route south. SH 1/Twin Coast Discovery Highway concurrency ends. SH 1 becomes Auckland Northern Motorway. 389. 242. Johnstone's Hill Tunnels.
The Auckland Southern Motorway (also known as the Southern Motorway, and historically as the Auckland–Hamilton Motorway) is the major route south out of the Auckland Region of New Zealand. It is part of State Highway 1 . The motorway is 45 kilometres in length, with 28 junctions including termini. It runs from the Central Motorway Junction in ...
Drunk driving is a major issue in New Zealand, especially among young drivers. New Zealand has relatively low penalties for drunk driving. In the late 2000s, reports indicated that the rate of drunk driving by under 20s in Auckland had risen 77% in three years, with similar increases in the rest of the country.
Southern Scenic Route. The Southern Scenic Route is a tourist highway in New Zealand linking Queenstown, Fiordland, Te Anau and the iconic Milford Road to Dunedin via, Riverton, Invercargill and The Catlins. [1] An Australian travel magazine labelled it "one of the world's great undiscovered drives" in 2008.