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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 ...
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 ...
Te Awamutu, Ōtorohanga, Te Kūiti, New Plymouth, Whanganui, Palmerston North. 489.1. 6 km of the route through the Manawatū Gorge has been closed since 2017 due to landslips and is temporarily replaced by the route over the Saddle Road. The new highway through the gorge is estimated to open in 2024.
Kāpiti Expressway (SH 1) The Kāpiti Expressway is a four-lane grade-separated expressway, stretching 33 km (21 mi) from Mackays Crossing north of Paekākāriki to just north of Ōtaki on the Kapiti Coast. It carries traffic through Raumati, Paraparaumu, Waikanae and Ōtaki. The section from Mackays Crossing to Raumati South was completed in ...
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.
Statistics New Zealand announced in 2017 that the Statistical Standard for Geographic Areas 2018 (SSGA18) would replace the New Zealand Standard Areas Classification 1992 (NZSAC92). The change impacted Wellington most, by splitting it into four urban areas, being the Wellington city and Lower Hutt city "major urban areas" and Porirua and Upper ...
State Highway 5 ( SH 5 ), one of New Zealand's eight national highways, runs from State Highway 1 at Tīrau, in the south Waikato, to State Highway 2, close to the Hawkes Bay coast at Bay View, 10 km north of Napier. It is the second shortest of the national highways. SH 5 is a two-lane single carriageway, except for a two-kilometre section of ...
[6] [7] In 1941, the Honorary Geographic Board of New Zealand renamed the hill to a 57-character name "Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu", which has been an official name since 1948, and first appeared in a 1955 map. [8] The New Zealand Geographic Placenames Database, maintained by Land Information New ...