Transmission Gully motorway

Purpose

Built to demanding specifications, the design and construction of the Transmission Gully motorway reflects the need for another route between Wellington and the lower and central North Island that will be safer and more reliable for motorists and better able to resist and recover from earthquakes and storms.

The project is highly complex, with difficult and steep terrain requiring large-scale earthworks during construction of the project. 25 new structures equating to a total length of more than a kilometre will be constructed along the route. The largest of these, the Cannons Creek Bridge, will stretch 230 metres in length and sit 60 metres above the valley floor.

The $850 million Transmission Gully motorway is being delivered as a Public Private Partnership (PPP) by Wellington Gateway Partnership in partnership with the New Zealand government. A key part of the Wellington Northern Corridor ‘roads of national significance’, the project is one of the most significant single pieces of new road construction in the lower North Island.

Benefits

The Transmission Gully motorway will:

• significantly reduce the number of fatal and serious injury crashes
• increase capacity and passing opportunities
• provide a more reliable and safer journey for motorists and one that is better able to resist and recover from earthquakes and storms
• provide another route between Wellington and the lower North Island
• reduce traffic congestion and improve safety within communities like Porirua by significantly reducing through traffic
• reduce fuel costs and contribute to economic growth.