Future
Several major projects are planned for the Southern Motorway within the next ten years (from 2008). From north to south they are:
- Newmarket Viaduct Replacement - The existing Newmarket Viaduct is six lanes wide, congested, and does not meet today's earthquake standards. Construction began in April 2009 on a new, seven lane structure. There will be one extra southbound lane (four in total) and three northbound with the capability to add a fourth lane in the future. The project is forecast to cost around NZ$215 million and completion is due by the end of 2012.
- SH1-20 East-West corridor linking the southern and western motorways between East Tamaki and Onehunga- Various investigations from the 1960s have reconfirmed the need for the link, the latest showing that if not completed by 2020, traffic in the area will be reduced to a crawl throughout most working days. Freight traffic volumes on local roads along the route are higher than on most state highways across New Zealand. The Eastern Corridor or AMETI (Auckland-Manukau Eastern Transit Initiative) to provide efficient access to the fast growing business and residential suburbs of east and south east Auckland. Multi-billion dollar economic benefits have been shown for this project. Currently the project is being built in small stages that stretch its completion out to the 2030s.
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Famous quotes containing the word future:
“I would sell my life to avoid
the pain that begins in the crib
with its bars or perhaps
with your first breath
when the planets drill
your future into you....”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“If nations always moved from one set of furnished rooms to another—and always into a better set—things might be easier, but the trouble is that there is no one to prepare the new rooms. The future is worse than the ocean—there is nothing there. It will be what men and circumstances make it.”
—Alexander Herzen (1812–1870)
“It is marvelous indeed to watch on television the rings of Saturn close; and to speculate on what we may yet find at galaxy’s edge. But in the process, we have lost the human element; not to mention the high hope of those quaint days when flight would create “one world.” Instead of one world, we have “star wars,” and a future in which dumb dented human toys will drift mindlessly about the cosmos long after our small planet’s dead.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)