Objectives
- Support the managed growth for the area;
- Improve efficiency and contribute to economic development through improved travel time;
- Provide a more direct route to the Port of Tauranga;
- Provide a safer route between Tauranga and Paengaroa.
Construction of the Tauranga Eastern Link officially started on 19 November 2010 and it is expected to open to traffic in 2016.
Tolling received significant community support (92% both conditional and unconditional) and as a result, NZTA submitted a tolling proposal to the Cabinet who approved it. The Order in Council will set out the parameters of the road tolling scheme, including all of the relevant conditions from which the NZTA would be eligible to toll the route – such as when tolling can start, toll tariffs, and how the scheme will operate.
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“Along the journey we commonly forget its goal. Almost every vocation is chosen and entered upon as a means to a purpose but is ultimately continued as a final purpose in itself. Forgetting our objectives is the most frequent stupidity in which we indulge ourselves.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)