Government agrees 'in principle' to $10b worth of Northland roading PPPs

Government agrees 'in principle' to $10b worth of Northland roading PPPs
The new Northland expressway has the potential to be more expensive per kilometre than Transmission Gully. (Image: NZTA)
Dileepa Fonseka
The Government has set the ball rolling on a $10 billion Northland expressway roading project, which could be one of the first public private partnership projects taken on by the new Government.Transport Minister Simeon Brown said on Tuesday afternoon that the Government had “agreed in principle” to build a four-lane expressway between Auckland and Whangārei in three phases: Warkworth to Te Hana (just north of Wellsford), an alternative to the Brynderwyn Hills route to Port Marsden, and Port Marsden to Whangārei. In a Request f...

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