In order to advancing the country\u2019s Roads of National Significance (RoNS) program, at a joint press conference, prime minister Christopher Luxon and transport minister Chris Bishop announced NZ$1.2bn (US$690m) in funding for the planning, early works and property acquisition, whereas it includes the two tunnels for Wellington, a second Mt Victoria Tunnel and a second Terrace Tunnel, which takes SH1 through the city.<\/p>\n
According to Luxon: “The projects would receive fast-track approval by cutting the red tape that had stymied many of New Zealand\u2019s infrastructure projects. We need to act now to future-proof the country\u2019s infrastructure.”<\/p>\n
The NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi has endorsed investment cases for the road projects,17 in total, and the funding has been approved.<\/p>\n
The new Mt Victoria road tunnel will include a 3.6m-wde walking and cycling path.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In order to advancing the country\u2019s Roads of National Significance (RoNS) program, at a joint press conference, prime minister Christopher Luxon and transport minister Chris Bishop announced NZ$1.2bn (US$690m) in funding for the planning, early works and property acquisition, whereas it includes the two tunnels for Wellington, a second Mt Victoria Tunnel and a second Terrace Tunnel, which takes SH1 through the city. According to Luxon: “The projects would receive fast-track approval by cutting the red tape that had stymied many of New Zealand\u2019s infrastructure projects. We need to act now to future-proof the country\u2019s infrastructure.” The NZ Transport Agency […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":19779,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[5216,415,5215,5217,47],"class_list":["post-19778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-mt-victoria-tunnel","tag-new-zealand","tag-roads-of-national-significance-rons-program","tag-terrace-tunnel","tag-tunneling","post--single"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19780,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19778\/revisions\/19780"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}