Project-by-project: Where the $12b infrastructure package will be spent around NZ

Wednesday, 29 January 2020

The Government has announced a $12 billion infrastructure package, with $8 billion of announcements up and down the country expected to get started shortly. Here's a list of projects in your area. 

NORTHLAND

Upgrading SH1 Whangarei to Port Marsden to four lanes.

Kaitaia Hospital upgrade

AUCKLAND

Penlink project to open up more growth north of Auckland and connect Whangaparoa residents to the successful northern busway.

Upgrading Mill Road to four lanes and connecting Manukau to Drury to ease traffic on SH1.

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Widening SH1 from Papakura to Drury and building a cycleway alongside it.

A package of improvements to the Wiri to Quay Park Corridor in Auckland, including construction of third line between Wiri and Westfield

Electrification of 19km of rail from Pakakura to Pukukohe.

Drury railway station development

Paediatric INtensive Care Unit at Starship

Kidz First neonatal refurbishment

North Shore Hospital central sterile services refurbishment

WAIKATO-BAY OF PLENTY

Building a roundabout at the intersection of SH1/SH29. This is on the route that future proofs the extension of the Waikato Expressway from Cambridge to Piarere.

A four-lane Tauranga Northern Link and upgrades on SH2 to Omokoroa.

Whakatane Hospital mental health facility

GISBORNE-HAWKE'S BAY

Tairawhiti child youth community health hub

Mobile dental services

Acute mental health facility

WHANGANUI

Mental health facility upgrade for Taranaki

Waimarino health care extension

New regional chemotherapy service

WELLINGTON

Four-laning SH1 from Otaki to North of Levin.

The second stage of SH58 safety improvements for Greater Wellington

The Melling interchange project.

Improvements to rail line between Wellington, Wairarapa and Palmerston North

Mobile dental services

Wellington hospital neonatal bedside and centralised monitoring

Hutt Valley acute mental health facility

Replacement of copper pipes at Wellington Regional Hospital

NELSON MARLBOROUGH

New boilers at Wairau Hospital

CANTERBURY

Brougham street improvements

Rolleston access improvements

SH75 access improvements

West Melton improvements

SH1 Walnut Avenue intersection improvements

SH1 Tinwald corridor improvements

Child and maternity facilities refurbishment

New boilers at Timaru Hospital

QUEENSTOWN

SH6 A corridor improvements

Ladies Mile corridor improvements

SH6 Grant Road to Kawerau Falls improvements

Nationwide

Upgrades to nearly every state school

Boiler upgrades to schools