The Waterview Connection is a motorway section through west/central Auckland, New Zealand. It connects State Highway 20 in the south at Mt Roskill to State Highway 16 in the west at Point Chevalier, a
Alice the Tunnel Boring Machine during the construction of the Waterview Tunnel
Oakley Creek, near where the bored tunnels in the final (2010) alignments stop (and was joined to cut and cover built tunnels for the last section towards SH16).
Local protests, such as here at the end of the existing stub of SH20, played a role in a combined surface and tunnel being reconsidered.
Alice the TBM near the start of her journey in October 2013. Te Hauranga Hau, an artwork designed for the project, can be seen on the left.
The Lyttelton road tunnel runs through the Port Hills to connect the New Zealand city of Christchurch and its seaport, Lyttelton. It opened in on 27 February 1964 and carries just over 10,000 vehicles
Waterview Connection
…the Western Ring Route. The Waterview Connection is 4.5 km long, of which 2.5 km are in the form of twin tunnels. The Waterview Tunnel supersedes the Lyttelton Road Tunnel as New Zealand's longest road tunnels. By 2026, the link is expected to carry 83,000 vehicles a day. There are three lanes of traffic in each tunnel…
The Lyttelton tunnel portal at the southern end
Southern (Lyttelton) portal of the Lyttelton road tunnel under construction in 1964
Northern (Heathcote) portal of the Lyttelton road tunnel in 2010
Southern (Lyttelton) portal of the Lyttelton road tunnel in 2010