Public Notification and Submission Period to also be opened
This Saturday and Sunday in Manukau City Centre Auckland Transport is having two open days on the controversial Redoubt Road-Mill Road Corridor project.
Information
Public information days
The Redoubt Road – Mill Road Corridor project is being publicly notified for submissions. Find out more at these public information days:
- 17 April 2015
Westfield Manukau (centre court), 11am to 2pm.- 18 April 2015
Westfield Manukau (centre court), 10am to 1pm.Download the public information boards (PDF 2.18MB).
Source: https://at.govt.nz/projects-roadworks/redoubt-road-mill-road-corridor/
The Brochure (information boards linked above)
Do not forget to put your submissions in. I will be in opposition to this project at the scale it is.
It was designed for when the Southern Motorway was not due to be upgraded for another 10 years. Now that the motorway upgrade starts in October it negates the need for a 4-lane de-facto motorway. What it should be is this:
Talking Southern Auckland 
I believe this road is needed and am disappointed its going to take so long to join up to Drury on ramp. I support the so called “Monster” and I know a lot of people at the southern end do.
What everyone is missing is the growth taking part in this part of Auckland (Addison, major subdivisions underway on Papakura- Clevedon Rd, Airfield Road, Porchester Rd, Grove Rd, Walters Rd, Clevedon township, and Flat Bush). Then we have the Stevenson’s project at Drury. Hats off to Auckland Transport for doing something now before the road congestion gets out of control – if isn’t already. It’s only a matter of time before the tail on Cosgrave/Mill heading north in the morning is back onto the Papakura-Clevedon Rd. Are all those cars from the new subdivisions going to use the existing on ramps at Karaka, Takanini, Hill Rd, Redoubt Rd on ramps? – these queues in the morning are at least 3km long as it is.
http://transportblog.co.nz/2015/04/16/mill-road-economic-evaluation/
That gives the economics of the northern section of the corridor to which I have left a comment in there.
Just briefly on the Southern Section I have not commented on that section yet as it has not come up for discussion. That said the Papakura to Drury bit is needed and I support given the Drury South Industrial complex about to get going down there.
As for the northern section this is where I am going to have to disagree for reasons here:
Right there is the main question of ‘Do We Need It – at such a scale?’ The answer is no.
Do we need it at a lesser less gold plated scale? The answer is yes.
Is Auckland Transport and more to the point Auckland Council via the Auckland Plan missing something here? The answer to that is definitely!
For all purposes I am commenting on the current Northern Section of the Mill Road Corridor, not the Southern Section. And to keep things clear I live in Papakura five minutes away from the Mill Road corridor, I also use the corridor as well as a bypass link to Manukau when the motorway packs it (which is often) or to get to East Auckland.
Now the Mill Road Corridor project’s original purpose when it was born back in the Manukau City Council days was to bypass a Southern Motorway that was not due for upgrading until 2025. Auckland Council AND Auckland Transport hold onto this legacy mantra despite thanks to Judith Collins and Calum Penrose the motorway upgrade starting this October. Thus with the motorway upgrade to get under way it negates the need for this 4-lane defacto motorway.
All that is needed know is safety upgrades, provisions for bus lanes for when the area develops (in the case of Redoubt Road that would be now), and the provision of actual grade separated cycle lanes rather than painted ones.
But reading Stu’s article it seems the entire exercise if we look at all the information presented by Auckland Transport leads to AT presenting a self defeating argument (bit like RoNS). Council’s support behind it for similar reasons leads to a self defeating situation as well.
What Bryce showed me makes more sense along with the upgrades I mentioned earlier https://voakl.net/?attachment_id=10204
It reality it is east-west connections missing rather than a snaking north-south connection. The case for the Manukau Rail South Link becomes extremely clear cut using Bryce’s bus to rail links with AT and Council recognising Manukau City Centre as a major employment centre and people heading towards it from the South and South East. Anyone from Murphy’s Road area needing the Southern to go north should be using Te Irirangi Drive. For Manukau, Airport and Wiri this is where the Te Irirangi bus way or the Botany Line Sky Train would come in.
I could go on but that is best put for my own post (https://voakl.net/2015/04/16/action-stations-south-auckland-needs-your-help-motorways-again/ ) and eventual submission.
The congestion as you put it would be battled through Southern Motorway upgrade about to start and the East West public transport links into the rail corridor for any one going north or west to Wiri or the Airport. Do that and Mill Road 4 lane-ing need disappears along with that extra congestion.
https://www.toko.org.nz/petitions/save-graham-s-bush
https://www.facebook.com/savegrahamsbush/posts_to_page
Ben,
please get in touch with us so we can fight this monster proposal from AT together.
Thanks
Contact me on view[dot]of[dot]auckland[at]gmail[dot]com please
I am going to write up an Action Stations post this morning and will be more than happy to give guest blog posts to the campaign on the Mill Road Corridor project.
Thank you for getting behind this. My elderly mother has not been able to sell her Redoubt Rd house because of the ridiculous extent of this proposed roading development. Redoubt Rd does not need to become 4 lanes and the Murphy Rd intersection need to be re – designed to avoid the unnecessary destruction of two or three landmark properties.
It is time there is real public debate, intelligent decision making and compassion shown around this roading project.