Why is NZTA so obsessed with NOT upgrading SH58 ?

Mayor angry SH58 ‘ignored’ again

Fix up State Highway 58 before looking at “some dream new road” costing $250 million, Upper Hutt Mayor Wayne Guppy says.

The NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) says the Petone-Grenada Link Road – a proposed six-lane highway up the steep hill just south of Korokoro and eventually linking to Transmission Gully – offers major benefits to the Hutt Valley and wider region.

But Mr Guppy is unconvinced, and had said the proposed link would be the “death” of the Seaview/Gracefield commercial and industrial area as new development land in Grenada North is opened up for warehousing, trucking and hubbing operations.  more on Stuff…