Aucklanders stuck with Warkworth’s dreaded intersection for longer than expected

1 April 2022

The ‘satellite’ town of Warkworth in North Auckland is being developed at breakneck speed in anticipation of a new billion dollar motorway, but the New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) can’t say when the motorway will be completed.

Meanwhile, Auckland Transport’s $27 million Matakana Link Road, designed to help ease traffic at Warkworth’s loathed Hill Street intersection, is nearing completion, but it won’t be able to open.

Auckland Transport said it would have to wait until an intersection between the Link Road and the motorway had been completed by NZTA to open the road, and it hadn’t received any indication when that might be.

Auckland developer Templeton Group is pouring $350 million into a new suburb located directly at the end of the motorway which will also be accessed via the Matakana Link Road.