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Pressure group Fix Hill Street Now posted billboards decrying the fact Hill Street was absent from Council’s 10-year budget.
Rodney Councillor Greg Sayers says the Hill Street intersection looks likely to figure in Auckland Council’s 10-year budget, following a meeting with the Auckland Transport board of directors.
Late last week, Cr Sayers says he has secured indications from the board that $7 million will, in all probability, be set aside to purchase land and secure a resource consent to upgrade the troubled intersection. This will mean the project will not end up a “dead duck in the water”.
Confirmation that the funding has indeed been allocated will come following the release of the proposed Regional Land Transport Plan, due later this month.
Last month, the absence of any mention of Hill Street in Auckland Council’s proposed 10-year budget prompted fears the project would be deferred for another decade.
