Grange businesses knocked by new motorway

Grange Bakery owner Samrach Say.

The Grange was unusually quiet in the days after the new motorway opened to traffic.

The opening of the new Puhoi-Warkworth motorway has had a significant, if predictable, impact on businesses in The Grange on Auckland Road/Old SH1, if early indications are anything to go by.

The state of the parking lot said it all: while finding a car park near the strip of shops can often be a chore, three days after the motorway bypassing the town was opened to traffic on Monday, June 19,

The Grange was nearly empty.

Grange Bakery owner Samrach Say estimated...

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