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There have been plenty of drawings of Penlink over the years, but none of them drill down to street level or provide details about the bridge across the Weiti River.
If you are keen to see the detailed design for the currently planned two-lane road and bridge, you have a year to wait.
One thing that the design will eventually reveal is how Penlink connects with Whangaparaoa Road.
The general area is opposite Beverley Road, near Cedar Terrace, but beyond that there are a number of options – including how much impact it has on Cedar Reserve.
The project links Whangaparaoa Road with the Northern Motorway at Redvale and is currently funded with $411 million from the Labour-led Government’s NZ Upgrade Programme.
It is therefore now in the hands of Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency (NZTA). Its spokesperson Darryl Walker says Cedar Reserve is within the Penlink designation, but that does not mean all the reserve land will necessarily be required in the final design.
“All of the area of reserve within the designation will likely be used temporarily during construction as lay down and establishment area then reinstated, landscaped and planted in accordance with the detailed design,” Mr Walker says.
Hibiscus & Bays Local Board member and long time Penlink proponent, Janet Fitzgerald, says that the route doesn’t go up the valley of Cedar Reserve, which she says is primarily for stormwater.
She says one requirement is that the alignment of the road “must achieve the greatest possible separation distance between the road and the adjacent properties on Cedar Terrace”.
Detailed design work, which the public should be consulted on, is expected to start by the middle of next year with construction beginning towards the end of that year. It is hoped Penlink will be completed in late 2025.
