The Eastern Transport Corridor in Auckland, New Zealand, is a strip of land and water occupied largely by housing, commerce, industry, roads, and a railway line but earmarked for major transport intensification to improve links from central Auckland to the north-eastern half of Manukau City (suburbs such as Pakuranga and Howick).
A strategy study in 2002 confirmed the need for an Eastern Transport Corridor, for a variety of reasons including the need to make suburban streets safer and less polluted.
In March 2004 Auckland City Mayor John Banks proposed a NZ$4b scheme with (inter alia) 13 motorway lanes through Hobson Bay, but a revised plan published on 25 August2004 reduced that number substantially, which Mayor Banks said he hoped would please the opponents. The proposed motorway was one of the principal points of contention in the 2004 local body elections and contributed to the defeat of John Banks.
The Auckland City Council transport and urban linkages committee decided on 10 December2004 to scrap the planned motorway in favour of improved public transport.
External links
Auckland City Council information page (http://www.aucklandcity.govt.nz/auckland/transport/eastern/)
Manukau City Council information page (http://www.manukau.govt.nz/envmanag/ecorridor.htm)
The EasternCorridor had the benefit of being the shortest and closest to the high population areas; however, it also had the most significant impacts to existing homes and planned development.
The Western Corridor had the fewest direct home impacts; however, due to its indirect path, it was the longest of the three corridors and the farthest from the populated areas.
Suggestions to modify the central corridor proposal by minimizing diagonal crossing to farm land and moving the path to more closely follow property lines and utility corridors were found to have merit.
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