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Prebensen Drive Four Laning
Preferred Prebensen Drive Four Laning design.Planning Started: 2004
Construction Started: Not Started
Completed: Not Completed
Project planning commenced in 2004 (Hawke's Bay Regional Traffic Study)
The Napier City Council is planning to widen the most heavily trafficked section of Prebensen Drive (formerly Tamatea Drive).
Four lanes will be formed between the Hawke's Bay Expressway and Hyderabad Road to ease congestion on the arterial road. As part of the project, the Hyderabad Road/Prebensen Drive intersection will be upgraded, preferably using an overbridge to replace the existing railway level crossing.
The proposed changes will provide significant traffic benefits, improving access to the port, encouraging heavy vehicle traffic off Marine Parade and other Napier routes and freeing up the flow of traffic along Prebensen Drive, preferably using an overbridge to replace the existing railway level crossing.
In an associated roading project, Ford Road will be extended to the Severn Street/Prebensen Drive roundabout adjacent to the Mitre 10 Mega Store. Ford Road will then replace the Austin Street 'T' intersection as the main access to the Onekawa industrial area from Prebensen Drive.
The proposed changes will provide significant traffic benefits and improve access to the port, encouraging heavy vehicles away from other routes through the city (including Marine Parade) and freeing up the flow of traffic along Prebensen Drive, including solving the current bottleneck at Austin Street.
The Regional Land Transport Committee, convened by the Hawke's Bay Regional Council, rates this project as among Hawke's Bay's most significant roading proposals.
Subject to funding and the completion of the designation process, the Prebensen Drive four-laning and Ford Road extension project are scheduled to commence in 2011.
Prebensen Drive Four Laning Project Images
Preferred Prebensen Drive Four Lani...
