Auckland-Manukau Eastern Transport Initiative
(AMETI)
Introduction | Decisions
still to be made |
Project history
Project history
The current Auckland-Manukau Eastern Transport Initiative is a major
rescoping of an earlier initiative known as the Eastern Transit Corridor, which
was a corridor to link Auckland's CBD with Manukau City's CBD.
| 1930s |
Idea for an eastern outlet emerges. |
| 1948 |
There was talk of a motorway to cater for Auckland's future growth. |
| 1955 |
A 'South Eastern Motorway' proposed on a Master Transportation Plan
'from the central business area to the eastern areas, to the Mt
Wellington Highway and the existing Southern Motorway at Mt Wellington,
via Tamaki. |
| 1960s |
The Eastern Corridor was part of the regional highway plan (1965
Report on a Comprehensive Transportation Plan for the Auckland Regional
Authority). Land to be used as a motorway was designated. This was
changed to a limited access (arterial) road in 1967. |
| 1974 |
The Eastern Corridor was first incorporated into the Auckland
Regional Planning Scheme. The Auckland Regional Authority revisited the
idea for a four lane arterial road in 1975. Development studies were
undertaken during the 1970s. |
| 1993 |
Auckland City Council designated the corridor route 'Proposed
Limited Access Road - Eastern Highway'. The Council modified the
Proposed District Plan designation after 1997. The designation was
effective until 2004, extended in August 2004 by the Council's Transport
Committee for ten years to 11/8/2014. |
| 2001 |
Auckland City approved the undertaking of a study of the Eastern
Transport Corridor (which, in turn, analysed an earlier 1997/98 study).
The findings were presented to the Transport Committee in February 2002.
The Committee resolved to undertake a strategy study to identify a
shortlist of corridor development options, including targeted
consultation. Auckland City, Manukau City Councils
and Transit New Zealand agreed to work jointly and co-operatively. |
| March 2004 |
Opus Consultants recommended the option report be received and
confirmed that the Hobson Bay, Purewa Creek, Glen Innes/Panmure, State Highway 1
and Tamaki River corridors would be the preferred route between Auckland's CBD
and the Tamaki River. Local body elections in October 2004 resulted in a
reconsideration of the project by Auckland City, Manukau City Councils and
Transit New Zealand, with more emphasis on passenger transport. |
| June 2005 |
A new scope of works and Memorandum of Understanding was signed, and
a consensus on the way forward to complete the project was agreed upon.
Auckland City also resolved there would be no highway component to the
project north of Glen Innes. The primary focus was on passenger transport and travel demand
management, with improved roads to carry the passenger transport. |
