The NZTA has recently announced a $2million fund to Auckland Transport to investigate and redesign the intersection.
The Auckland Council and New Zealand Transport Agency are responsible for the State Highway 1 intersection with Hill Street, other connecting roads, and Resource Management Act planning.
The NZTA is a requiring authority under the Resource Management Act 1991 with the responsibility of managing the state highway network. Part of that responsibility is controlling what accesses the limited access roads known as state highways and advocating to ensure that planning decisions (such as zoning, district plans, and resource consents) by other authorities don't affect roads under their designations.
The NZTA throughout the country have a policy to reduce the number of accessways to state highways where possible. Their focus is the reduction of interference of local traffic with state highway through traffic. So far, their announcements and actions have reinforced this position. Please click here to download an NZTA summary of work to date.