Hutt Valley Expressway

Hutt Valley Expressway
State Highway 2
Route information
Maintained by New Zealand Transport Agency
Length: 20 km (10 mi)
Major junctions
Northeast end: Silverstream
Ferguson Drive intersection
  Junction 962
State Highway 58
Exit 979
State Highway 1
Southwest end: Ngauranga
Ngauranga Interchange
Location
Primary
destinations:
Avalon, Lower Hutt City Centre, Petone
Highway system

New Zealand State Highways
Motorways and Expressways • List • Unused

The Hutt Valley Expressway is a 20 km (12 mi) section of State Highway 2, running from the end of the Wellington Urban Motorway at the Ngauranga, near Wellington, past Lower Hutt, to the seagull intersection at Fergusson Drive and River Road. The road has two names: Hutt Road from the Ngauranga Interchange to the Petone Overbridge, and Western Hutt Road from the Petone Overbridge to Fergusson Drive.

Contents

Design

The road is mainly two lanes each way, with a three-lane northbound section just south of the Belmont Hills intersection. The road is dual carriageway except for a small section between the Petone Overbridge and the Petone Railway Station.

Only three intersections are not at-grade, the others being major ones controlled by traffic lights and minor ones controlled by Give Way and Stop signs. The Dowse, Petone, and Nguaranga interchanges are grade-separated.

Improvements

In recent years, works have been started to improve safety along the road.

The section between the Petone and Normandale Overbridges is currently being improved by the Dowse to Petone project, which will eliminate three sets of traffic lights and replace them with a grade separated roundabout and an overbridge.

Several minor intersections have been improved to prevent traffic turning right into or out of the minor roads, and there are provisions to replace the Melling and Haywards intersections with grade-separated interchanges in the future.

Interchanges

All interchanges are at-grade unless otherwise specified.

Territorial authority Location Destinations Notes
Upper Hutt City Silverstream SH 2 north
(River Road)
Upper Hutt City Centre, Masterton
Hutt Valley Expressway ends
(Fergusson Drive)
Silverstream, Stokes Valley
Seagull intersection
Intersection lies on the border between the two cities
Hutt City
Manor Park (Manor Park Road)
Manor Park
SH 58
(Haywards Hill Road)
Pauatahanui, Porirua
(Hebden Crescent/Liverton Road)
(Hebden Crescent/Gurney Road) Northbound exit and entrance
Belmont Domain (Carter Street)
Belmont Domain
(Fairway Drive)
Avalon, Naenae, Hutt Hospital
(Major Drive)
Kelson
(Grounsell Crescent)
Belmont Hills
(Wairere Road/Pomare Road) Northbound exit and entrance
Melling (Tirohanga Road/Block Road)
Tirohanga, Normandale
(Melling Link/Harbour View Road)
Lower Hutt City Centre, Harbour View
(Dowse Drive)
Manguraki, Petone, Lower Hutt City Centre
Grade-separated roundabout interchange
(Korokoro Road)
Korokoro
To be removed mid 2009 on completion of new Korokoro overbridge
Petone Railway Station Southbound exit only
(Priests Ave)
Petone Railway Station
Opens 2009. Northbound exit and entrance
(Cornish Street)
Korokoro Industrial Area
Will become northbound exit only in 2009
(Hutt Road)
Petone, Eastbourne, Wainuiomata
Petone Interchange. Northbound exit and southbound entrance
Wellington City (Horokiwi Road)
Horokiwi
Northbound Only. Southbound Access closed in 2010.
BP Hutt Road Northbound only
Ngauranga SH 1 north
(Hutt Road)
Ngauranga, Porirua, Picton Ferry
Ngauranga Interchange. Southbound exit and northbound entrance.
SH 1 south
(Wellington Urban Motorway)
Wellington City Centre, Wellington International Airport
Hutt Valley Expressway ends

See also