Transmission - A Mission For Life

Michael from Trentham

Transmission Gully will finally be open for business on Thursday March 31.

First though of at least in part, in 1913.

Kapiti will benefit the most but so too will regular travellers and holiday makers especially during peak hours. And how many people have been caught up on a weekend afternoon or evening trying to get back to the Hutt Valley/Wellington/Porirua?

A coulpe of years ago I thought I would play smart and not leave the Levin area until after 8.30pm on a Sunday to avoid the usual traffic snarls. No such luck. Last time I was up that way and heading home on a Sunday evening we left near midnight and managed a clear run. But this is what one had to do in order to not face tiresome, time consuming and expensive motoring.

Then of course there is the fragility of Cennential Drive (Pukerua Bay-Paekak).

Shame that Transmission Gully will be like every other highway and motorway in NZ and only fit for a company such as Filton Hogan to hugely profit from because the road making processes in NZ equates to repairing and resurfacing at regular intervals.

Transmission Gully is 27km in length and took from Sept 2014 to March 2022 of construction and certification. It is said that a similar undertaking in China would have taken just 2 years and get this: the roading in China would last in tip top condition for years and years.

Roll-on the motorway extension to Levin to further make inroads to four-lane driving all the way from the outskirts of Wellington.

Kapiti is the fastest growing area in the Wellington region and one of the fastest in development in NZ and this will only be accelerated with the Transmission Gully motorway. Its lifestyle will change forever.

So that is one route out of Greater Wellington being attended to. The other is the road to the Wairarapa and one can only sigh in either relief or in agony that a vehicular tunnel through the Remutakas would create another speedy outlet/inlet and would have created a completely different lifestyle to that enjoyed or otherwise in the Wairarapa.