New Zealand State Highway 58

State Highway 58
Route information
Maintained by New Zealand Transport Agency
Length: 15.2 km (9.4 mi)
Major junctions
West end: SH 1 at Paremata
East end: SH 2 at Haywards
Highway system
← SH 57SH 60 →

State Highway 58 is a New Zealand State Highway in the Wellington Region linking the Hutt Valley to Porirua.

The two lane 15.3 km highway leaves State Highway 2 at Haywards and goes over the Haywards Hill via Judgeford to a future interchange with the proposed Transmission Gully Motorway at Pauatahanui. Then it skirts the southern side of the Pauatahanui Inlet of Porirua Harbour and the suburb of Whitby, to join State Highway 1 at Paremata near Porirua. Grays Road skirts the northern side of the Pauatahanui Inlet and joins State Highway 1 at Plimmerton and is used as a short cut to State Highway 1 if going north; but it is a local road not of highway standard, and has been criticised as treacherous and not suitable for heavy trucks.[1]

In June 2010 a road assessment programme found that the Haywards Hill road was amongst the worst in the Wellington region, scoring only 2 out a possible 5.[2] In November 2014 upgrades costing $30 million were announced, with $2.5 million of work to start immediately. [3]

Construction of a new $42 million elevated interchange at the intersection of SH2 and SH58 at Haywards will commence in 2015 and will take two to three years to complete; having been brought forward by the New Zealand Transport Agency. [4] The project includes a new "park and ride" car park at Manor Park Railway Station and a linking pedestrian overbridge to replace an existing underpass across SH2 to Manor Park.[5]

History

The road was first formed during the 1870s.[6] From the 1940s to the 1970s there were proposals for a railway line, the Haywards–Plimmerton Line, via this route.

Major junctions

Territorial authority Location km jct Destinations Notes
Lower Hutt City Manor Park 0.0 SH 2 north (Western Hutt Road) – Upper Hutt, Masterton
Manor Park Road – Manor Park
SH 2 north (Western Hutt Road) – Lower Hutt, Wellington 		SH 58 begins
Replacement grade-separated roundabout due to open 2017.
Porirua City Judgeford 6.3 Moonshine Road Replacement roundabout due to open 2017.
Pauatahanui 9.5 Transmission Gully south – Porirua, Wellington Under construction, due to open 2020.
9.6 Transmission Gully north – Paraparaumu, Palmerston North
10.0 Paekakariki Hill Road – Pauatahanui
Whitby 13.6 Postgate Drive – Whitby Shops
Paremata 15.0 Paremata Crescent – Papakowhai
15.1 SH 1 south – Porirua, Wellington
Paremata station park & ride
SH 1 north (Mana Esplanade) – Paraparaumu, Palmerston North 		SH 58 ends

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Truck rolls on treacherous Plimmerton road". Stuff/Fairfax. 3 May 2015.
  2. ↑ "Haywards Hill Road region's worst". Stuff.co.nz. 30 June 2010. Retrieved 21 April 2012.
  3. ↑ "Haywards Hill should be a major connection". Stuff (Fairfax). 21 November 2014.
  4. ↑ "Fast track for new $42m interchange". Stuff/Fairfax. 14 March 2015.
  5. ↑ "SH2/58 Haywards Interchange". NZTA. Retrieved 21 April 2012.
  6. ↑ W. B. Healy, "Pauatahanui Inlet - an environmental study", New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, 1980. ISSN 0077-9636
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