New Zealand State Highway 58

State Highway 58
Route information
Maintained by NZ 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 NZ 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] The interchange was completed in 2017.

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 CityManor Park0.0 SH 2 north (Western Hutt Road) – Upper Hutt, Masterton
Manor Park Road – Manor Park
SH 2 south (Western Hutt Road) – Lower Hutt, Wellington		SH 58 begins
Porirua CityJudgeford6.3Moonshine RoadReplacement roundabout due to open 2017.
Pauatahanui9.5Transmission Gully south – Porirua, WellingtonUnder construction, due to open 2020.
9.6Transmission Gully north – Paraparaumu, Palmerston North
10.0Paekakariki Hill Road – Pauatahanui
Whitby13.6Postgate Drive – Whitby Shops
Paremata15.0Paremata 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. Archived from the original on 9 April 2015. 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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