Safety is our priority and one of the reasons we are building Te Ara Tupua for the community. It will be a new safe and attractive cycling and walking route between Lower Hutt and Wellington, and improve resilience to SH2 and the rail corridor by securing critical transport links between these two cities.
We know how important the existing cycle route on SH2 is to the cycling community, and as part of our safety plan for Te Ara Tupua, our engineers reviewed the impacts of heavy vehicles whose drivers will be transporting machinery and materials to our new yard. The yard is accessed by an entry point off SH2, which crosses the path of cyclists riding south on the shoulder into Wellington. Our project means a greater number of trucks will be the using the entrance from SH2 as we take delivery of materials.
The result is the cycle diversion. The diversion is in place for the next three years as we build Te Ara Tupua, and is being monitored closely. We have taken onboard feedback from regular users since the diversion was put in place, and made changes to make it easier to ride through. We’re also training our drivers to take extra care as they enter our site.
Please travel slowly through this area and give way to vehicles accessing the yard when crossing the access road.
Below is a map we’ve created to help navigate the diversion.
