It looks like we may journey to the Cooks long before we can motor on the replacement Manawatu Gorge highway

Point of Order

A new Beehive press statement succinctly refers in the headline to “the Manawatū Gorge replacement highway”.   The statement proceeds to tell us the highway has been given a name as long as the highway itself.  It’s Te Ahu a Turanga: Manawatū Tararua Highway.

We imagine the signposts to accommodate that wording will chew into more than a few of the trees in the Government’s billion trees planting programme.  

Whatever it is officially called, or what motorists might prefer to call it, Transport Minister Michael Wood wants us to know the ground has been broken for Te Ahu a Turanga: Manawatū Tararua Highway – the new road that will replace the former SH3 route through the Manawatū Gorge.

This was among the latest items of news from the Beehive, which also advised us:

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