Auckland Northern Motorway

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Auckland Northern Motorway
Map
Route information
Maintained by NZ Transport Agency
Length58 km (36 mi)
Existed30 May 1959–present
Major junctions
North end SH 1 near Warkworth
Major intersections
South end SH 1 (Southern Motorway) at Auckland City Centre
Location
CountryNew Zealand
Primary
destinations		Puhoi, Orewa, Silverdale, Albany, Takapuna, Northcote, Auckland City
Highway system
Looking west at the Northern Motorway from Forrest Hill. The Sunset Road overbridge and the Upper Harbour Highway interchange northbound offramp can be seen in the background on the far right. The Northern Busway can be seen on the near side of the motorway.
The Northern Motorway skirting the edge of the Waitematā Harbour on the northern approach to the Auckland Harbour Bridge. Central Auckland can be seen across the harbour.

The Auckland Northern Motorway (known locally as the Northern Motorway, and historically as the Auckland–Warkworth Motorway) in the Auckland Region of New Zealand links Central Auckland and Warkworth in the former Rodney District via the Hibiscus Coast and North Shore. It is part of State Highway 1.

It is 58 kilometres (36 mi) in length, with 17 junctions. Until the end of the 1980s, it was largely associated with the Auckland Harbour Bridge as a connection between central Auckland and the North Shore, but since 1994 it has been extended to Warkworth to become the primary route between the Auckland urban area, the Hibiscus Coast satellite towns, the northern Rodney district, and Northland. Between the 1959 opening of the motorway and 1984, tolls were collected on the Auckland Harbour Bridge, and since 2009 tolls have been collected on the Northern Gateway Toll Road.

In 2019, 170,000 vehicles per day were crossing the Harbour Bridge section of the motorway.[1]

  1. ^ "The next harbour crossing: road and rail, or just rail". The New Zealand Herald. 9 March 2019. Retrieved 11 April 2019.