To incorporate these elements into AMETI, the project will be completed in phases in the vicinity of Panmure, with construction expected to commence in 2012.

2010-2014

Detailed design for Phase One and Two (including community consultation)

Phase One 2012-2014

• New street link between Mt Wellington Highway to Fraser Road

Phase Two 2014-2016

• RTN dedicated bus lanes on Ellerslie-Panmure Highway and Lagoon Drive
• RTN bus-rail interchange on Ellerslie-Panmure Highway bridge
• Cycle/pedestrian way on Panmure Bridge
• Reconfiguration of the Panmure Roundabout

Phase Three 2016-2019

• New road for the Innovation Precinct Link in Glen Innes

Artist impressions of Panmure

Note: These are artists impressions only – the final design is subject to change.

Phase One: 2012-2014

Design for this phase will take place 2010-2012.

In Phase One of Panmure, a new street link will be created from Mt Wellington Highway to Fraser Road. This new street will remove around 25,000 vehicles (that are wanting to simply pass through) from the Panmure Roundabout each day.

The new road will extend along from William Harvey Place (where Big Save Furniture is currently), beside the railway line, under the Ellerslie Panmure Highway, and join back into a local road at Fraser Road.

In the short term, the new road will link through to William Harvey Place, however, in the longer-term, this will take a different route, passing near to Van Damme’s Lagoon and on towards Waipuna Road.

This new street development is an interim measure and comprises one lane in each direction. Capacity has been built into this project to widen this to two lanes in each direction at a later stage.

The new arterial route that will connect Mt Wellington Highway in the south to Merton Road in the north.

Phase Two: 2014-2016

Design for this phase will take place 2010-2014.

Once the new connection road between Mt Wellington Highway and Fraser Road is complete, taking traffic off the Ellerslie-Panmure Highway and Lagoon Drive, it will allow Rapid Transit Network (RTN) related capacity improvements to be made in the area. The Panmure RTN components form part of a region-wide high quality PT network connecting through to Pakuranga, Botany and eventually Manukau.

• On Lagoon Drive, one dedicated RTN bus and one traffic lane in either direction will be introduced (there are currently two general traffic lanes in either direction). Because traffic and buses will continue to travel across the Panmure Bridge, it is also expected that the “tidal flow” of traffic together with bus priority across the Panmure Bridge will be retained.
• On the Ellerslie-Panmure Highway, there will be one RTN dedicated bus lane connecting to a bus-rail RTN interchange above Panmure station, and two general traffic lanes in each direction (there are currently three general traffic lanes in each direction).
• The Panmure Bridge will have an extended structure. It is anticipated that between 2012 and 2015 a new cycle and pedestrian structure will be designed and built adjacent to the south side of the Panmure Bridge. On the Manukau side of the bridge, the new cycle/pedestrian bridge will be designed to tie in with the cycleway and footpath adjacent to the Tamaki River (the Rotary Walkway), as well as the existing footpath down the Pakuranga Highway. It will also link into improved cycle facilities that are planned in the area. On the Auckland city side of the Panmure Bridge, the new structure will be designed to tie in with the existing footpath flowing onto Lagoon Drive, as well as the cycleway and facilities around the Panmure lagoon.
  
  In the medium to long term, a bus and cycle route is proposed on Ti Rakau Drive. It is anticipated that the cycle/pedestrian bridge will become an important link for this future cycle route.
• The Panmure Roundabout will be reconfigured to take into account the new road from the Mt Wellington Highway towards Glen Innes, and the new configurations of Ellerslie-Panmure Highway and Lagoon Drive. The design of the roundabout is not yet confirmed. Consultation will occur over the best solution closer to construction and once traffic flows are known. RTN bus priority through the reconfigured roundabout will be introduced.

Looking west from Queens Road, with Jellicoe Road to the right. This area presently contains the Panmure Roundabout.

View from the edge of the Panmure Roundabout (with roundabout removed and a controlled intersection in place). This view looks north up Mountain Road towards Mt Wellington, with Jellicoe Road to the right in the foreground and the Ellerslie-Panmure Highway to the left.

Phase Three: 2016-2019

Design for this phase will take place 2010-2017.

During this final phase of the Panmure stage of AMETI, the new street link between the Mt Wellington Highway and Fraser Road is expected to be connected to Glen Innes via a new road - the Innovation Precinct Link.

The Innovation Precinct Link will be a new two-lane road built on a strip of empty land already owned by Auckland City Council and purpose designated. The strip runs beside The University of Auckland’s Tamaki Campus, and is clearly visible as grassed area shown below.

Overhead photograph (2009) of the area encompassing the “Innovation Precinct Link” Bottom left- Hannigan Drive; then Tainui Road which follows the boundary with the go kart track; this connects with Morrin Road, The Eastern Rail line runs diagonally from the lower left side to the top right corner. Pilkington Road runs parallel with the rail line but in the top left hand quarter.

2019 and beyond

Construction of Quarry Link Road (a new road linking the Stonefields residential development with Pilkington Road).

Visual of Quarry Link Road (running horizontally), with Tainui Road in the foreground, and Morrin Road curving away.

How many properties will be affected?

AMETI is a staged, integrated transport project, subject to reassessment and confirmation as it progresses. This means – it is not possible to know for certain at this stage how many properties will be affected overall. At this stage, however, the following is likely:

• Panmure Phase 1: affects around 37 (primarily non-residential) properties
• Panmure Phase 2: affects around 16 (primarily non-residential) properties
• Panmure Phase 3: affects around 8 (primarily non-residential) properties.

All owners have received communication from council.