SkyPath back on the table as NZTA reconsiders the Northern Pathway

NZTA are reconsidering their plan for the Northern Pathway across the Waitemata. There are significant technical issues and cost blowouts (well above the recent costing of $240 million and the original estimate of $100 million last year).

NZTA want to build a new bridge for the busway, walking and cycling. Whilst we support this approach in principle, we are very concerned by the delay this means for walking and cycling. As such a bridge would be a decade or more to complete, we have requested NZTA to get on with the SkyPath design as the elegant low-cost, light-weight, interim solution.

SkyPath is already consented and was approved as buildable at the August 2018 NZTA Board meeting.  Any concerns about loading capacity and movement of the clip-on's can be addressed by dynamic load-sharing to the main truss bridge.

Tragically, NZTA could have delivered SkyPath by now, instead we are back to square one with NZTA proactively involve us in their decision-making.  We had hoped that NZTA had learn from their previous apology to us for poor communication.