{"id":3919,"date":"2023-03-31T03:33:04","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T14:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=3919"},"modified":"2023-03-31T03:33:04","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T14:33:04","slug":"transmission-gully-marks-one-year-of-being-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=3919","title":{"rendered":"Transmission Gully marks one year of being open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than eight million journeys have been taken on Transmission Gully in the year it has now been open.<\/p>\n<p>As well as the journeys, Waka Kotahi said 8760 hours of continuous monitoring has been done by the Transport Operations Centre.<\/p>\n<p>Several items have also been lost, including a car bonnet, a Maserati personalised number plate and a wheelie bin.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-kilometre route is about 10 minutes quicker than the old highway, now redesignated State Highway 59.<\/p>\n<p>It had been a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/464297\/timeline-transmission-gully-s-103-year-history\">long time coming<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; the idea for Transmission Gully first appeared in the newspaper,\u00a0<i>The Evening Post<\/i>, in the year 1919.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 100 years later, John Key turned the first sod in 2014. The then-prime minister told the media: &#8220;It&#8217;s been a long time coming.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Another eight years on, delayed by storms, the Kaik\u014dura earthquake, Covid-19, and a huge underestimation of the earthworks required, it\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/464393\/transmission-gully-opens-it-s-a-lovely-bit-of-road\">finally opened at the end of March 2022<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than eight million journeys have been taken on Transmission Gully in the year it has now been open. As well as the journeys, Waka Kotahi said 8760 hours of continuous monitoring has been done by the Transport Operations Centre. Several items have also been lost, including a car bonnet, a Maserati personalised number plate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3921,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3919\/revisions\/3921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}