Point Chevalier to Westmere improvements (including Meola Road)
We're improving safety and accessibility for people walking, riding and using buses between Point Chevalier town centre and the Westmere shops.
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About the project
We’re working to make Point Chevalier Road, Meola Road, and Garnet Road safer and more accessible. The project is under construction and will be completed in mid-2025.
The project will:
- add more pedestrian crossings
- improve cycling safety
- improve existing bus stops and add new shelters
- add more trees and landscaping
- redesign streets to encourage slower vehicle speeds
- add seating and rubbish bins
- provide a great environment for outdoor dining
- improve storm water and drainage
- rebuild Meola Road's foundations
- move Meola Road powerlines underground.
Project updates
August 2024
Construction update August 2024 (PDF, 1.19MB)
July 2024
Construction update July 2024 (PDF, 787KB)
June 2024
Project information and benefits
For detailed information about each location, including artist’s renders of what the completed improvements will look like, download these resources.
Project staging overview
Stage 1 of Meola Road and Point Chevalier Road (October 2023 to April 2024) is complete.
Meola Road
- May 2024 to December 2024: Stage 2 paving, landscaping and road repairs from Huia Road to Walford Road
- August 2024 to November 2024: Stage 3 roundabout construction
- November 2024 to February 2025: Stage 4 finishing works.
Point Chevalier Road
- March 2024 to August 2024: Stage 2 stormwater and roadworks from Smale Street to Wakatipu Street
- May 2024 to September 2024: Stage 3 stormwater and surface works
- August 2024 to November 2024: Stage 4 stormwater works on the southern part of Point Chevalier Road
- September 2024 to January 2025: Stage 5 Meola Road roundabout and surface works
- December 2024 to March 2025: Stage 6 upgrades at the Great North Road intersection
- February 2025 to May 2025: Stage 7 finishing works on the southern part of Point Chevalier Road.
Garnet Road
- May 2024 to August 2024: Stage 1 drainage works
- July 2024 to February 2025: Stage 2 town centre and intersection upgrades
- December 2024 to February 2025: Stage 3 Garnet Road to Meola Road roundabout
- February 2025 to April 2025: Stage 4 finishing works.
Meola Road
From Monday 19 August, we will begin road reconstruction on Meola Road, from the Point Chevalier roundabout to Kiwi Road.
This section will be closed for up to 4 months, with traffic management in place. Please follow the posted detour routes.
This work is part of the ongoing improvements on Point Chevalier Road and Meola Road planned throughout 2024. We will update you regularly with each change.
There are stop-go closures in place on Monday to Saturday between 7am and 7pm. All other times, the road will be open except the area between Walford and Huia Road. On road parking is not available.
Access to driveways for local residents will be maintained as best as possible. If residents have access needs please contact us.
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Point Chevalier Road
There are multiple worksites between Meola Road and Tui Street. Northbound traffic (heading towards the beach) will need to follow the detours in place.
Garnet Road
Works began on Garnet Road on Monday 6 May 2024. Initial work just south of the roundabout to the intersection of Westmere Crescent has now been completed.
Currently, work is in progress at Faulder and Oban Avenues and in the shopping area on Garnet Road. This includes:
- drainage works
- building raised pedestrian crossings
- improving footpaths.
Traffic management is in place.
Stay up to date
To sign up for a monthly update, email: projects@at.govt.nz. Please include "PTC2W sign up" in the subject line of your email.
Stormwater network
We're delivering the stormwater network installation on Point Chevalier Road for Healthy Waters, saving money and time by sharing contractors, equipment and utilising the same traffic management plan and only digging up the road once.
The new stormwater network planned for Point Chevalier is part of a larger project in Auckland to separate combined networks, where stormwater discharges into the wastewater network. Separating the stormwater from the combined network reduces overflows in wet weather.
The stormwater infrastructure for Point Chevalier Road will include the installation of around 900 metres of pipe and associated stormwater manholes.
Timeline
- 2016 – community consultation on cycle routes between Point Chevalier and the city fringe
- 2017 – community consultation on a concept design for a cycleway between Point Chevalier and Westmere
- 2017 to 2018 – reviewed design based on community feedback
- 2019 – community consultation on a revised design
- 2020 to 2021 – project delay due to 2020 Covid-19 emergency budget
- early 2022 – re-engaged with the community
- late 2022 – political re-engagement
- late 2023 – construction begins
- mid-2025 – construction complete.