Andrew Dickens: The new Wellington traffic plan is a monster

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Nov 17, 2025 · 2m · transcript

So the latest plan to fix central Wellington traffic has been released for consultation, and it’s a monster.

There’s a couple of tunnels. A new one at the Terrace end of the motorway and another new tunnel through Mount Victoria. Land and houses will be taken out of the town belt at Mount Victoria and parkland at the Terrace

There will be a major redesign of the Basin Reserve roundabout and a bridge near the airport.

And the price tag?

3 billion dollars. Ironically the same sort of cost for two ports and two ferries to cross Cook Strait, that was thought to be wildly expensive at the time.

So…