18 Jul 2023

North Aucklanders disappointed new highway at risk of slips

From Checkpoint, 6:08 pm on 18 July 2023

Locals in the northern part of Auckland are disappointed parts of the Pūhoi to Warkworth highway is beginning to subside, just a month since it opened.

Cracks have appeared in concrete barriers and there is a slow moving landslide in a section near the Warkworth end.

A report to Waka Kotahi shows the area has had land instability for years, and the agency was told in April the landslide had been reactivated after the January floods. By late 2019, there'd already been 19 landslides during the construction project.

Our reporter Lucy Xia was spoke to people in Warkworth.