The Rodney District Council says it hopes a road link north of Auckland will be approved, now that construction costs have been reduced by tens of millions of dollars.
The $200 million road, between the Northern Motorway and the Whangaparaoa Peninsula, has stalled following its exclusion as a high-priority project under the Government's National Land Transport Plan.
The council's director of infrastructure, Murray Noone, says there has been a review of construction costs and substantial savings have been made.
Mr Noone says a council delegation has presented a revised figure of about $150 million to the Transport Agency, and the project is now ready to proceed.
