14 Dec 2013

Second section of Waikato Expressway opens

3:33 pm on 14 December 2013

A second section of the Waikato Expressway - one of the Government's major roading projects - has been opened.

The Ngaruawahia section has cost $200 million and makes up 12.3 kilometres of the 102 kilometre expressway, from the top of the Bombay Hills to south of Cambridge.

The whole road is expected to cost $2.1 billion and be finished in 2019.

The Te Rapa section was completed in 2012 with the Cambridge and Rangiriri sections under construction.