State Highway 58 (New Zealand)
{{short description|Road in New Zealand}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2015}}
{{Use New Zealand English|date=June 2015}}
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|terminus_a= {{jct|country=NZL|SH|2|name1=Western Hutt Road}} at Haywards
|junction= {{jct|country=NZL|SH|1|name1=Transmission Gully Motorway}} at Pāuatahanui
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|terminus_b= {{jct|country=NZL|SH|59}} at Paremata
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State Highway 58 (SH 58) is a New Zealand state highway in the Wellington Region linking the Hutt Valley to Porirua City.
Route
The two-lane highway covers {{convert|15.2|km}} and connects State Highway 2 from a junction at Haywards north of Lower Hutt to State Highway 59 at Paremata, north of the Porirua City Centre. The road traverses the steep Haywards Hill on the western side of the Hutt Valley, continues through Judgeford to an interchange with the Transmission Gully Motorway (State Highway 1) at Pāuatahanui, and skirts the southern side of the Pauatahanui Inlet of Porirua Harbour and the suburb of Whitby.
History
The road was first formed during the 1870s.W. B. Healy, "Pauatahanui Inlet – an environmental study", New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, 1980. ISSN 0077-9636 From the 1940s to the 1970s there were proposals for a railway line, the Haywards–Plimmerton Line, via this route.
In June 2010 a road assessment programme found that the Haywards Hill road was amongst the worst in the Wellington region, scoring only 2 out a possible 5.{{Cite news |title=Haywards Hill Road region's worst |last=McLennan |first=Rosemary |newspaper=Upper Hutt Leader |date=30 June 2010 |access-date=21 April 2021 |url= http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/local-papers/upper-hutt-leader/3866079/Haywards-Hill-Road-regions-worst }}
In November 2014 upgrades costing $30 million were announced, with $2.5 million of work starting immediately.{{Cite news |title=Haywards Hill should be a 'major connection' |last=Chipp |first=Jim |newspaper=Kapiti Observer |date=21 November 2014 |access-date=21 April 2021 |url= https://www.stuff.co.nz/motoring/news/63405792/haywards-hill-should-be-a-major-connection }}
Construction of an elevated interchange at the intersection of SH2 and SH58 at Haywards began in 2015 and was completed in 2017 for a cost of $42 million.{{cite news|url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/67361209/Fast-track-for-new-42m-interchange |title=Fast track for new $42m interchange |first=Michael|last=Forbes|newspaper=The Dominion Post |date=14 March 2015}} The project included a new park and ride car park at the adjacent Manor Park Railway Station and a pedestrian footbridge across SH2 to replace an existing underpass.{{cite web|url= http://www.nzta.govt.nz/network/projects/project.html?ID=132/|title= SH2/58 Haywards Interchange|publisher= NZTA|accessdate= 21 April 2012|url-status= dead|archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20150409154450/http://www.nzta.govt.nz/network/projects/project.html?ID=132%2F|archivedate= 9 April 2015|df= dmy-all}} Further safety improvements are under construction and estimated to be complete by 2023. These include building median and road-side safety barriers, two new roundabouts at the intersections of Flightys Road and Moonshine Road identified as having high crash statistics, and widening parts of the road to four lanes.{{Cite web |title=Safety upgrades for SH58, Wellington's most dangerous road |last=Fallon |first=Virginia |work=Stuff |date=29 January 2020 |access-date=21 April 2021 |url= https://www.stuff.co.nz/motoring/119120551/safety-upgrades-for-sh58-wellingtons-most-dangerous-road }}
Major junctions
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|road={{jct|country=NZL|SH|2|dir1=north|name1=Western Hutt Road}} – Upper Hutt, Masterton
Manor Park Road – Manor Park
{{jct|country=NZL|SH|2|dir1=south|name1=Western Hutt Road}} – Lower Hutt, Wellington
|notes=SH 58 begins
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{{Jctint
|county_special=Porirua City
|cspan=5
|location_special=Pāuatahanui
|lspan=2
|km=9.6
|road={{jct|country=NZL|SH|1|dir1=south|name1=Transmission Gully Motorway}} – Wellington
{{jct|country=NZL|SH|1|dir1=north|name1=Transmission Gully Motorway}} – Palmerston North
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{{Jctint
|type=
|km=10.0
|road=Paekākāriki Hill Road – Pāuatahanui
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}}
{{Jctint
|location_special=Whitby
|lspan=
|type=
|km=13.6
|road=Postgate Drive – Whitby Shops
|notes=
}}
{{Jctint
|location_special=Paremata
|lspan=2
|type=
|km=15.1
|road=Paremata Crescent – Papakowhai
|notes=
}}
{{Jctint
|type=
|km=15.2
|road={{jct|country=NZL|SH|59|dir1=south}} – Porirua, Wellington
{{jct|country=NZL|extra=rail}}Paremata railway station park & ride
{{jct|country=NZL|SH|59|dir1=north|name1=Mana Esplanade}} – Plimmerton, Paekākāriki, {{jct|country=NZL|SH|1}} north at Mackays Crossing
|notes=SH 58 ends
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See also
References
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External links
- [http://www.nzta.govt.nz New Zealand Transport Agency]
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