State Highway 22 (SH 22) is a New Zealand state highway just south of

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. It connects the town of

Pukekohe Pukekohe is a town in the Auckland Region of the North Island of New Zealand. Located at the southern edge of the Auckland Region, it is in South Auckland, between the southern shore of the Manukau Harbour and the mouth of the Waikato River. Th ...

to the

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Route

The route begins at Exit 461 on near Drury and travels in a general south-west direction along Karaka Road, and then south to Pukekohe. The highway officially terminates where SH 22 meets the northern intersection with Adams Drive. From there the road changes to Edinburgh Street and continues into Pukekohe town centre.

Major intersections

History

SH 22 used to cover a much longer route, via

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, all the way to meet with (which runs from

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to Raglan). This section was revoked circa 1990 although much of the original route still holds the name "Highway 22".

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of the southern

Te Uku Te Uku is a small, mainly farming, settlement on SH23 in the North Island of New Zealand, located from Hamilton and from Raglan. It has a 4-Square shop, church, coffee stall and art gallery, filling station, hall, school and Xtreme Zero W ...

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section, to what is now SH 23, was completed in 1937. In 1944 what was to become State Highway 22 was expected to become an arterial road linking Auckland and

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. That was long before the National Roads Board, gazetted it as State Highway 22 in July 1963, which designation was first shown on a one-inch map in 1971. A start was made on upgrading the road to the SH 23 junction near

in the early 1960s. 85% of the cost (£75,000 in 1961 – $3.3m at 2017 prices) was paid by the National Roads Board.CW Vennell & Susan Williams: Raglan County Hills and Sea 1876–1976 p. 179

References

External links

New Zealand Transport Agency
22 Transport in the Auckland Region {{NewZealand-road-stub

Route

Major intersections

History

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