• Wellington’s lousy summer is not expected to delay construction of the much-anticipated $850 million Transmission Gully motorway.

The 27 kilometre, four-lane motorway between the northern Wellington suburb of Tawa and McKays Crossing, north of Paekakariki, is scheduled to be completed by 2020.

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A screengrab from a Transmission Gully fly through video, showing the planned Cannon’s Creek bridge looking south towards Wellington.