Cambridge Road, Bethlehem/Tauriko
Construction work at Cambridge Road, between Bethlehem and Tauriko is taking shape as work progresses on the Takitimu North Link project. This is a busy area of the project site with the new bridge at Cambridge Road opening to traffic in April 2024, and changes to the existing Cambridge / Moffat Road and Harrison Road intersections underway. These works make way for the expressway to be built underneath the new bridge, as well as resulting in a safer road layout in this busy area of Tauranga.
Cambridge Road – next steps for major works
The bridge tie-in works required a three-month local road closure with detours in place, enabled through partnership with Tauranga City Council. We appreciate people living in surrounding residential streets experienced increased traffic volumes on local roads during this time and thank our project neighbours and local people for their support, cooperation, and patience.
In the next phase of work from April to mid-2024, with the bridge in use, the new Cambridge Road East intersection will be built. A section of Cambridge Road East from Moffat Road to St Andrews Roundabout will be closed while the new intersection joining onto Moffat Road is constructed. Detours will be in place for the closed section of Cambridge Road East.
There will be temporary speed reductions in place while this work is undertaken. Please follow on-site traffic signage and instructions from our team.
Read about what’s happening in this info sheet:
Takitimu North Link Cambridge Road information sheet - Spring 2023 [PDF, 2.7 MB]
New road layout at Cambridge Road
Cambridge Road alignment map.
This aerial view shows the new Takitimu North Link expressway and surrounding roads layout in progress.
Cambridge Road Overbridge - fast facts
- Top-down construction
- 100m bridge one lane each way, and a shared path
- 24 piles, with the deepest 41 meters
- 400,000m3 earthworks
- Due for completion late 2023
Artist impressions of the completed Cambridge Road Overbridge
Artist concept of the overbridge at a closer range.
Progress pictures
The bridge at Cambridge Road was opened April 2024, work to complete local roads continues at the intersection of Moffat and Cambridge Road East.
Cambridge Road East - March 2024.
Cambridge Road Overbridge - March 2024.
Tie in works in progress at Cambridge Road Overbridge, looking towards Tauriko, with crews working at both ends of Cambridge and Moffat roads – picture taken February 2024.
Cambridge Road Overbridge looking towards Bethlehem with Mauao in the distance - November 2023.
Cambridge Road Overbridge looking west over Wairoa Valley and Awa - August 2023.
Overbridge in progress with beams, temporary Harrison Road and topsoil being kept for the project at the east side of Cambridge Road, picture taken March 2023.
Over four days in March 2023, 21 beams were placed for the Cambridge Road Overbridge, this involved some very impressive reversing by members of our crew! The alignment for the new four-lane road will pass underneath the beams seen in the photograph, which show the level of the new Cambridge Road alignment (approximately 5 metres lower than existing road), and the new expressway will then run a further 18 metres underneath, demonstrating the significant programme of earthworks at this section of the project.
Looking towards Cambridge Road from Wairoa Valley east, picture taken June 2022.
Above Cambridge / Moffat / Harrison roads, picture taken March 2022.
