New Zealand State Highway 44
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Regions:
- Taranaki
State Highway 44 (SH 44) is a street of the New Zealand Fernstraßennnetzes. It is 5.2 km one of the shortest highways of New Zealand and lies along its entire length in the city of New Plymouth. He has mostly only one lane, only about one percent two lanes.
History
The SH 44 was a response to an increase in truck traffic between the State Highway 3 and the Port Taranaki and the resulting road damage on the preferred route on the Breakwater Road, St. Aubyn Street and Molesworth Street. Initially introduced the operator of the New Zealand Highways, Transit New Zealand, against the inclusion of the new road in the highway network, as you would have liked to leave the maintenance of the road to the New Plymouth District Council and the State Highway 45 runs less than 200 m parallel. However, the SH45 has steeper inclines, uses one-way streets and has more traffic lights, so that the route is not suitable for heavy traffic. Therefore, the SH 44 was finally included in the road network.
Route (as of 2008 )
The highway begins at the point north-east of the center of New Plymouth, where Leach Street (one way west) and Courtenay Street meet (one way east) with the extending in a north-south direction Eliot Street. He sits on the Eliot Street to Molesworth Street, then along this road in a westerly direction away. The road changes its name to St Aubyn Street, then Breakwater Road. The road ends at the Port Taranaki, both harbor entrances are part of SH 44 The first driveway leads through the Bayly Road and Ocean View Parade, the second is the end of Breakwater Road.