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State Highway Resilience Programme — Budget 2026
Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency · National / Multi-region
Budget 2026 committed $400M to improve resilience on six chronically vulnerable state highway corridors: SH2 (Waioweka Gorge), SH3 (Awakino Gorge), SH25 (Coromandel Peninsula), SH60 (Takaka Hill), SH6 (Cromwell–Kingston and Haast–Hawea), and SH94 (Milford–Te Anau). All are prone to slips, flooding, and closures that isolate communities and disrupt freight.
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94/100 · Very likely to proceed
Completion Probability — likelihood this proceeds on roughly its stated timeline.
Funding statusweight 30%
Delivery stageweight 25%
Election / policy riskweight 20%
Govt priority alignmentweight 12%
Project scaleweight 8%
Delivery agencyweight 5%
Key facts
- Region
- National / Multi-region
- Sector
- Transport
- Status
- Under Construction
- Estimated value
- $400m
- Indicative completion
- 2030
- Funding status
- Fully Funded
- Lead organisation
- Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency
- Election risk
- Low
Election risk assessment
Bipartisan support for state highway resilience. $400M fully committed in Budget 2026 across six vulnerable corridors.
Government priority alignment
HIGH — Directly delivers the GPS maintenance-and-resilience strategic priority.
Chronology
- 2022Waioweka Gorge, Awakino Gorge, and Coromandel routes repeatedly closed by weather — resilience investment identified as urgent national priority
- 2025Waka Kotahi business cases developed for resilience improvements on six key vulnerable corridors
- 2026Budget 2026 allocates $400M across SH2, SH3, SH25, SH60, SH6, and SH94. Works begin
- 2030Target for major resilience works complete across all six corridors