The Auckland urban route network consists of strategic and primary arterial roads across the Auckland Region of New Zealand. Urban routes are signposted with white shields with black numbers and borders. To avoid conflict with state highway numbering, there are no urban routes numbered 1, 2, 16, 18, 20, or 22.
Urban route shields are commonly found on signage at motorway interchanges and major urban intersections. The shields are accompanied by supplementary plates with arrows to direct road users along the route. Sometimes more than one urban route shield will be included on a signpost. Freestanding urban route shields are also used between intersections as reassurance that the driver is still following the route.
Urban routes This is a list of current posted urban routes in Auckland.
Route no. Roads Starts at Finishes at Suburbs served Mt Wellington Highway, Atkinson Avenue, Great South Road Mt Wellington Hwy / Sylvia Park Road and at Drury interchange Mount Wellington, Ōtāhuhu, Papatoetoe, Manukau, Manurewa, Papakura, Drury Upper Queen Street, Ian McKinnon Drive, Dominion Road Karangahape Road at Dominion Road interchange Auckland CBD, Eden Terrace, Mount Eden, Mount Roskill Great South Road, Ellerslie Panmure Highway, Lagoon Drive, Pakuranga Road, Ridge Road, Picton Street, Cook Street, Minerva Terrace, Cook Street, Whitford Road, Chapel Road, Ti Rakau Drive South Eastern Highway Ti Rakau Drive / Harris Road Penrose, Ellerslie, Panmure, Pakuranga, Howick, Botany Fanshawe Street, Sturdee Street, Lower Hobson Street, Quay Street, Tamaki Drive, Ngapipi Road, Kepa Road, Kohimarama Road, St Heliers Bay Road, Apirana Avenue, Pilkington Road, Jellicoe Road, Morrin Road, Te Horeta Road, Mt Wellington Highway, Sylvia Park Road, Great South Road / Beaumont Street Great South Road / South Eastern Highway Auckland CBD, Ōrākei, Meadowbank, Glen Innes, Panmure, Mount Wellington, Penrose Tamaki Drive, St Heliers Bay Road Ngapipi Road St Heliers Bay Road / Apirana Ave Mission Bay, St Heliers Ti Rakau Drive, Harris Road, Springs Road, East Tamaki Road Pakuranga Road Great South Road Pakuranga, East Tāmaki St Lukes Road, Balmoral Road, Green Lane West, Green Lane East, Remuera Road, St Johns Road at St Lukes interchange Kohimarama Road / St Heliers Bay Road St Lukes, Greenlane, Remuera, Meadowbank Carrington Road, Mt Albert Road, Mt Smart Road, Mays Road, Church Street, South Eastern Highway, Pakuranga Highway Great North Road / Pt Chevalier Road Pakuranga Road Point Chevalier, Mount Albert, Royal Oak, Penrose, Sylvia Park, Pakuranga A Waipuna Road Mt Wellington Highway / Penrose Road South Eastern Highway / Pakuranga Highway A (Pakuanga Motorway) Mount Wellington B Neilson Street Church Street at Neilson Street interchange Onehunga Great North Road, Blockhouse Bay Road Carrington Road Kinross Street / Donovan Street Point Chevalier, Avondale, Blockhouse Bay Khyber Pass Road, Crowhurst Street, Gillies Avenue & Owens Road (southbound), Alpers Avenue (northbound), Manukau Road, Pah Road, Queenstown Road Symonds Street / Newton Road at Queenstown Road interchange Newmarket, Epsom, Royal Oak Te Atatu Road, Edmonton Road, Alderman Drive, Henderson Valley Road, Forest Hill Road, West Coast Road at Te Atatu Road interchange Scenic Drive Te Atatū, Henderson, Waiatarua Mangere Road, Massey Road, Kirkbride Road, McKenzie Road, Coronation Road Great South Road at Coronation Road interchange Māngere East, Māngere Hillsborough Road, White Swan Road, Donovan Street, Kinross Street, Godley Road Mt Albert Road Titirangi Road Three Kings, Hillsborough, Lynfield, Blockhouse Bay, Titirangi Roscommon Road, Mahia Road at Cavendish Dr interchange / Cavendish Drive Great South Road Wiri, Clendon Park,Manurewa Lincoln Road, Great North Road, Rata Street, Ash Street, Great North Road at Lincoln Road interchange Blockhouse Bay Road Henderson, New Lynn, Avondale A Edmonton Road, Alderman Drive, Sel Peacock Drive Great North Road Lincoln Road Henderson East Coast Road, Forrest Hill Road, Tristram Avenue East Coast Road / Greville Road Wairau Road Pinehill, Sunnynook, Forrest Hill, Wairau Valley Fred Taylor Drive, Don Buck Road, Triangle Road at Brigham Creek Roundabout Lincoln Road Westgate, Massey, Henderson Access Road, Waitakere Road, Scenic Drive, Titirangi Road in Kumeū Great North Road / Rata Street Great North Road Kumeū, Taupaki, Waitākere, Titirangi, New Lynn East Coast Road, Greville Road Glenvar Road at Greville Road interchange / Albany Expressway Northcross, Pinehill Albany Highway, Glenfield Road, Wairau Road, Taharoto Road, Fred Thomas Drive, Esmonde Road, Lake Road, Albert Road, Victoria Road at Albany Highway interchange / Albany Highway Calliope Road Glenfield, Wairau Valley, Takapuna, Hauraki, Belmont, Devonport Glenfield Road, Birkenhead Avenue, Onewa Road Wairau Road at Onewa Road interchange Glenfield, Birkenhead, Northcote Coatesville-Riverhead Highway Dairy Flat Highway near Brigham Creek Coatesville, Riverhead Oteha Valley Road, Albany Highway East Coast Road at Albany Highway interchange / Albany Highway Albany, Rosedale Botany Road, Te Irirangi Drive, Cavendish Drive Pakuranga Road / Ridge Road at Cavendish Drive interchange / Roscommon Road Howick, Botany, Clover Park, Manukau Albany Expressway, Dairy Flat Highway Greville Road at Silverdale interchange / Hibiscus Coast Highway Albany, Dairy Flat, Silverdale Fred Taylor Drive, Hobsonville Road Don Buck Road Squadron Drive Westgate, Hobsonville Great North Road, Clark Street, Wolverton Street, Tiverton Road, New Windsor Road, Maioro Street Great North Road / Rata Street / Titirangi Road at Maioro Street interchange New Lynn, Avondale, New Windsor
Outside Auckland The same shield is occasionally employed elsewhere for "Regional Route" roads. These include the route UR1 in New Plymouth, the former route K in Tauranga (now SH29), and revoked state highways like the Inland Kaikoura Road (Route 70), Inland Scenic Route 72, and Route 67, the northernmost extent of SH67 on the West Coast.
The exception to this is Hamilton which has its own urban route network, but mostly only for main collector roads.
See also List of motorways and expressways in New Zealand
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