Te Ara ki Uta ki Tai
Te Ara ki Uta ki Tai (), also known as the Glen Innes to Tāmaki Drive shared path, is a shared pathway connecting the suburbs of Ōrākei and Glen Innes in Auckland, New Zealand. It runs through the Pourewa Valley and the Eastern Transport Corridor, and for most of its length is adjacent to the North Island Main Trunk railway line. History Proposed motorway A strategy study in 2002 stated a need for a new motorway to be built in the corridor (as had been planned decades before) for a variety of reasons, including the need to make suburban streets safer and less polluted. In March 2004, Auckland City Mayor John Banks proposed a motorway scheme through Hobson Bay. There was substantial community and political resistance to the scheme, largely due to the cost of the proposal (equivalent to four years of the entire country's transport funding budget) and the impact it would have on a number of established neighbourhoods, as well as areas like Tāmaki Drive, the Parnell Baths and several environmentally sensitive areas. Even after revised designs, the impacts were still high, and with costs rising (with a worst case estimate of NZ$3.9 billion), the corridor was fast