New Zealand State Highway 74

State Highway 74
Christchurch Ring Road
Route information
Maintained by New Zealand Transport Agency
Length:	26.3 km (16.3 mi)
Major junctions
North end:	Johns Road/Main North Road at Belfast
Southeast end:	Gladstone Quay at Lyttelton
Location
Major cities:	Christchurch
Highway system
New Zealand State Highways Motorways and Expressways • List • Unused ← SH 73 SH 75 →

State Highway 74 is a State Highway in New Zealand servicing the eastern suburbs of Christchurch, in addition to connecting the city to its port town of Lyttelton. It is mostly two-lane, but is mostly composed of limited-access expressways, with part of the highway as the Christchurch-Lyttelton Motorway

Route

This is the current route route of SH 74 ^[1]

The highway begins in Belfast, continuing as Main North Road from State Highway 1. proceeds in a southerly direction through the suburbs of Northwood and Redwood.

At Northcote, the highway turns left onto Queen Elizabeth II (QEII) Drive and begins its concurrency with the Christchurch Ring Road. As a two lane expressway, QEII Drive skirts through the northern suburbs of Christchurch, with major intersections at Innes Road and Marshland Road. After the Burwood Road traffic lights, the road changes name to Travis Road, loses expressway status, and runs in a easterly direction to the Anzac Drive/Frosts Road roundabout, where the highway turns right.

Now known as Anzac Drive, the road returns to expressway status and runs through the suburbs of Aranui and Bexley until reaching the Breezes Road/Bridge Street Roundabout. After the roundabout, the road changes name to Dyers Road. At Palinurus Road, the concurrency with the Ring Road ends, but Dyers Road keeps going in a southerly direction until the Ferry Road roundabout.

After the roundabout, the highway changes name to Tunnel Road and turns into a motorway, and passes through two interchanges before passing through the Lyttelton road tunnel. (For more information on this section go to Christchurch-Lyttelton Motorway)

In Lyttelton, the road changes name to Norwich Quay and acts as the main thoroughfare through the town and its associated port before terminating at the port gates as Gladstone Quay.

Route Changes

The route of SH 74 has been rearranged quite frequently for a State Highway, initially gazetted in 1964 upon the opening of the Lyttelton Road Tunnel, it only consisted of the motorway and the short section through Lyttelton.

When State Highway 1 through Christchurch was rerouted to bypass the city in the early 1990s, State Highway's 73 and 74 were extended to cover much of the original route, with SH 74 initially continuing through at QEII Drive/Northcote Road to travel via Cranford and Sherborne Streets. In Christchurch CBD, the route turned left onto Bealey Avenue and then onto the parallel one-way roads Madras and Barbadoes Street. The road then turned left onto Moorhouse Avenue and then right onto Waltham Road before turning left again onto Brougham Street. The road then proceeded in a south-easterly direction until the Port Hills Road interchange with Tunnel Road.^[2] In 2004, the route was realigned to its current route, with much of the previous route either revoked or taken over by SH 73.

With the recent designation of the Christchurch northern corridor as a road of national significance,^[3] there are plans underway to create the expressway Northern Arterial Road, which will bypass the northern suburbs of Redwood and Belfast as well as turning both the QEII Drive and Travis Road sections of SH 74 into dual carriageways.^[4]

Major intersections

For Tunnel Road's major intersection, refer to Christchurch-Lyttelton Motorway

State Highway 74
Northbound exits	Distance to Belfast (km)	Distance to Lyttelton (km)	Southbound exits
End continues as Main North Road to Kaiapoi, Picton	0	26.3	Start as Main North Road from
Hornby, Timaru Johns Road			Hornby, Timaru Johns Road
Northwood, Marshland Northwood Boulevard Radcliffe Road	1.4	24.9	Marshland, Northwood Radcliffe Road Northwood Boulevard
Styx Mill Road	2.2	24.1	Styx Mill Road
MAIN NORTH LINE	2.4	23.9	MAIN NORTH LINE
Farquhars Road	2.6	23.7	Farquhars Road
Marshland, Burwood Prestons Road	2.9	23.4	Marshland, Burwood Prestons Road
Daniels Road	3.4	22.9	Daniels Road
Bishopdale, Papanui Main North Road Northcote Road	4.1	22.2	Bishopdale, Papanui Main North Road Northcote Road
Name change to Main North Road End concurrency with Christchurch Ring Road			Name change to QEII Drive Start concurrency with Christchurch Ring Road
Grimseys Road	5.0	21.3	Grimseys Road
Mairehau Philpotts Road	5.8	20.5	Mairehau Philpotts Road
Mairehau, Fendalton Innes Road	7.3	19	Mairehau, Fendalton Innes Road
Marshland, Shirley Marshland Road	7.9	18.4	Shirley, Marshland Marshland Road
Burwood, Parklands Burwood Road	9.8	16.5	Parklands, Burwood Burwood Road
Name change to QEII Drive			Name change to Travis Road
Burwood, Parklands Frosts Road Travis Road	11.3	15	Parklands, Burwood Travis Road Frosts Road
Name change to Travis Road			Name change to Anzac Drive
Shirley, New Brighton New Brighton Road	12.1	14.2	New Brighton, Shirley New Brighton Road
AVON RIVER	12.2	14.1	AVON RIVER
Wainoni Wainoni Road	12.8	13.5	Wainoni Wainoni Road
Aranui, New Brighton Pages Road	14.0	12.3	New Brighton, Aranui Pages Road
Aranui, South New Brighton Breezes Road Bridge Street	15.6	10.7	South New Brighton, Aranui Bridge Street Breezes Road
Name change to Anzac Drive			Name change to Dyers Road
Bromley Maces Road	18.3	8.2	Bromley Maces Road
Linwood, Ferrymead Linwood Avenue	18.8	7.7	Ferrymead, Linwood Linwood Avenue
Woolston Palinurus Road	19.3	7.2	Woolston Palinurus Road
Start concurrency with Christchurch Ring Road			End concurrency with Christchurch Ring Road
Name change to Dyers Road	19.6	6.8	Name change to Tunnel Road
TUNNEL ROAD See Christchurch-Lyttelton Motorway for route information	19.6	6.8	TUNNEL ROAD See Christchurch-Lyttelton Motorway for route information
Name change to Tunnel Road	25.7	0.7	Name change to Norwich Quay
Lyttelton, Sumner Oxford Street	26.15	0.25	Lyttelton, Sumner Oxford Street
Name change to Norwich Quay	26.23	0.17	Name change to Gladstone Quay
End Continues as Gladstone Quay.

Spur Sections

State Highway 74A Christchurch Ring Road
Location:	Bromley–Woolston
Length:	2.1 km (1.3 mi)

State Highway 74A is a minor Christchurch arterial road connecting the southeastern industrial suburbs of Bromley and Woolston. It is just over 2 kilometres long and consists of three roads - Garlands Road, Palinurus Road and Rutherford Street. It runs concurrent with the Christchurch Ring Road for its entire length.^[5]

Major Intersections

State Highway 74A
Northbound intersections	Distance to Opawa Road (km)	Distance to Dyers Road (km)	Southbound intersections
End as Palinurus Road	0	2.1	Start as Palinurus Road
Bromley, Lyttelton Dyers Road			Lyttelton, Bromley Dyers Road
Christchurch CBD, Sumner Ferry Road	0.5	1.6	Sumner, Christchurch CBD Ferry Road
Name change to Palinurus Road			Name change to Rutherford Street
HEATHCOTE RIVER	0.7	1.4	HEATHCOTE RIVER
	1.2	0.9
Name change to Rutherford Street			Name change to Garlands Road
Hillsborough Tanner Street	1.4	0.7	Hillsborough Tanner Street
Linwood Radley Street	1.9	0.2	Linwood Radley Street
MAIN SOUTH LINE	1.9	0.2	MAIN SOUTH LINE
Greymouth, Christchurch CBD, Lyttelton Opawa Road	2.1	0.0	Lyttelton, Greymouth, Christchurch CBD Opawa Road
Start as Garlands Road			End continues as Garlands Road

See also

• Christchurch-Lyttelton Motorway

References

1. ^ State Highway 74 on Google Maps
2. ^ The Previous State Highway 74 on Google Maps
3. ^ "Christchurch Northern Corridor". http://www.nzta.govt.nz/network/projects/christchurch-northern-corridor/. Retrieved 2010-05-29. 
4. ^ "Northern Corridor". http://www.nzta.govt.nz/network/projects/christchurch-northern-corridor/docs/northern-corridor-infosheet.pdf. Retrieved 2010-05-29. 
5. ^ State Highway 74A on Google Maps