Hawke's Bay Expressway
The Hawke's Bay Expressway, known also as the Napier-Hastings Expressway, runs from Hawke's Bay Airport, through Napier and Hastings, and ends at Pakipaki, just south of Hastings, a total length of 24 km.After the approaches for the Kennedy Road overbridge had stood each side of the dual carriageway from Napier to Taradale for several decades, work began to strengthen them and build the bridge in 2002.In 2019, the New Zealand Transport Agency approved renumbering of the entire expressway to SH 2.[2] The expressway remains single carriageway along its length at present, although it has been designed to allow dual-carriageway upgrading.This became an electoral commitment by the National Party in the 2017 election as part of a series of national upgrades to roads, but the Party were not successful at forming a Government in the post-election coalition negotiations.