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2025: a year of milestones for Te Ara o Te Ata - Mt Messenger Bypass  

Highlights of 2025

19 Dec 2025

It’s been a year of milestones for the project.

Te Ara o Te Ata - Mt Messenger Tunnel break through  

Tunnel breakthrough

29 Oct 2025

Here’s the incredible moment we broke through on the new tunnel we’re building for the Mt Messenger Bypass.

Mt Messenger Bypass (SH3) - great for freight  

Great for freight

15 Sept 2025

The new bypass we are building around Mt Messenger in Taranaki will make State Highway 3 much safer and more resilient.

Te Ara o Te Ata - Mt Messenger Bypass animated fly over. September 2025  

Driving the bypass

8 Sept 2025

Experience how it will feel to drive Te Ara o Te Ata – Mt Messenger Bypass with our updated simulation.

Mt Messenger Bypass Tunnel update, July 2025  

Tunnel update July 2025

1 Aug 2025

A further look at the work tunnellers are doing on our Te Ara o Te Ata - Mt Messenger Bypass project in north Taranaki.

Mt Messenger Bypass Tunnel Drone Fly-in, July 2025  

Inside the tunnel July 2025

28 Jul 2025

A look behind the scenes as excavations of the top section of the Mt Messenger Bypass Tunnel pass 100 metres. While the 110-tonne road header gets most…

Mt Messenger Bypass: flyover July 2025  

Drone flyover July 2025

17 Jul 2025

Welcome to our latest flyover, voiced by Project Alliance Director Dale Burtenshaw. The project sites are quieter at this time of the year, but there is still…

Voices of Te Ara o Te Ata – Ngarimu Hodge  

Voices of Te Ara o Te Ata – Ngarimu Hodge

16 Jul 2025

Meet Ngarimu from the cultural monitoring team on our Te Ara o Te Ata - Mt Messenger Bypass project in north Taranaki. Alongside his colleagues from Te…

Voices of Te Ara o Te Ata – Whetu o Te Rangi O’Carroll  

Voices of Te Ara o Te Ata – Whetu o Te Rangi O’Carroll

3 Jul 2025

Meet Whetu o Te Rangi, one of the project’s wonderful team of Tangata Tiaki/Cultural Monitors. Alongside his colleagues from Te Ara o Te Ata partner Ngāti Tama,…

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