Mt messenger – latest update 2025

We’ll soon begin excavating the 235-metre tunnel for the future Te Ara o Te Ata – Mt Messenger Bypass in North Taranaki.

The hard tunnelling work will be completed by specialist crews from the Mt Messenger Alliance, with the help of a 110-tonne road header machine – a type of machine that cuts through rock using a head with spikes, as you can see in this video.

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