An advance direction sign showing white urban route shields.
Map showing all urban routes in Auckland
The Auckland urban route network consists of strategic and primary arterial roads across the Auckland Region of New Zealand. Urban routes are signposted with white shields with black numbers and borders. To avoid conflict with state highway numbering, there are no urban routes numbered 1, 2, 16, 18, 20, or 22.[1]
Urban route shields are commonly found on signage at motorway interchanges and major urban intersections. The shields are accompanied by supplementary plates with arrows to direct road users along the route. Sometimes more than one urban route shield will be included on a signpost.[2] Freestanding urban route shields are also used between intersections as reassurance that the driver is still following the route.
Urban routes
This is a list of current posted urban routes in Auckland.
The same shield is occasionally employed elsewhere for "Regional Route" roads. These include the route UR1 in New Plymouth, the former route K in Tauranga (now SH29), and revoked state highways like the Inland Kaikoura Road (Route 70), Inland Scenic Route 72, and Route 67, the northernmost extent of SH67 on the West Coast.
The exception to this is Hamilton which has its own urban route network, but mostly only for main collector roads.
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