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Motorways – roads within urban areas that were to be used only by motor vehicles – were first allowed for by legislation in 1947. This section of motorway, which is State Highway One near Johnsonville, Wellington, was the first part of a new kind of road that became increasingly common in New Zealand cities from the 1950s.
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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)
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