TEL QUICK FACTS

■ Nationally significant and the Bay of Plenty’s largest roading project

■ 21km of four-lane median-divided highway

■ $455 million cost

■ 3500-plus inductions onsite (staff numbers peaked at 280 in late 2013)

■ 1.5 million hours worked

■ 220,000sq m of new road

■ 300,000 new native plants

■ 3,000,000sq m of earthworks moved

■ Six different iwi represented within the project

■ 150 farmers consulted for land access

■ 92 per cent of the public voted yes to having the road tolled, knowing it would bring construction forward by 10 years.