Editing Upper Hutt (section)

===Road===
[[New Zealand State Highway 2|State Highway 2]] is the principal highway through Upper Hutt, connecting with [[Lower Hutt]] and [[Wellington]]'s motorway system to the south, and the [[Wairarapa]] region via the [[Remutaka Hill|Remutaka Hill Road]] to the north.

Fergusson Drive is the main thoroughfare through suburban Upper Hutt, passing through the city centre and connecting to State Highway 2 at Silverstream and Maoribank. It formed part of State Highway 2 before the River Road bypass opened in 1987.

In the 1980s, significant travel delays were being experienced through Upper Hutt, with State Highway 2 traffic travelling from Lower Hutt and Wellington to central Upper Hutt and further afield to the Wairarapa being funnelled down the two-lane Fergusson Drive and mixing with local traffic through Silverstream and Trentham. With the central government reluctant to fund any road improvements in the area, the Upper Hutt City Council commissioned the construction of a two-laned high-speed bypass along the banks of Te Awa Kairangi / Hutt River from the Taitā Gorge in the south to Māoribank in the north. River Road, as the road became known, opened in 1987. It promptly ran at full capacity and, after several serious accidents that were a legacy of its origins, it was enlarged and re-engineered to cope with the growing traffic volume. Today, River Road is a median-divided [[2+1 road]] from the Taitā Gorge to Tōtara Park, with two-laned undivided sections over the Moonshine Bridge and from Tōtara Park to Maoribank.

[[New Zealand State Highway 58|State Highway 58]], while only briefly in Upper Hutt itself, intersects with SH 2 a short distance to the south of the boundary of Upper Hutt and Lower Hutt, and provides a link between Upper Hutt and [[Porirua]].

[[New Zealand State Highway 1|State Highway 1]] (as the [[Transmission Gully Motorway]]) briefly touches Upper Hutt at the Wainui Saddle (the [[tripoint]] of Upper Hutt, [[Porirua City]] and the [[Kāpiti Coast District]]), but otherwise does not pass through the region.