Editing Napier, New Zealand (section)

==Transportation==

===Air===
[[Hawke's Bay Airport]] is the main airport in the Hawke's Bay region and has domestic flight services. It is jointly owned by the government, Napier City Council, and Hastings District Council, and is operated by Hawke's Bay Airport Ltd. The airport is located in the Napier suburb of [[Westshore, New Zealand|Westshore]]. [[Air New Zealand]] provides frequent direct flights to and from Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. [[Sunair]] serves Tauranga, Hamilton, Gisborne and Wairoa. [[Jetstar Airways|Jetstar]], a [[Qantas]] subsidiary, served Auckland from 2015 to 2019<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/news/74572971/jetstars-first-napier-to-auckland-regional-flight-touches-down-early |title=Jetstar's first Napier to Auckland regional flight touches down early |website=[[Stuff (website)|Stuff]] |date=December 2015 |access-date=11 November 2017}}</ref> and [[Sounds Air]] used to operate direct flights to [[Blenheim, New Zealand|Blenheim]] daily. Smaller charter companies also operate, including [[Air Napier]] to Gisborne. The airport was historically referred to as Napier Airport, and its [[IATA airport code|IATA]] code reflects that: NPE. It is situated on land that was formerly the Ahuriri Lagoon, an area that was raised above sea level by the 1931 Napier earthquake.<ref name="nzherald.co.nz">{{cite web |url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-today/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503462&objectid=11531922 |title=Airport's 'historic' renaming |date=20 October 2015 |work=[[The New Zealand Herald]] }}</ref> The airport is located approximately 22&nbsp;km north of [[Hastings Aerodrome]], a smaller airport located close to Hastings that caters mainly for flight training and general aviation.

===Pathways===

The Hawke's Bay region has extensive cycleways and footpaths that originally began as the 'Rotary Pathways' between Napier and Hastings, and is now known as the 'Hawke's Bay Trails'. The network of pathways links the urban areas of Napier and Hastings, as well as many of the other outlying suburbs of the two cities. Some of the cycleways include dedicated cycling lanes on roads within the city, as well as separate dedicated pathways on roadsides and through parks and other areas, many of which are mixed use pathways for cyclists and pedestrians, such as the paths that stretch from Bay View to Clifton. The Hawke's Bay Trails contain over 200&nbsp;km of cycleways that meander through and around the Napier-Hastings twin cities.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nzcycletrail.com/hawkes-bay-trails |title=Hawke's Bay Trails |work=NZ Cycle Trail}}</ref> The Napier Rotary Pathway creates a loop that encompasses the city from Esk River, to Westshore, Napier Central, Awatoto, Taradale, Poraiti, and looping back to the Esk Valley. This rotary also has several links to the Hastings Rotary Pathway.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.napier.govt.nz/napier/projects/rotary-pathway/ |title=Rotary Pathway |work=napier.govt.nz}}</ref>

===Roads===
[[State Highway 2 (New Zealand)|State Highway 2]] is the principal state highway serving Napier, connecting it to [[Wairoa]] and [[Gisborne, New Zealand|Gisborne]] to the north, and, via [[Dannevirke]], to [[Wellington]], [[Masterton]] and [[Palmerston North]] to the south.  Between Napier and Hastings, SH 2 follows the [[Hawke's Bay Expressway]], also known as the Napier-Hastings Expressway, which provides a direct and efficient link between the two cities.  Although the Hawke's Bay Expressway bypasses Napier itself, it has connections to many of Napier's arterial roads that lead to the city centre and the Port (such as the junctions at Kennedy Road, Taradale Road, Prebensen Drive and Meeanee Quay) and also intersects with the access road to Hawke's Bay Airport.

[[State Highway 5 (New Zealand)|State Highway 5]], known as the Napier-Taupo Road, begins at a junction on SH 2 just north of the Napier suburb of Bay View, and connects Napier and the Hawke's Bay region to [[Taupō]] and the central North Island. It is also the main route used for traffic travelling from Napier-Hastings to Auckland, Hamilton, Rotorua and Tauranga, as it is quicker than the route through Gisborne taken by SH 2.

[[State Highway 50 (New Zealand)|State Highway 50]] connects Napier to the southwestern Hawke's Bay, going through many small settlements. It also connects Napier to many of Hawke's Bay's wineries, of which the region is well known for. It makes up part of the Hawke's Bay Wine Trail.

[[State Highway 51 (New Zealand)|State Highway 51]] is an alternative connection between Napier and Hastings, and largely follows the original route of SH 2 between the two cities prior to the completion of the Hawke's Bay Expressway, and SH 2 being shifted to run along it.  While the original route followed Meeanee Quay through the suburbs of Westshore and Ahuriri before bridging across the Pandora Pond area of the Napier Inner Harbour marina, the SH 51 route follows Taradale Road instead, meeting up with the original SH 2 route at the southern base of Napier Hill at Hyderabad Road.  The route then moves onto Georges Drive, where it borders the southern and western edges of the Napier city centre. It meets up with Marine Parade south of the CBD, and then follows the coast south from Napier through Clive to Hastings.

====Buses====
[[Go Bus Transport|Go Bus]] operates 9 ''Go Bay'' routes in Napier, with funding from Regional Council.<ref>{{Cite web |title=goBay Hawke's Bay Bus Service {{!}} New Zealand |url=https://www.gobay.co.nz/ |access-date=21 August 2020|website=www.gobay.co.nz}}</ref> [[Bee Card (New Zealand)|Bee Cards]] replaced goBay cards in August 2020.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bee Card {{!}} goBay Hawke's Bay Bus Service |url=https://www.gobay.co.nz/bee-card/ |access-date=21 August 2020|website=www.gobay.co.nz}}</ref>

===Rail===
The [[Palmerston North–Gisborne Line]] runs through Napier. The southern portion of the line between Napier and Palmerston North was built between 1872 and 1891, and the northern portion between Napier and Gisborne from 1912 to 1942. The line from Gisborne enters Napier via the coast, making its way through the city, before eventually turning inland towards Hastings, and onwards to [[Woodville, New Zealand|Woodville]] (where the [[Wairarapa Line]] branches off) and Palmerston North.

The [[Ahuriri Branch|Napier Port Branch]], formerly known as the Ahuriri Branch, is a 2&nbsp;km railway branch line off the Palmerston North-Gisborne Line that serves the Port of Napier. [[Napier Railway Station, New Zealand|Napier Railway Station]] was the main railway station in Napier and an intermediate stop on the Palmerston North-Gisborne Line. It opened on 12 October 1874, when the station and the first section of the line between Napier and Hastings was opened. The line through the [[Manawatū Gorge]] to Palmerston North and hence to Wellington was opened on 9 March 1891. The line north of Napier to Gisborne was opened on 3 August 1942, with passenger services from 7 September. Napier was the terminus for both Gisborne and Wellington goods trains, though some passenger trains ran straight through.

The original Napier station building was on the corner of Station Street and Millar Street, close to the centre of Napier. The facilities on the site increased to include the passenger station plus a goods yard, locomotive depot, workshop and a way and works branch. The line was on a curve and difficult to work, and the site was limited by level crossings at each end and with no room for expansion.

Hence, in a two-year programme to 1991, most functions followed the Way and Works to Pandora Point, at the start of the [[Ahuriri Branch]], leaving only a new InterCity coach and train terminal on the city site, fronting Munroe Street. The old station was closed on 6 October 1990, and was replaced by a new station on 9 June 1991.<ref name=Scoble2012>''Names & Opening & Closing Dates of Railway Stations in New Zealand'' by Juliet Scoble (2012)</ref> The existing station and three-story administrative block built in the late 1950s and early 1960s were demolished and some three hectares of land was available for retail development.

A marshalling yard, freight terminal, locomotive depot and other facilities were established at Pandora Point, with a triangle provided to turn trains and giving direct access north and south from the port branch. The Ahuriri yard was closed. The old main line north to Gisborne was realigned to the east to allow a new link road to the Tamatea area of Napier, and railways land was redeveloped as an industrial subdivision. On 7 October 2001 the [[Bay Express]] from Wellington to Napier was cancelled and passenger services on the line ceased.