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Dominion Road is an arterial road in Auckland, New Zealand, running north–south across most of the Auckland isthmus. It is a major public transport route that carries 50,000 bus passengers each week,[1] making it one of the few roads in Auckland on which similar or greater numbers of people travel by public transport than by private car.[2]

The road, which passes through mostly suburban areas (and several town centres), has been described as having a colourful mix of shops, exemplified by areas like the "United Nations of restaurants" around the Balmoral town centre. There are claims that the road's development has been held back by uncertainty about future roading / public transport development plans for the last decade, which prevented investment certainty, and led to low shop rents.[3]

In international popular culture, Dominion Road achieved some fame by The Mutton Birds' 1992 song titled "Dominion Road".[4]

Route

Dominion Road in the 1900s, showing its origins as a typical "tram era" street.[5]
The road begins in Eden Terrace as a continuation of Ian McKinnon Drive, which itself begins at upper Queen Street. Ian McKinnon Drive becomes Dominion Road south of a grade-separated intersection over New North Road (grade separation of non-motorway intersections is rare in Auckland). The road then continues in a straight line for almost 6 kilometres (the longest straight stretch of road on the Auckland Isthmus), going through the suburbs of Mt Eden, Balmoral and Mt Roskill until bending slightly just before its intersection with Richardson Road at the Mt Roskill South Shops. Dominion Road Extension then continues until it ends at Hillsborough Road in Waikowhai, overlooking the Manukau Harbour on the southern side of the Auckland isthmus.

History
The road was created in the late 1840s by Cornish settler John Walters, who made the path to better connect his farm (at modern-day Bellevue Road) to Eden Terrace in the north. The road was developed in the 1860s, and for much of its early life was known as Mt Roskill Road. The road's name was changed in 1907, to celebrate the proclamation of New Zealand becoming a Dominion. In the 1910s, the road stopped at Landscape Road (then known as Boundary Road), as further to the south, a series of small hills known to early Aucklanders as the Kopjes hindered travel.[6]

The road was extended to the south in the 1920s, and in 1929 the road to the south which met Hillsborough Road, Arkell Road, was renamed as Dominion Road Extension.[6]