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State Highway 94 is a New Zealand state highway connecting the large Southland town of Gore with one of New Zealand's most popular destinations Milford Sound. It also passes the significant townships of Lumsden and Te Anau as well going through the Homer Tunnel (in this area it is also called the 'Milford Road', with the section from Te Anau up to the Sound being ).〔 The road also goes through Fiordland and crosses the Main Divide of the Southern Alps. It is regarded as one of the most scenic roads in New Zealand, and with a peak elevation of , the country's third highest highway after the Desert Road (SH 1) and the Lindis Pass (SH 8).〔 However, the "Milford Road" part is also one of the more dangerous public roads in New Zealand, with injury crash rates around 65% higher than the rest of New Zealand's network, and a fatality crash rate of almost twice average (per vehicle kilometre travelled),〔(Strategy Study Summary Report - State Highway 94 Te Anau to Milford Sound ) (PDF) - Transit New Zealand, September 2001〕 making it the third most dangerous section of New Zealand's State Highway network (as of 2008).〔''(Country's deadliest roads identified )'' - NZPA via ''Newstalk ZB'', Sunday 27 January 2008〕 == History == The road alignment was first surveyed in 1890 by London-born engineer Robert Holmes, who later became the Engineer-in-Chief of the Public Works Department. Holmes initially preferred a route starting at Lake Wakatipu and running northwest, but the decision was instead made to start from Te Anau. However, the project then languished in planning for 40 years, possibly because in 1889 road building had been removed from the brief of the Public Works Department, and only reinstated with much more limited authority in 1909.〔 It took until 1935 to construct a rough road to the entrance of what would become Homer Tunnel.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「New Zealand State Highway 94」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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