Having recently returned from LA, I've come to realise how poor we are with navigation instructions on Auckland motorways.

Almost every LA freeway split or exit is specifically tailored to provide the correct navigation instruction to allow a user to navigate across to the correct lane in time for the exit, split or whatever. Take a look at the example spaghetti here. It looks ugly, but driving through it was reasonably easy.

Comparing with Auckland, I drove from Vector Arena in the city to Te Atatu the other day; the navigation instruction to join the motorway was "Keep right onto Stanley St", followed by "In x minutes, exit left onto Te Atatu Rd". No mention of the split for SH16 and SH1(S). Even worse, no mention of the split for SH16 and SH1(N). I know some of these are technically exits and locals have a general idea of the direction they should be heading, but for a visitor navigating these they would be totally lost.

So...
I would like to update these junctions to provide the additional navigation instructions (modelling them on what I experienced in LA - each instruction basically replicates what a driver can see on the overhead sign), beginning with the Stanley St entrances as a test and progressing from there.

Does anyone have any comments, thoughts, or feedback?