 The intersection of SH1 and State Highway 1b (SH1B) is at the northern end of Taupiri.When the Ngāruawāhia Bypass section of the Waikato Expressway is completed the first 2 kilometres of SH1b will become SH1 which will mean that SH1 will bypass Taupiri.Until sometime in the 19th century, a large Māori village or town, Kaitotehe, stood on the flat land on the other side of the river, below the Hākarimata Range.