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SH16 Maintenance And Improvement Works Start This Sunday
Friday, 17 January 2025, 9:20 am | NZ Transport Agency
Our crews will be working to complete these projects as quickly as possible. Detours will be in place for road users, and access to businesses and residents along SH16 may be affected. We strongly advise businesses in the area to plan their operations ... More >>
Closures Resume At State Highway 6 Epitaph Slip Site
Tuesday, 14 January 2025, 3:29 pm | NZ Transport Agency
Severe weather in November saw State Highway 6 closed at the Epitaph Slip site following a major rockfall and flooding. More >>
SH1 Work In Northland Starting Sunday
Friday, 10 January 2025, 2:58 pm | NZ Transport Agency
The road will be closed between 8pm and 5am, Sunday to Thursday. The work is expected to finish the following Monday (20 January). More >>
Canterbury And West Coast: Humming, High-Vis Highways
Friday, 10 January 2025, 1:52 pm | NZ Transport Agency
All drivers need to be factoring additional time into their journeys and checking the Traffic and Travel maps before heading off so they are not surprised by a 20 or 30 minute delay, says NZTA’s Senior Network Manager for Canterbury Sagar Pandey. More >>
Summer Maintenance Crews Grateful For Support From Motorists In Auckland
Tuesday, 7 January 2025, 2:59 pm | NZ Transport Agency
To minimise disruption to road users, NZTA took advantage of lower traffic volumes during the holiday period to replace a bridge joint at Spaghetti Junction and carry out essential maintenance on the Auckland Harbour Bridge. More >>
State Highway 1, Weld Pass Night-Works Planned For Late January
Tuesday, 7 January 2025, 1:12 pm | NZ Transport Agency
Night works are planned for Weld Pass from Wednesday, 29 January to Thursday, 13 February. Work will be carried out nightly between 7 pm and 5 am. More >>
Delays At Milton, South Of Dunedin From Monday, 6 January
Monday, 30 December 2024, 10:31 am | NZ Transport Agency
NZTA crews will be setting up from 6 am Monday, 6 January. Traffic management will be in place for around four weeks. All going well, the fresh road surface could be completed by early February. More >>
Reindeer Ready: SH1 Mangamuka Gorge Reopens In Time For Santa
Friday, 20 December 2024, 8:27 am | NZ Transport Agency
Run, run Rudolph, State Highway 1 between Mangamuka and Kaitaia opened to all vehicles at 12.01am this morning. More >>
South Westland Highway Back To Normal Speeds Until Mid January, Good Progress Rockfall Prevention Work
Thursday, 19 December 2024, 4:15 pm | NZ Transport Agency
“Scaling crews moved onto the area above the road (the rift area), north of the historic underslip, soon after the rockfall and have been working with explosives in recent weeks to clear particular rock features,” says Moira Whinham, Maintenance ... More >>
SH6 Punakaiki To Barrytown Re-opening
Monday, 16 December 2024, 4:55 pm | NZ Transport Agency
Teams working on site have cleared sufficient debris to get the creek flowing back through the culvert that was blocked by the debris flow, meaning the road can safely reopen to road users, NZTA says. More >>
Springfield To Arthur's Pass, SH73, Reopening From Midday, Expect Delays
Friday, 6 December 2024, 12:09 pm | NZ Transport Agency
People will need to factor in extra time for the journey as the convoy covers 20 km between the two straights, says NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi (NZTA). More >>
Good Progress Rock Blasting Above Haast Highway, SH6, Reduced Delays From Next Week Onwards
Friday, 6 December 2024, 10:20 am | NZ Transport Agency
“As from next week, the rock scaling crew will reduce their time to three-and-a-half hours Tuesday and Thursday afternoons, reducing the delays for people using SH6,” says Moira Whinham, Maintenance Contract Manager on the West Coast for NZTA. More >>
Good Progress Rock Blasting Above Haast Highway, SH6, Reduced Delays From Next Week Onwards
Friday, 6 December 2024, 9:58 am | NZ Transport Agency
“As from next week, the rock scaling crew will reduce their time to three-and-a-half hours Tuesday and Thursday afternoons, reducing the delays for people using SH6,” says Moira Whinham, Maintenance Contract Manager on the West Coast for NZTA. More >>
Large Fire Closes SH73 Between West Coast And Canterbury, Take Lewis Pass/SH7 Today – 1.30 Pm Update
Thursday, 5 December 2024, 2:00 pm | NZ Transport Agency
Traffic has been stopped all morning on either side of a large scrub fire next to SH73 around Flock Hill, being managed by Canterbury Fire and Emergency NZ. More >>
Northland Corridor Summer Roadshows Off To A Great Start
Wednesday, 4 December 2024, 2:50 pm | NZ Transport Agency
NZTA Programme Director, Derek Robertson, says the team really enjoyed connecting with people and hearing about what was important to them. More >>
Bridge Work Coming Up On Arthur's Pass Route, SH73
Tuesday, 3 December 2024, 3:16 pm | NZ Transport Agency
Arthur’s Pass route, between the West Coast and Canterbury: bridge maintenance will cause delays for travellers More >>
Haast Highway, SH6 Open Again Overnight After Monitoring Provides Safety Assurance
Friday, 29 November 2024, 11:33 am | NZ Transport Agency
The section of highway reopened a week ago with some restrictions, including the night closures, after a fortnight of rock and slip removals following torrential rain on 9 November. More >>
Upcoming SH18 Westbound Closures For Slip Repair
Wednesday, 27 November 2024, 10:20 am | NZ Transport Agency
The closures will allow contractors to repair a slip on a small section of land next to the SH18 westbound Hobsonville off-ramp, and will be in place between 8pm and 5am on the dates below. More >>
SH6 Re-opens At Epitaph Slip, South Westland - Rockfall Safety Work Continues
Friday, 22 November 2024, 12:10 pm | NZ Transport Agency
Although rockfall safety-critical work has been completed to enable the route to open after nearly a fortnight’s closure, more rockfall reduction work needs to occur to provide more resilience around the clock in future wet weather or land movements, ... More >>
‘Chip’ In For Successful Sealing On SH1, South Of Whangarei To Kaiwaka
Friday, 15 November 2024, 11:26 am | NZ Transport Agency
All work will be carried out at night under stop/go traffic management to minimise disruption for road users. Temporary speed limits and traffic management will remain in place the following day to guide traffic over the new seal and help to embed it ... More >>
