The NZ Transport Agency is continuing to monitor traffic along the new State Highway 1 alignment between Mackays Crossing and Paekākāriki following congestion over the weekend and this morning.
The NZ Transport Agency advises motorists that passing lanes at Maramarua on SH2 will be closed for safety reasons during busy Christmas and New Year holiday travel periods.
The NZ Transport Agency has partnered with Love to Ride to bring back the Aotearoa Bike Challenge for its third year, and it takes place in February 2019.
The NZ Transport Agency advises of the following closures for motorway improvements. Closures start at 9pm and finish at 5am, unless otherwise stated. Work delayed by bad weather will be completed at the next available date, prior to Friday, 21 December 2018. Please note this Traffic Bulletin is updated every Friday.
The NZ Transport Agency is pleased to announce that following a second round of public feedback the design and materials of a replacement balustrade for the Ōrākei Basin boardwalk has been selected. The Ōrākei Basin boardwalk forms Section 3 of the Glen Innes to Tamaki Drive Shared Path, a seven kilometre walking and cycling path, connecting people with routes at Pt England and Tamaki Drive.
The NZ Transport Agency is making permanent the speed reductions near Kaikōura put in place a year ago, when State Highway 1 reopened following the November 2016 earthquake.
The NZ Transport Agency has announced that the preferred corridor for the new 24.2 kilometre Ōtaki to north of Levin road is one that runs closest to State Highway 1 and, in the northern section, alongside State Highway 57.
The NZ Transport Agency advises that State Highway 29A (SH29A) between the Baypark and Te Maunga roundabouts in Tauranga will be closed from 8pm Friday, 14 December to 4am Monday, 17 December.
The NZ Transport Agency says a digger working on the SH1/Tarewa Road intersection upgrade in Whangārei has cut a fibre optic cable, affecting about 1500 customers.
Road crews in Northland are going all-out on state highway maintenance and have already completed nearly half their summer programme of road re-sealing.
The NZ Transport Agency says the decision and recommendation released today by Independent Hearing Commissioner Stephen Daysh on the Mt Messenger Bypass Project granting the resource consents for the project and recommending to the NZ Transport Agency that the Notice of Requirement (NOR) be confirmed is a major milestone and reflects a tremendous amount of effort and input from technical experts, communities and other stakeholders.