With the holidays just around the corner and New Zealand already well into the season of Christmas parties, barbecues and other well-earned celebrations, the NZ Transport Agency is urging drivers to make the right choices to keep safe on the road.
The NZ Transport Agency and Canterbury Police are reminding Banks Peninsula rural property owners of their responsibility to keep animals safely fenced after a significant rise in reports of wandering stock over the last few weeks.
Queenstown people used to detouring at Frankton onto Glenda Drive and the Eastern Access Road off State Highway 6 are in for a change from Wednesday, 16 December.
Summer is the time the NZ Transport Agency undertakes most of its road works, to keep state highways and bridges well maintained and safe for drivers and all road users.
Minister of Transport Hon Simon Bridges turned the first sod and planted a kowhai tree at Queenstown’s Kawarau Falls new bridge site this morning, celebrating the start of the $22 million project. It is expected to be completed in the third quarter of 2017.
