A new $64 million, seven-year contract covering the maintenance and operation of the NZ Transport Agency’s Southland state highway network, will start on Tuesday 1 March.
The NZ Transport Agency is urging Christchurch drivers to be aware of changes on Johns Road, State Highway 1, from the Groynes to Sawyers Arms Road roundabout from tomorrow, Thursday 25 February.
One of New Zealand’s largest crawler cranes is set to begin lifting bridge beams into place on the Waikanae River bridge next month as part of the Mackays to Peka Peka Expressway project.
The NZ Transport Agency is advising motorists that SH2 at the Waimana Gorge (Taneatua to Opotiki) is closed to all traffic due to flooding in the Waimana River.
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, 26 February 2016. Please note this Traffic Bulletin is updated every Friday.
Design will start later this year on the realignment of State Highway 1 to the north-west side of the Fonterra site in Edendale, Southland, bypassing the Edendale community.
The NZ Transport Agency says Auckland motorists have played an important role in minimising disruption from today’s bus strike by changing their usual travel patterns.
Conditions on West Coast and Buller highways should improve today with rain forecast to ease mid-morning in South Westland and lunch time in the Buller.
The NZ Transport Agency says Auckland motorists should ditch their cars tomorrow to help ease the expected pressure on the motorway network due to bus drivers industrial action.
NZ Transport Agency road crews are working hard to keep State Highway 6 south of Hokitika to the Glaciers open as the rain buckets down and is not anticipated to slow for 24 hours.
Bridge strengthening work on the Beaumont Bridge, which spans the Clutha River on State Highway 8, will require it to be closed for up to ten nights, with hourly traffic openings, early to mid-March.
