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Road rebuild work on State Highway 1 through Kawakawa is tracking well despite the complexity of working with multiple underground services and an active railway through the town centre, all while keeping SH1 open and minimising disruption to local businesses and road users.
Work to reduce rockfall risk above SH6 north of Haast and south of Knights Point near the Epitaph slip site comes to an end next week, says NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi (NZTA).
Reminder: There are road works from this Monday 31 March on the Cambridge section of the Waikato Expressway requiring closures of the left lane in both directions.
A major road asphalting project in Ashburton, affecting night-time travel, due to start this Sunday, 30 March, will now begin Friday, 4 April. The work is due to run for five or so weeks.
NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi advises of the following closures for motorway improvements. Work delayed by bad weather will be completed at the next available date, prior to Friday, 4 April 2025.
State Highway 3 at the southern end of Woodville will reopen to traffic tomorrow morning from 9am, following the completion of construction work on a new roundabout.
State Highway 6 Dellows Bluff, south of Murchison, will be free of containers and back to two lanes by Wednesday 9 April, as contractors pause work to refine and improve plans to repair the slip.
People who drive through the Lower Buller Gorge, east of Westport, will face a 2-hour closure of SH6 next Thursday 3 April, for rock blasting. The highway will be closed from midday to 2pm.
People who travel between Ashburton and Rangitata in Mid-Canterbury will need to build in extra time throughout April, says NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi (NZTA).
A stretch of State Highway 3 around the Mangorei Road roundabout construction site will be under night-time stop/go traffic management from next week as crews rebuild the road surface.
