NZ Transport Agency contractors have resumed urgent work to assess the safety of key South Island state highway routes and continue clearing slips to safely re-open roads as soon as conditions allow.
Following a series of earthquakes and aftershocks throughout Monday 14 November, the NZ Transport Agency is continuing to assess state highways across the top of the South Island and where possible, safely reopen parts of the highway closed by slips.
The State Highway 2 off-ramp at Ngauranga, Wellington will be closed for resurfacing and new road marking on the night of Sunday 13 November, from 10pm until 5am Monday 14 November.
The NZ Transport Agency has released information from the first phase of its investigation into possible improvements to State Highway 1 Picton to Christchurch. The investigation focusses on the area between Picton in Marlborough and the Ashley River Bridge in Canterbury.
The NZ Transport Agency has started work on improving safety for pedestrians at the intersection of State Highway 35 Customhouse Street and Gladstone Road by moving a pedestrian crossing point.
Summer weather is on its way, which means barbeques, backyard cricket and baches. It also signals the start of the summer roadworks season with crews busy doing repairs, resurfacing and maintenance work on Nelson and Tasman’s state highways.
The NZ Transport Agency is about to start work constructing a new retaining wall where a slip has currently reduced the highway to a single lane, on the Nelson side of the Takaka Hill.
The NZ Transport Agency is giving Vivian Street in Wellington a new asphalt surface to provide a quieter and more resilient road to cope with the 20,000-plus vehicles using it every day.
The NZ Transport Agency has been investigating transport corridors across the Tasman region in order to identify opportunities for making travel safer, resilient and more efficient.
The NZ Transport Agency is reminding motorists heading north on State Highway 1 out of Wellington for Labour Weekend to pay extra attention, with changes to the road layout at both Poplar Ave and through Peka Peka, as part of the construction works for the new Mackays to Peka Peka (M2PP) Expressway.
The last major structure needed for the State Highway 2/State Highway 58 Haywards Interchange is taking shape, with the first of four reinforced concrete beams for the new Manor Park pedestrian overbridge to be placed over Labour Weekend.
The Opawa Bridge Replacement project, part of the Government’s Accelerated Regional Roading Programme announced by Prime Minister John Key and Transport Minister Simon Bridges in January 2016, has moved forward a step today.
New signs designed to encourage truck drivers to reduce their speed as they approach the Otaihanga roundabout on State Highway 1, Kapiti Coast, are soon to be installed by the NZ Transport Agency.