New video footage released today highlights the challenges the North Canterbury Transport Infrastructure Recovery (NCTIR) crews working at Ohau Point, north of Kaikōura, are facing daily as they construct a new highway around the base of the major landslide.
Excavators and motorscrapers will soon be breaking further new ground on the Hamilton section of the Waikato Expressway Road of National Significance, and with the new earthworks season about to begin, project staff will hold two public information evenings in September to fully inform local communities of upcoming work.
The NZ Transport Agency has published the programme business case for the Nelson Southern Link investigation and outlined the next steps for the development of a detailed business case to develop a new arterial road and progress other activities to ease congestion in the city.
The NZ Transport Agency is advising motorists that the Northern Gateway Toll Road (SH1 between the Silverdale interchange and Puhoi) will be closed in both directions next week for important maintenance work.
Twenty nine innovative cycling projects and dedicated people from across New Zealand were announced today as finalists for the 2017 Bike to the Future Awards.
A wet winter hasn’t hampered work on the $195 million Christchurch Southern Motorway – Stage 2 (CSM2) project, with more than 300,000 cubic metres of earth moved, two new local roads built and the first of eight bridges almost complete.
The NZ Transport Agency says work is progressing on a replacement for the current Manawatū Gorge road, with the announcement today that the contract to develop a Detailed Business Case has been awarded to professional services company GHD Advisory.
Lower Buller Gorge drivers should plan for delays of up to 50 minutes every hour from 8.30 am to 5 pm on Friday, 1 September and Saturday, 2 September.
The NZ Transport Agency is closing State Highway 6 at Meybille Bay north of Punakaiki next week, from Thursday morning to Friday afternoon, 7-8 September, for geotechnical investigations. “We are working towards a more permanent solution for the slip site at Meybille Bay,” says Transport Agency Journey Manager Lee Wright.
The NZ Transport Agency is advising that traffic management is being put in place on Taranaki’s state highway 3 near Lake Mangamahoe so damage to a large stormwater culvert, can be repaired.
The upgraded intersection of State Highway 20A and Kirkbride Road has opened to traffic this morning and will help to improve journeys to, from and around Auckland Airport.
A traffic signal is being installed at Christchurch’s Halswell Junction Road/Springs Road roundabout this month to reduce congestion and improve safety during the morning commuter peak. The signal will be operational by the end of September.
Road users are advised that the State Highway 1 viaduct over Auckland’s Victoria Park will be closed for maintenance work overnight for the next three months.