The NZ Transport Agency is advising if you are in Wellington please stay in town and listen to radio or social media for updates. Avoid all unnecessary travel.
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.
NZ Transport Agency contractors will resume work at first light tomorrow to assess the safety of key South Island state highway routes and continue clearing slips to safely re-open roads 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 annual Bike the Bridge event takes place this weekend and will involve lane closures to the Northern Motorway and Auckland Harbour Bridge between 12.00am (midnight) and 10.00am, Sunday 13 November.
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 is holding a community event this Saturday to give the public a chance to see and hear what’s been happening on the Maungatapu underpass site.
The NZ Transport Agency’s West Coast maintenance crews have just reopened State Highway 6 at Lake Moeraki, between Haast and Fox Glacier, the site of a slip caused by torrential rain earlier today. The road is also open at the nearby Douglas Culvert where crews have temporarily repaired the culvert so drivers can get through.
The NZ Transport Agency closed State Highway 6 near Lake Moeraki, between Haast and Fox Glacier, South Westland, at 8.30 am today due to a slip and damage to the nearby Douglas Culvert.
The NZ Transport Agency and Waimakariri District Council are working together to look at ways to tackle morning peak congestion and make the journey between Waimakariri and Christchurch safer and easier.
The NZ Transport Agency’s West Coast contracting teams worked hard to reopen State Highway 6 along the South Island’s West Coast at the weekend after a significant washout scoured and undermined the highway.
The NZ Transport Agency has awarded the contract for construction of a new two-lane bridge across the Taramakau River to Fulton Hogan, paving the way for work to begin next month.