Petrolheads will be converging on Taupō between 19 and 21 April for the New Zealand round of the V8 Supercars Championship. Taking place for the first time at the Taupō International Motorsport Park, crowds of up to 25,000 each day are expected to attend.
Due to several repairs being made on the Pekatahi Bridge, a full road closure between Rewatu Rd and Taneatua Rd is now required from Mon 15 April to Thursday 18 April from 8.30am to 4.30pm - with no access over the bridge. Friday 19 April is a contingency day if required.
State Highway 2 Hewletts Road in Mount Maunganui will be looking fresh by mid-May, after a month’s worth of road rebuilding and resurfacing is completed.
Bay of Plenty Journey Manager Frankie Evans says NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi wants everyone who is travelling this Easter, to have all the information they need so their journey can be as stress free as possible.
An aquatic mural is getting underway in the Bayfair underpass as part of the Baypark to Bayfair Link project, and the community is invited to watch it take shape.
From Sunday 10 to Thursday 14 March, State Highway 29A between the Maungatapu roundabout and SH2/SH29A Te Maunga interchange will be fully closed in both directions to apply final surfacing around the SH29A roundabout at Baypark.
Road rehabilitation night works near Whakamārama in the Western Bay of Plenty on State Highway 2 get underway with surveying tonight at Te Puna Stream bridge.
Work to make State Highway 1 near Cambridge safer for everyone is reaching a major milestone. The fifth turnaround bay in the SH1 Cambridge to Piarere safety improvements project, just north of Hickey Road, will begin construction on 4 March.
It’s full steam ahead around the Coromandel with the work programme ramping up to repair damage caused by last summer’s extreme weather across Coromandel’s state highway network.
With schools starting back there’s been a significant increase in traffic on the state highway network across the Waikato and Bay of Plenty, resulting in lengthy delays for some.
