Lower North Island/Upper South Island - Planned state highway roadworks

Important information for drivers.

Lower North Island

• Resurfacing work is ongoing on State Highway 2 in the Hutt Valley. Drivers must plan for nighttime northbound closures and local road detours. Please allow extra time for your travel while this work is underway.

• • State Highway 2 Hutt Valley resurfacing works back for week four.

• The SH2 Haywards northbound offramp will be closed  from midnight on Monday to 3:30 am Tuesday for gantry sign replacement work. Drivers intending to travel on SH58 to Pāuatahanui will have to take the Silverstream off-ramp, turn around at the Eastern Hutt Road Roundabout and continue south on SH2 to take the Haywards southbound off-ramp. This will require extra travel time.

• SH2 Remutaka Hill has work ongoing at three separate sites which will see three separate stop/go operations on Sunday night. This includes:
  • A 24/7 stop go at an underslip site on the Featherston side of the hill.
    • UPDATE: Stop/Go on State Highway 2 Remutaka Hill to remain in place at underslip site.

• • An overslip on the hill has seen the closure of a slow vehicle lane on the Featherston side of the hill for safety reasons. Further work is planned to remove loose rock at risk of falling onto the road, and safety barriers will be installed to further protect traffic at the slip site this Sunday night. Stop/Go traffic management will be in place while this is completed.

• • Work is complete on rockfall protection near the hill’s summit. There will be a stop/go in place on Sunday night as road crews remove safety barriers from the work site.
    • UPDATE: Rockfall protection work about to finish on State Highway 2 Remutaka Hill

Top of the South Island

• Resurfacing work begins this Sunday night on State Highway 6 Gladstone Road in Richmond. It continues until 10 October.

• • Reminder: Night-time resurfacing work planned for State Highway 6 Lower Queen Street Richmond intersection

• Underslip repairs continue on State Highway 60 Tākaka Hill. This work is ongoing until December.

• • State Highway 60 Tākaka Hill underslip repairs

The details below outline the main planned state highway roadworks occurring in the greater Wellington region and the top of the South Island over the coming week (from Saturday 21 September).

View/download the planned state highway roadworks for the Lower North Island/Upper South Island [PDF, 306 KB]

NOTE: Roadworks are dependent on weather and other factors. Bad weather can see work postponed to the next suitable night in the works programme.

Further details about regional state highway conditions and roadworks are also published on our website:

• Wellington roadworks(external link)
• Wellington Transport Alliance
• Nelson/Marlborough traffic updates(external link)
• Tasman traffic updates(external link)