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A project to improve safety for road users on a stretch of rural State Highway 34 west of Te Teko to Kawerau will get underway at the end of this month.
‘Know before you go’ to avoid travel delays and disruption is the message from the NZ Transport Agency, as the annual road maintenance season gets underway across Canterbury.
Motorists travelling north from Main North Road onto the Christchurch Northern Motorway are advised to expect changes to the road layout from later this week, as work on the Western Belfast Bypass continues.
A serious single truck crash has closed State Highway 1 in South Canterbury thismorning, between the Rangitata and Orari Rivers, north of Timaru, potentially until after lunch today.
Anyone heading to Christchurch International Airport tonight through to Monday at 6am needs to add an extra 20 minutes to their journey time calculations, says the NZ Transport Agency.
The NZ Transport Agency advises of the following closures for motorway improvements. Closures start at 9pm and finish at 5am, unless otherwise stated. Work delayed by bad weather will be completed at the next available date, prior to Friday, 3 February 2017. Please note this Traffic Bulletin is updated every Friday.
The NZ Transport Agency is opening State Highway 73 over the weekend with two lanes and speed restrictions past the Deception Point slip on the Lower Otira Gorge.
The reopening of State Highway 73 through the lower Otira Gorge and past the large Deception Point slip has gone well for the past three days, says NZ Transport Agency Journey Manager Lee Wright. “Drivers have been patient, driving cautiously and glad to get the route reopened, albeit with delays.”
Motorists will start to notice changes to some motorway direction signs in preparation for the opening of the Waterview Tunnel in April and the greater Western Ring Route.
Traffic signals are being trialled on the Maruia River Bridge on State Highway 65 just north of Springs Junction. The signals will start working either later today or first thing tomorrow, January 27, once all the road markings are in place.
The NZ Transport Agency’s new traffic signals on State Highway 1 Ashburton, near the site of the new Progressive Enterprises Countdown Supermarket, will be turned on next week, the first week of February.
The next phase in the NZ Transport Agency’s safety upgrade at intersection of State Highway 1, State Highway 62 and Ferry Road at Spring Creek in Marlborough started this week with installation of new stormwater drainage.
With two consecutive long weekends approaching, Waikato-Bay of Plenty travellers are being urged to plan their journeys and try to avoid congestion hotspots.
