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Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency has awarded a $3 million contract for work to manage coastal erosion affecting State Highway 1 alongside Katiki Beach, North Otago. The contract has been awarded to Downer NZ.
Following Labour Weekend, those who travel along State Highway 6 between Cromwell and Queenstown will spot Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency’s Nevis Bluff spring safety programme underway.
Ahead of the three-day Labour Weekend, with fine weather forecast, Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency reminds travellers of a useful tool that shows predicted traffic flows at particular times, based on previous years’ travel patterns.
Ahead of the three-day Labour Weekend, with fine weather forecast, Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency reminds travellers of a useful tool that shows predicted traffic flows at particular times, based on previous years’ travel patterns.
Queenstown Lakes District road users will notice road resurfacing activities on Frankton Road, starting at the end of Labour Weekend and running through to mid-November.
On Tuesday 13 October, Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency announced a timetable change (starting Sunday 18 October) to the night work to install permanent rockfall protection between Peketa and the Parititahi Tunnels south of Kaikōura to increase productivity.
Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency is advising road users that starting next week (from Monday 19 October) due to construction work, temporary traffic lights will be operating at the SH7 Ahaura River Bridge.
Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency and the North Canterbury Transport Infrastructure Recovery (NCTIR) alliance have completed the major earthquake repairs on the Inland Road (Route 70).
Over 50 slips occurred on the Inland Road, and seven bridges were damaged in the November 2016 Kaikōura earthquake.
Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency is advising drivers that night time work to install permanent rockfall protection on SH1 between Peketa and the Parititahi Tunnels south of Kaikōura has been extended to late December, with some changes to the road open/close timetable.
Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency will be reducing State Highway 8, inland from Milton at the western end of the Manuka Gorge, the gateway to Central Otago, to one lane next week. The highway shoulder will be repaired.
With the arrival of warmer weather, after the snow, gales and flooding of the past week or so, comes the beginning of the road work season on Southland state highways.
Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency is eyeing late 2020 to celebrate completion of the new State Highway 1 (SH1) Ōpaoa River Bridge, north of Blenheim, as final works get underway on this eagerly-awaited project.
