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The slip on the Otira Gorge, State Highway 73, which closed the road between the West Coast and Canterbury today should be cleared by 6pm with traffic reduced to one lane.
State Highway 73 has been closed to all traffic, from Arthur’s Pass Village to Otira, after a slip on the West Coast side of the pass near the Rock Shelter.
From early Monday morning, 28 September, the temporary roundabout at the SH6 Glenda Drive intersection will be removed and the State highway traffic will again have priority. The work is necessary for the next stage in construction by the NZ Transport Agency.
The NZ Transport Agency’s ten weeks of road repairs on the state highway just 3km south of Oaro, near Kaikoura, scheduled for the end of September is now likely to start 12 October.
Routine surface repairs are planned for the Taramakau Bridge tomorrow, Friday, 25 September. It will result in up to 15 minute delays over the day, with the morning and afternoon busy periods open.
The NZ Transport Agency has announced that the Haast Pass (State highway 6) and the Dunedin to Waitati Highway/Dunedin Northern Motorway (State highway 1) now have their own MetService Road Snowfall Warnings.
The NZ Transport Agency is currently negotiating a new maintenance contract for the Southland state highway network with a partnership led by SouthRoads Ltd.
Users of the Red Bridge over the Clutha River on State highway 8A (SH8A) between Luggate and Tarras face a detour of up to 15 minutes for three days next week, while deck repairs are carried out on the bridge.
The new, developer-funded roundabout connecting Shotover Country subdivision to State highway 6 will start to affect Queenstown drivers by the middle of this week (Wednesday 16 September).
As part of Christchurch’s Russley Road capital works, the NZ Transport Agency will be reducing the Memorial Ave roundabout to a single lane at nights, to install services.
Repairs to State highway 1 under the Deborah Overbridge, just south of Oamaru, later this month aren’t expected to cause major delays for road users, although a short detour will be in place for some of the time.
