The NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) will be trialling initiatives to manage returning traffic through Otaki this Labour weekend in order to ease congestion that regularly builds on State Highway 1 at holiday periods.
New traffic lights on the SH75 Halswell/Dunbars Road intersection designed to improve safety and traffic flows will be activated at 10am tomorrow morning.
The final road layout under the Viaduct on Chapel St for the NZ Transport Agency's Harbour Link Project is not expected to be completed until early November.
Proposed traffic improvements through Bethlehem Township are now in the final stages of design and are expected to be available for public viewing in early November.
The Holden Commodore ute has become the first Australian-made utility vehicle to receive the top five star crash test rating for occupant protection from the Australasian New Car Assessment Programme (ANCAP).
The completion of the NZ Transport Agency's Piarere to Oak Tree Bends Realignment project between the SH1/SH29 intersection at Piarere and Tirau township was celebrated with an official ribbon cutting earlier today.
Construction on the NZ Transport Agency's SH3 Rugby Road Underpass Realignment at Tariki is making excellent progress, with a significant section of the project already open to traffic.
The NZ Transport Agency advises of the following closures for motorway improvements. Closures start at 8pm and finish at 5am, unless otherwise stated. Work delayed by bad weather will be completed at the next available date, prior to Friday 23 October.
NZTA wishes to advise repair and strengthening work to the Orams Road Bridge over the Southern Motorway [SH1] at Manurewa have been brought forward four days, and will start tonight [Wednesday, 14 October].
The NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) is reminding drivers that changes to New Zealand's road rules - including a ban on the use of hand-held mobile phones while driving - come into force in less than three weeks' time.