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The NZ Transport Agency is advising road users to continue to drive with care, and to plan ahead for journeys today and over the weekend as severe weather continues to affect South Island roads.
The NZ Transport Agency is advising road users that SH73 from Arthurs Pass to Jacksons is unlikely to open today. There is an Alternate Route in place via Lewis Pass SH7, please add around an hour and a half to your journey. Goat Creek Bridge is still intact, the western approach embankment has been washed away.
The NZ Transport is advising drivers that SH6 from Hokitika to Haast and SH73 Arthurs Pass between Arthurs pass township and Jackson are likely to remain closed overnight due to widespread surface flooding and slips.
Installation of innovative electronic speed signs will begin next week at the intersection of State Highway 6 (the Luggate-Cromwell Rd) and State Highway 8A.
The NZ Transport has extended the closure of SH6 from Woodstock Rimu Road near Hokitika in the north, to south of Fox Glacier, due to further slips on the Fox Hills between Franz Josef and Fox Glacier, and extensive flooding across 5km of SH6 at Evans Straight north of the Whanganui River.
The NZ Transport Agency has closed SH6 between Harihari (near Robertson Rd just North of Harihari) and Franz Josef in South Westland. The closure is being manned by contractors at both points.
The NZ Transport Agency, KiwiRail and the North Canterbury Transport Infrastructure Recovery alliance (NCTIR) have been recognised on the global stage, with the Kaikōura earthquake recovery work winning the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) People’s Choice Award.
One of the first steps toward designing transport networks around the new Dunedin Hospital that will be safe, accessible and offer travel choices, is underway, with key local organisations providing their views as part of a two-day workshop this week.
The NZ Transport Agency is advising people to expect a delay of half an hour on Thursday this week due to scheduled rock blasting work at the Nevis Bluff on State Highway 6. The bluff is midway between Cromwell and Queenstown.
A landmark eucalyptus tree on Marlborough’s State Highway 1, near Spring Creek, will be removed in November, for safety reasons, after it was found to be deteriorating at a fast rate.
Safety barriers down the middle of the road to stop head-on crashes, rumble strips to give drivers a wake-up call, and intersection improvements are among possible changes to a high-risk stretch of State Highway 1 between the Selwyn River and Ashburton in Mid-Canterbury.
People who use the road between Cromwell and Queenstown, State Highway 6, may spot rock debris from abseil scaling at the Nevis Bluff from Monday, 29 October.
The NZ Transport Agency advises drivers to allow extra time for their journeys along the Wairau Valley Highway, SH63, in Tasman District, from next week into early December.
People are being encouraged to provide feedback on a proposal to install no stopping lines and bus stops on Queenstown’s Stanley Street (part of State Highway 6A) between Coronation Drive and Shotover Street.
