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The NZ Transport Agency is advising motorists to allow extra time for journeys south of Kaikoura as work gets underway today to maintain and improve this section of SH1 south of Kaikoura.
With the holidays just around the corner and New Zealand already well into the season of Christmas parties, barbecues and other well-earned celebrations, the NZ Transport Agency is urging drivers to make the right choices to keep safe on the road.
The NZ Transport Agency and Canterbury Police are reminding Banks Peninsula rural property owners of their responsibility to keep animals safely fenced after a significant rise in reports of wandering stock over the last few weeks.
Queenstown people used to detouring at Frankton onto Glenda Drive and the Eastern Access Road off State Highway 6 are in for a change from Wednesday, 16 December.
Summer is the time the NZ Transport Agency undertakes most of its road works, to keep state highways and bridges well maintained and safe for drivers and all road users.
Minister of Transport Hon Simon Bridges turned the first sod and planted a kowhai tree at Queenstown’s Kawarau Falls new bridge site this morning, celebrating the start of the $22 million project. It is expected to be completed in the third quarter of 2017.
NZ Transport Agency road crews have been working hard since first light to keep the state highways open and safe after a night of severe winds and heavy rain on the West Coast of the South Island. Crews are continuing to patrol state highways through the day
Important Otago highway project opened on hot Dunedin day
Five years of safety and highway improvement work costing $45 million on Dunedin’s main State Highway south of the city was celebrated today (25 November) by Minister of Transport Hon Simon Bridges and parties involved in the project.
The next stage of the NZ Transport Agency’s Mingha Bluff to Rough Creek realignment project is about to begin, with drivers likely to have short delays over a one-lane stretch for several months.
Drivers using State Highway 1 between Arowhenua and Seadown (between Temuka and Timaru) should build in a little extra time from this week, 17 November to 11 December and again early in the New Year, after the holiday period.
Major repairs on the HouHou bridge, north of Hokitika, will begin next week, 16 November and take until Monday, 21 December. Scaffolding may be erected by the end of this week (ie by 13 November) and preliminary work can start next week.
The NZ Transport Agency will start work on Monday, 16 November, repairing running boards on the Rakaia Gorge Bridge, inspecting the bridge’s steel truss support from the bridge deck and installing new kerbs on the bridge.
