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There will be significant changes for drivers on the Northwestern Motorway (State Highway 16) when the NZ Transport Agency opens a section of its new westbound off-ramp at the Lincoln Road interchange next Tuesday (18 June)
The NZ Transport Agency is advising people to delete a widely distributed spam e-mail message which purports to be from an NZTA staff member and tells recipients to visit a bogus website to collect 'prize money'.
The new roundabout that will increase safety at the State Highway 1 Tay Street intersection with Racecourse and Rockdale Roads, on the eastern entrance into Invercargill is now largely completed.
The giant tunnel boring machine (tbm) for the NZ Transport Agency's Waterview tunnel project stretches almost the length of a rugby field, is heavier than five Airbus A380 jumbo jets, and will move enough spoil to fill 320 Olympic-sized swimming pools to create twin traffic tunnels in west Auckland. But the one thing a complex machine of this size is missing is a name.
An oversized tractor and trailer unit will be on display as part of the NZ Transport Agency's (NZTA) Fieldays stand, which will be pushing for safer journeys on rural roads. The stand will give visitors new insights into ways of reducing serious crashes and fatalities on our rural roads.
The NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) says some long awaited fine weather has seen a start made this week on drilling to remove a 2000 tonne section of unstable rock high above the western entrance of the Homer Tunnel.
The NZTA says repairs to stabilise a rock face that closed a section of State Highway 30 between Rotorua and Whakatane last year - after a series of large rock falls - will start next month.
The intersections of Victoria and Willis Streets with Karo Drive (State Highway 1) are some of the busiest and some of the most dangerous intersections in Wellington. Forty crashes have been recorded in the last five years at these two sites.
The highways north of Wellington are likely to be busy over Queen's Birthday Weekend, so the NZ Transport Agency is asking motorists to think about their travel plans before setting out to make sure they're safe and well prepared.
The NZ Transport says a crash has closed two of the three southbound lanes of the Southern Motorway (State Highway 1) near the Mt Wellington interchange in Auckland.
The NZ Transport Agency says all southbound lanes on Auckland's Southern Motorway (State Highway 1) have re-opened after a crash near the Mt Wellington interchange earlier this afternoon.
The NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) says a $1.1M rock stabilisation job that started on the Nevis Bluff on State Highway 6 about midway between Cromwell and Queenstown in March, should be finished in about two weeks.
