The NZ Transport Agency advises of the following closures for motorway improvements. Closures start at 9pm and finish at 5am, unless otherwise stated. Work delayed by bad weather will be completed at the next available date, prior to Friday, 31 March 2017. Please note this Traffic Bulletin is updated every Friday.
Testing and commissioning of the complex systems that will ensure the safe operation of the Waterview Tunnel are continuing and will not be completed in time for an April opening, the NZ Transport Agency has announced.
Motorists travelling south on State Highway 1 between Manukau and Takanini should plan ahead and allow extra time for their journey as progress continues on the Southern Corridor Improvements project.
From 12 April this year new speed limits will apply on Kāpiti roads that have been created or reconfigured as part of the Mackays to Peka Peka Expressway project.
Urgent repairs to the Ruffe Creek Bridge, north of Springs Junction, State Highway 65, will add a 45 minute detour for drivers using the Lewis Pass/ Murchison route from this Sunday night.
The NZ Transport Agency is inviting local communities to find out more about a project to find ways to help improve road safety, reduce crashes and ease congestion on State Highway 3 between Waitara and Bell Block.
The NZ Transport Agency says work on the West Coast’s new Taramakau Bridge project, on State Highway 6 between Greymouth and Kumara Junction, is progressing well.
The Transport Agency is advising motorists to allow extra time for their journey on SH29 Takitimu Drive Toll Road in Tauranga next week due to important maintenance work.
The NZ Transport Agency last year advised that changes to speed limits were going in place on the new Picton to Christchurch alternate highway, in the aftermath of the Kaikoura earthquake.
The NZ Transport Agency says State Highway 1 Mangamuka Gorge will be closed later this week due while road crews resurface sections of the road through the Gorge.
The NZ Transport Agency is advising that road works that were planned for the New Plymouth side of State Highway 3 leading to Mount Messenger on Tuesday 21 March have had to be postponed due to a forecast of more rain.