The NZ Transport Agency says it has taken another significant step towards the completion of Auckland’s Western Ring Route by naming a preferred tenderer to upgrade the Te Atatu Interchange on State Highway 16 (Northwestern Motorway).
The Waikato Expressway, Road of National Significance, reached a major milestone with the NZ Transport Agency lodging last week applications for resource consents and alterations to the designation for the Hamilton Section.
The NZ Transport Agency advises road users extensive maintenance work is underway or planned at various locations on the state highway network in Northland.
The NZ Transport Agency is reminding drivers that changes to child restraint laws come in to force on November 1, and the agency is urging parents and caregivers to plan ahead to ensure that they can comply with the new rules and keep their small passengers safe.
The new Lyttelton Tunnel Control Building is beginning to take shape, with the foundations laid and construction of the basement walls nearing completion.
Heavy rain continuing to fall in Westland is bringing more rock and gravel down on to State Highway 6, between Haast and Makarora, keeping the highway closed today.
The NZ Transport Agency’s State Highway 1 Atiamuri Bridge project between Tokoroa and Taupo has been awarded one of the Waikato Regional Council’s Site of the Year for Innovative Practice – Erosion and Sediment Control award.
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, 11 October.
Work begins today (3 October) driving the second of the piles for the larger of the two new Waitaki Bridges being built on State Highway 82 between Kurow and Hakataramea.
Summer’s on its way - and so is the reopening of both lanes at State Highway 60 (SH60) at Birds Hill in Golden Bay. With better, more reliable weather on the horizon, the NZ Transport Agency is gearing up to get this road back to two lanes in time for the summer season.
Heavy rain falling in Westland is again bringing rock and gravel down on to State Highway 6 at Diana Falls, closing the highway to all traffic from Haast to Makarora.
Operation Waltz - a night time vehicle check recently undertaken jointly by NZ Transport Agency and the Rotorua Road Police Unit of NZ Police found less than fancy warrant of fitness (WOF) compliance in some of the 552 vehicles inspected.