Improvements are being made to the system that helps prevent bridge strikes on Auckland’s motorway network and the current system won’t be operating during the upgrade.
From Sunday, 20 March, the Russley Road/ Memorial Avenue roundabout, the main access to Christchurch’s International Airport is undergoing a major change which may cause some delays.
Driving access to Hanmer Springs, State Highway 7A, has been restored with manual traffic management (Stop/ Go) through the Tekoa Range currently, the site of a fire earlier today.
Work on the Southern Corridor Improvements project, which is creating extra lanes to ease bottlenecks on SH1 Auckland, is now well underway and motorists will begin to see changes that may affect their journey from next week.
As part of the Visiting Drivers Project, 1500 drivers will be surveyed this week on three key routes in the project’s three regions – the West Coast, Southland and Otago.
Resurfacing the northbound lanes of State Highway 1 on Wellington’s urban motorway gets underway tonight as the NZ Transport Agency’s smart motorway project enters its final phase.
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 March 2016. Please note this Traffic Bulletin is updated every Friday.
Motorists are reminded to leave extra time when travelling around the Bay of Plenty and Waikato over the coming months as work on major projects and roadworks ramps up.
The NZ Transport Agency will be giving visitors to Northland’s Field Days this week an opportunity to find out what driving skills they need to brush up on.
The NZ Transport Agency advises motorists that State Highway 35 on the East Cape is CLOSED at Ruakokore as trees have come down and are blocking both lanes of the road.