It has been a busy week for Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency contractors, with crews working hard to repair the damage caused by severe weather events over the past two weekends.
Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency says the builder of Transmission Gully CPB HEB is continuing to make good progress fixing construction defects and pavement issues required for the Transmission Gully motorway to open.
Strengthening work on Waiwawa River Bridge (SH25) in Coroglen in the Coromandel is set to get underway on Monday 28 February with short overnight closures while scaffolding is erected.
People make mistakes, but those mistakes shouldn’t cost lives. That’s why Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency is proposing a range of safety improvements and asking people what they think of the current speed limit on State Highway 3 Napier Road.
Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency and Gisborne District Council are working together to improve Gisborne’s roads by undertaking extensive nightworks across the roading network between March and May 2022.
Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency says recent on-site investigations by Waka Kotahi roading experts shows significant progress has been made by the builder, CPB HEB, towards fixing construction defects and pavement issues required for the Transmission Gully motorway to open.
A new, safer 80km/h speed limit for the 76km winding section of State Highway 5 between Rangitaiki and Esk Valley will come into effect this Friday (18 February).
State Highway 2 (SH2) between Waihī and Ōmokoroa is set to become safer for everyone with the installation of flexible median barriers and an upgrade to an additional six intersections between Tetley Road and Esdaile Road.
The heavy rain has had the final hand on some key routes remaining open or closed overnight on the West Coast and Top of the South this afternoon, says Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency.
Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency highway teams have been assessing a number of slips north of Haast township and between the two glacier towns, Franz Josef and Fox, on SH6, today.
Despite heavy rain over South Westland all day, state highways on the West Coast have remained open with only minor slips and small rockfalls which were easily cleared, says Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency.
Work to reopen State Highway 3 to two lanes at the site of the Uruti Valley slip, north of Urenui, gets underway tomorrow and is expected to be complete by Saturday.