Summer is here and so is the annual NZ Transport Agency maintenance programme. Works will be undertaken on Bay of Plenty highway roads throughout the summer season until February.
With summer in full swing and Christmas just around the corner, the NZ Transport Agency says now’s a good time for Wellington holidaymakers to think about ways to stay safe and plan their journeys.
The NZ Transport Agency says State Highway 25 (SH25) at the southern entrance to Whangamata will have a temporary speed restriction of 70 km/h over the summer holiday period.
The Transport Agency announced its preferred option for the Rotorua Eastern Arterial (REA) in April this year. Strong positive and negative feedback from local community groups was received and in light of the feedback the Transport Agency, and the council, are working alongside those groups to better understand the impacts and concerns.
The Golden Bay community can once again enjoy the benefits of two lanes of State Highway 60 to get around more easily over summer and bring tourists into their region these holidays.
The second section of the Waikato Expressway opened to traffic on Monday 16 December 2013, following a ceremony and community open day held on Saturday 14 December.
The holidays are around the corner, but we know that the news doesn’t take a day off, and the NZ Transport Agency’s media team will be on call to help during the 2013/14 Christmas/New Year break.
Drivers can enjoy safer, easier journeys on State Highway 2 this summer holiday season, with the NZ Transport Agency finishing the first of nine new passing opportunities between Napier and Gisborne.
Construction of an NZ Transport Agency project to ease congestion at a significant bottleneck on Auckland’s Northern Motorway (State Highway 1) will start next month.
Waitomo will have a new and much safer intersection in 2014 as the NZ Transport Agency has announced its preferred option for the SH3/37 intersection upgrade.
Motorists are being urged to allow extra time for their journeys this summer and to take care on Canterbury roads with a number of maintenance projects underway throughout the region.