A small southern town housing a handful of dedicated road maintenance, rockfall and avalanche specialists has reached the lofty heights of international awards in recent days.
People travelling through the Baypark to Bayfair area are being asked to slow down and take extra care in the lead up to Christmas with road closures and detours in place to allow crews to start applying the final, smooth layer of road surface.
Protest activity is impacting on the state highway network around Auckland and the Waikato this morning. The NZ Transport Agency, Waka Kotahi advises road users to expect delays, especially on State Highway 1 south of Aukland where protest action stopped traffic in both directions at Rangiriri earlier this morning.
The NZ Transport Agency, Waka Kotahi, and Auckland Transport are urging people to plan ahead with the possibility of significant disruptions on key roads across the North Island tomorrow morning.
Temporary detour signage for the State Highway 1B Telephone Road rail crossing closure east of Hamilton will soon be replaced with fixed signs to lower costs while the long-term future of the crossing is decided.
20 November update: Despite some pretty poor weather this week, the Bay Link project team have finished the SH29A works ahead of schedule and the advertised closure will not be required tonight.
Improvements have been made on the Te Ara Tupua - Ngā Ūranga to Pito-One project site to better protect kororā/little blue penguins during the ongoing construction of the project’s new resilient shoreline (revetments and seawalls) and shared path.
Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency has confirmed that State Highway 25A between Kōpū and Hikuai will be re-open to traffic in time for Christmas – a full three months earlier than anticipated.
A week of warm, largely settled, weather has allowed road workers across the Waikato and Bay of Plenty region to make good progress across a number of sites.
Drivers in the top of the South Island region will see multiple chip sealing sites over the coming weeks as the state highway summer maintenance programme gets into high gear.
