Close to 500 truck drivers now have a much better idea of how to avoid a roll over crash on a corner thanks to a recent heavy motor vehicle roll over awareness day held on State Highway 1 north of Christchurch recently.
New traffic signals critical to a major NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) $2 million safety upgrade of State Highway 1 through Washdyke, will be directing traffic from tomorrow (1 April).
An open day for the proposed Western Belfast Bypass aims to give local residents an opportunity to talk first hand to NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) about the options being considered for this project.
The NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) is seeking community feedback on three options to increase safety and reduce congestion at the Russley Road/Memorial Ave intersection – an intersection that has over 45,000 vehicles passing through it every day.
Transport Minister Steven Joyce today turned the first sod on the Christchurch Southern Motorway stage one extension, the first step in a major $730 million upgrade to the highway system leading into and around Christchurch.
Less congestion, shorter travelling times and improved road safety are three of the major benefits Canterbury motorists can expect from the biggest road construction programme in the region’s history.
The New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) has let the contract for constructing the first stage of the Christchurch Southern Motorway to a consortium led by Fulton Hogan in partnership with the engineering consultancy BECA.
A half million dollars worth of pavement rehabilitation and sealing work on the southern section of SH67 into Westport starts on Thursday 19 November 2009.
New traffic lights on the SH75 Halswell/Dunbars Road intersection designed to improve safety and traffic flows will be activated at 10am tomorrow morning.
Drivers failing to control their vehicles on corners, or crashing head on with another vehicle, were the major causes of deaths and injuries on West Coast roads in the past five years.
Loss of control, head-on and intersection crashes were the three major causes of death and injuries on roads in the Canterbury region over the last five years.