Today Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in Gisborne with two community providers to trial an alternate way of delivering driver licence testing services in the region.
Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency advises Saddle Road between Ashhurst and Woodville will be closed during non-peak times for five days from Monday 27 June.
Journeys for people traveling on State Highway 3 Napier Road between Palmerston North and Ashhurst will soon be safer, with Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency announcing new safer permanent speed limits.
Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency advises the Mangatewainui Bridge on State Highway 2 south of Norsewood is down to one lane due to cracking on the bridge deck.
Work on a 33-metre-long and between and 8- and 14-metre-high retaining wall to repair an underslip on the Forgotten World Highway (State Highway 43), 23km southwest of Taumarunui, will begin this week.
State Highway 4 remains open to one lane under traffic light control for light traffic only between the intersections with State Highway 43 and Okahukura Bridge Road, north of Taumarunui, after flooding of a culvert caused a large hole to form on the side of the road yesterday.
UPDATE, 4.55PM FRIDAY 3 JUNE: Contractors are hoping to reopen the road to a single lane under traffic light control later tonight, for light vehicles only. Once the road reopens, motorists are asked to be patient, take care and adhere to all traffic management on their journeys through the area.
Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency is constructing a slow vehicle bay 2km south of Raupunga, on the southern lane of a steep and winding section of State Highway 2.
Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency says recent road rebuilding work on State Highway 2 at Bay View in Napier does not meet the expectations it has for work on its state highways and will need to be rectified.