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GPS Tilted To Highway Funding
The Government Policy Statement on Land Transport Funding was released today by Transport Minister Steven Joyce and predictably is weighted towards highway development...
Old Southbound Viaduct Removed
More road disruption ahead to enable the removal and lowering of segments of the old southbound viaduct directly over Broadway. Newmarket’s Broadway will be...
Manukau Motorway Changes Sunday
Big changes for motorists from Sunday when the westbound lanes of the new SH20-1 Manukau Extension motorway open in Manukau.. The new motorway connects SH20)and...
Vic Park Tunnel Excavation Starts
The massive task of removing 160,000 cubic metres of rock and earth to form the trench for the Victoria Park Tunnel is underway – enough to fill a hole eight stories...
Major Survey Into Motorway Pollution
NIWA scientists working with Auckland and Canterbury University are researching how dangerous Auckland’s motorway pollution is. Using a late model Ford Falcon...
Guide To Weekend Roads,Trains
NZTA’s closure of the SH1 southbound over the Newmarket Viaduct from 5pm Saturday to 5am on Monday morning is the biggest road closure Auckland’s ever...
Chaos Starts Monday
Auckland’s inner city traffic stress starts on Monday and it will be fascinating to see how motorists cope. The Wellington Street motorway on-ramp closes then...
What Does English Mean?
The NZ Council for Infrastructure Development conference opened today - and Infrastructure minister Bill English talked up the government’s willingness...
19 Year Old Clocked Today At 200k
Officers of an Auckland Motorway Patrol Unit were left speechless early this morning when a BMW car passed by their stationary position on the Northern Motorway...
Next Week’s Motorway Closures
Here are next week’s closures for motorway improvements. Closures start at 8pm and finish at 5am, unless otherwise stated. Work delayed by bad weather...
Video: Crane Update (Repost)
The Newmarket crane project is going faster than expected on the southern motorway. The structural form of the new southbound viaduct is now almost complete, and...
Wellington’s Transmission Gully Go Ahead
A major roading announcement for Wellington this morning. After decades of debate, Wellington will get its long-awaited Transmission Gully route as part of a $2.2...
Big Night For New Mangere Bridge (Up Close Photos)
Tonight, two massive cranes will work in unison to lift 245 tonnes of land span into position at the northern end of the new Mangere bridge. As detailed earlier,...
$430m Victoria Park Motorway Tunnel Project Starts
Work on the 440-metre long motorway tunnel under Victoria Park - a $430m project - starts on Monday. On Monday, the work will be on widening the southern...
Man accused of driving around barrier arms, son dead
Regular readers will know I’m always concerned about the bad driving behaviour I see around railway crossings where people try to beat the barrier arms or...
Victoria Park tunnel gets a push
The process has begun for the new three-lane 470m deep northbound tunnel below Victoria Park and the concrete motorway viaduct itself with ads for contractors. That’s...
