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Ellerslie Train Station To be Shifted
NZTA plans to reconfigure State Highway One to install a fourth lane, city bound direction and the local council board has been advised that this will require shifting...
Old Newmarket Lanes Cut
Workers using diamond wire saws have completed a significant construction milestone on the Newmarket viaduct replacement project on Auckland’s Southern Motorway...
Is Kapiti Coast SH1 Quake Proof?
A Wellington group is today asking whether SH1 needs to be moved in case earthquake-hit residents in the capital can’t escape north - especially in relation...
SH1 Closed for Sign Lift
SH1 around St Marys Bay is going to be closed through Monday nights so that a gantry to support a motorway sign can be lifted into place. SH1 in both directions...
Manukau Delays Brings Change
New traffic control measures will be introduced as NZTA’s answer to criticism about its motorway congestion at Manukau. Southbound lanes on the Southwestern...
NZTA: Manukau Extsn Benefits PT
Auckland’s newest motorway, opened today, is a project that not only benefits road users but will lead to public transport improvements as well. That’s...
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...
Sth Motorway Closes For 36hrs
A section of the Southern Motorway will be closed for up to 36 hours on the first weekend of September (4th, 5th) for necessary work to open the first stage of the...
Puhoi vs Rail Loop
There will be absolutely no trade-off between us getting either the planned Puhoi road development or the proposed CBD rail loop in terms of funding. NZTA’s...
Food For Thought
Whangarei engineer Dean Scanlen has produced some interesting graphs on traffic counts on roads of national significance. Following a recent newspaper article in...
Urgent Work Not “Holiday Highway”
ARC’s transport and urban development committee today stopped short of supporting what Chair Mike Lee once famously dubbed the “holiday highway.” Instead...
Big Crane Open Day
The Big Blue Crane project in Newmarket is having an open day. There’s not much to look at - apart from the massive big blue crane, which is the attraction...
More Motorway Disruptions
The northbound lanes on SH1 between Oteha Valley Road and Silverdale will be closed on Sunday night to complete line marking after recent re-surfacing work. To keep...
Cows Create SH1 Chaos
UPDATE: NZTA has re-opened State Highway One north of Puhoi after the crash involving a truck and trailer carrying cattle. Both lanes of the highway were blocked...
No More Dusty Trips To North
At last, you can now drive the entire 2,022 kilometres of SH1 from the Cape to Bluff in Southland on a sealed road. Today, NZTA completed sealing the final stretch...
Auckland Roads To Avoid In Next Week
Here’s the list of motorways and roads to try to avoid in the next week because of closures for maintenance or other work. The closures are between 8pm and...
Next Week’s Auckland Road Works To Avoid
Here are the main road and motorway closures over the next week around Auckland. Work is done between 8pm and 5am the next day. NORTHERN MOTORWAY (SH1) Northbound...
40 Minute Road Delays At Bombay Starts Tomorrow Night
Big Blue Crane working in Newmarket tonight, causing road closures While work continues tonight involving the big blue crane around Newmarket’s Viaduct, it’s...
Sth Island Rail Crossing Crash
There’s been a serious level crossing crash in the South island this afternoon - but no train was involved. Emergency Services are attending the crash...
Auckland Motorway Closures: Where To Avoid Driving
Driving around the other night (yes, I know in a car…come on, trains don’t run after about 9pm!!) I kept driving smack into road works somewhere. So...
