NZTD News

Summer is on the way and so too is annual chipsealing work for State Highway 60 Tākaka Hill. 

Every year before the Christmas and New Year holidays, contractors carry out resurfacing work on the route to ensure it is in tip-top shape for holiday traffic.  

Rob Service, Area Manager Nelson/Tasman, says this year is no different with three daytime closures planned for late November.

“This year’s programme will have less impact than last year’s. Last year we had flood repairs and resilience works und...

NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi is progressing Mill Road Stage 1 Road of National Significance (RoNS) through the Fast-track Approvals Act process, with the project’s substantive application lodged last month.

National Manager Planning and Development, Jess Andrew says the lodgement is an important step in the project’s consenting phase.

“Lodging the substantive application Mill Road Stage 1 under the Fast-track Approvals Act is an important milestone,” Ms Andrew says. “It helps ensure the project is well positio...

New Zealand First will continue to deliver the goods for rail by maintaining and improving the national network, removing bottlenecks, strengthening regional connections, and putting existing rail assets to better use, Leader Winston Peters announced today.

“New Zealand First has always backed rail, and unlike the other parties that sold it off, ran it down, or talked about it without delivering, we have the track record to prove it,” Mr Peters says.

“We have spent years rebuilding the foundations, and our ten-po...

Delivery Partners operating within NZ Post’s last mile network continue to make the shift to EVs, surpassing the milestone of 100 fully electric vehicles on the road. The latest wave of EV purchases across the country pushed the network’s numbers over the line to a new total of 115 EVs delivering in our communities. 

As the EV market for commercial vehicles matures, more and more Delivery Partners are finding that the technology and the numbers stack up for them. The EVs already on the road are proving their value...

NZTA will soon start using a new, smaller mobile safety camera trailer to detect speeding.  

These smaller trailers are joining their fleet of camera-equipped SUVs and our existing trailers (which are larger).  

We've started testing the new trailer in Christchurch (we're not issuing fines during testing), and then we’ll start operating it in Otago and Southland. The new trailers are smaller which means they can be parked up roadside in more places than the existing trailers. Otherwise, there’s no chang...

The state highway summer maintenance programme is stepping up in the Hutt Valley, with resurfacing planned at multiple locations along State Highway 2 over the coming weeks. 

Roxanne Hilliard, Wellington Alliance Manager, says around 13.8 lane kilometres* of State Highway 2 will be resurfaced from Ngauranga to Maoribank. 

“We will have road crews working at multiple locations. These include Ngauranga to Petone, near Kennedy Good Bridge, and at Maoribank in Upper Hutt.”  

“We will be starting ...