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This week Minister Chris Bishop, whose portfolios include Infrastructure, welcomed the release of the National Infrastructure Plan and tabled it in Parliament. 

We’ll need to spend some time developing and sharing a meaningful view, but at this stage I think the Plan will encourage more conversation that roads are just one kind of government-funded infrastructure key to New Ze...

 On Tuesday this week, the Minister Chris Bishop tabled the Infrastructure Commission’s much anticipated National Infrastructure Plan in Parliament, or NIP as it is known amongst Wellington types.

The NIP is bringing a much overdue adult conversation to infrastructure. And like adults do, it is telling us we need to pull our socks up and tuck our shirts in.

The spoonful of medicine delivered, without any sugar, was that we can’t afford anywhere near our full shopping list for infrastructure, we need to spend...

Mayor Wayne Brown says the release of the National Infrastructure Plan (the Plan) is another win for the agenda he has been pushing to fix Auckland’s infrastructure woes.

The Mayor has welcomed the Plan, which sets out how planning, funding and delivery of infrastructure can be improved over the next 30 years.

“To be honest, I wouldn’t be surprised if they took some of the ideas out of my Manifesto. I could’ve written that advice myself. This Plan contains some hard truths for our infrastructure sector - and for ...

On the 26th of August 2024 three people were killed when a truck fitted with super single steer tyres that was travelling south on the southern motorway in Auckland experienced a blow out of the front right steer tyre that resulted in the truck crossing through the central median barriers and into the side of a van travelling in the northbound lane.

Coroner AJ Mills has made the following recommendations directed at the trucking industry and tyre service industry at large:

That all operators of heavy motor vehicl...

State Highway 35 has once more connect Tairāwhiti to eastern Bay of Plenty, Transport Minister Chris Bishop says.

It’s been three weeks since heavy rainfall and flooding caused slips above and below the road, closing the road between Pōtaka and Te Araroa isolating the communities in between.

“NZ Transport Agency crews have been working alongside local contractors since the storm at the end of last month to restore access as quickly, and safely, as possible,” Mr Bishop says.

“While there have been multiple s...

An important milestone has been reached with early physical work now underway on the Belfast to Pegasus Motorway and Woodend Bypass (B2P) project.

“This is a Road of National Significance project that local communities and road users have waited a long time for, as congestion has worsened over the years,” says Richard Osborne, system design regional manager for New Zealand Transport Agency Waka Kotahi (NZTA).

“It is exciting to see early physical work now happening that will move the B2P project forward and set i...