A reminder that next week roading crews will be onsite at Manawatū Bridge (Whirokino) for a range of maintenance work. The work will begin on Monday 16 September and take place between 9am and 2.30pm daily. 

To enable these works to take place, a one-way closure will be in place, and southbound traffic will be detoured during the work hours.  The state highway will remain open for northbound traffic at all times. 

During this closure, numerous sections of damaged flexible median barrier will be repaired across the 5 day period, in addition to a range of maintenance work on the bridge, including line marking. 

NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi wants to thank people travelling across the bridge for their understanding during this work. A one-way closure allows crews to also complete a range of maintenance work as efficiently as possible, minimising ongoing disruption to motorists. 

This maintenance work will be taking place at the same time as some road widening work near Oturoa Road that’s part of the SH1 Levin to Foxton safety improvement project and stop/go traffic management will be in place.

Road widening planned for stretch of SH1 Levin to Foxton

Southbound detour - The detour for southbound traffic will be from Foxton, with motorists detoured left onto Union Street and into Foxton Shannon Road, to State Highway 57 in Shannon, to Queen Street East, and back to State Highway 1 in Levin. Detour signage will be in place.

While northbound traffic will remain on the highway, a reduced speeds limit will be in place.