NZTD News

A new chapter in New Zealand’s industrial evolution is unfolding in the South Island, with the integration of Australasia’s largest planned industrial development and an inland port expected to create a multibillion-dollar logistics and manufacturing network. The development is forecast to create thousands of jobs and catalyse regional economic growth.

Positioned on 513 hectares of industrial-zoned land in Invercargill, the Awarua Quadrant is a purpose-designed intermodal freight and renewable energy precinct. This vas...

The NZTA are starting a project to tidy up the data in the Transport Service Licence register. About 73% of the 146,000 licences in the register are inactive. Removing these licences from the register will help us focus on active licences and checking non-compliance such as someone using a licence that doesn’t belong to them.

All commercial transport services need a TSL to operate their business whether that’s delivering goods or carrying passengers. If all the vehicles listed on a TSL haven’t been used for at least 2 ...

NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi (NZTA) has announced the outcome of speed limit reviews recently completed on 16 ‘urban connector’ sections of state highway. 

The speed reviews were undertaken on 16 of 38 sections of state highway which were required to automatically reverse to previous higher speed limits under the Setting of Speed Limits Rule 2024, but where NZTA received strong community and stakeholder feedback on a preference to retain the lower speeds.

After considering all of the safety, technical, co...

The NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi (NZTA) Board has given the green light for the Ōtaki to north of Levin (Ō2NL) highway to proceed to construction, marking a significant milestone towards a safer, more resilient and efficient transport connection for the fast-growing Horowhenua and Greater Wellington region. 

At its meeting earlier this afternoon, the NZTA Board confirmed additional funding to ensure that the project will progress, including some features from the originally consented concept design. 

The Government is progressing a bold work programme to increase productivity and efficiency through comprehensively reforming New Zealand’s land transport rules, Transport Minister Chris Bishop says.

“Land transport rules set out how different sectors of the transport industry must operate. They impact all road users - from the suburban mum or dad who has to get a Warrant of Fitness every year no matter how new or well-maintained their car, to the truckies who’ve been loaded up with compliance costs due to rules long s...

Churton Park residents wanting to use State Highway 1 at night will have to take a different route to the highway next month.

Three-weeks of night closures for the Churton Park on-ramp are planned, beginning Sunday, 6 July and ending Friday, 25 July. The on-ramp will be open during the day.

Weather permitting, the southbound on-ramp from Churton Park onto State Highway 1 will be closed Sunday to Thursday nights, between 9 pm and 4 am. 

The closure is needed to allow work crews to fix a slip next to the...