NZTD News

There has been excellent progress on the turnaround bays being constructed as part of improvements to SH1 between Cambridge and Piarere. With the finishing touches now being applied to the turnarounds at Gorton and Tunakawa Roads, installation of flexible median barrier can begin.

Beginning Tuesday this week, median barrier will be installed in sections from south of the Mobil Karāpiro through to Fergusson Gully Road. This work will occur overnight on weeknights, until Friday morning, 12 April (weather permitting). Mot...

PMG Funds has secured a 10-year lease with nationwide logistics firm PTS Logistics for 31 El Prado Drive, a premium industrial facility in Milson, Palmerston North.

The property, which is part of PMG Funds’ flagship diversified Pacific Property Fund Limited (PPF), previously served as EziBuy’s North Island distribution centre. This Long-term lease of key industrial property underscores nationwide strength of sector outside of main centres

With over 23,000 square metres of customisable space, a 100% NBS seismic ra...

Cambridge/Moffat roads: Construction work to complete the new Cambridge Road Overbridge, between Bethlehem and Tauriko continues. Until early April 2024, there is a full closure of a section of Moffat Road between Tauranga Adventist School and Cambridge Road (East). This is disruptive, there are local alternative routes for light vehicles, and all heavy vehicles can use SH29 Takitimu Drive Toll Road. 

SH2 Old Te Puke Road to Otamarakau: From early April, safety improvements will be undertaken along SH2. This will ...

State Highway 1 across the Brynderwyns will be open for Easter weekend, with work currently underway to ensure the resilience of this critical route being paused for Easter Weekend to allow holiday makers to travel north, Transport Minister Simeon Brown says. 

“I visited the Brynderwyn Hills construction site, where workers are preparing the route for a temporary reopening from this Thursday. Weather events last year caused severe under and over-slips on State Highway 1 at the Bryderwyn Hills and NZTA have underta...

Five weeks of rock stabilisation work near Queenstown’s Bungy Bridge gets underway early in April, says NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi (NZTA).

The highway will be down to a single lane, weekdays only, from Tuesday, 2 April at 9 am through to Tuesday, 7 May. Delays could be up to ten minutes at a time says Peter Standring, Maintenance Contract Manager for NZTA in Central Otago. 

“We are not anticipating lengthy delays at this site, but in order to safely clear any rock off the highway after scaling, we need ...

The new government’s push for change continues at pace and there has been a lot of discussion about the Fast Track Approvals Bill. The bill is intended to ultimately deliver cheaper and quicker approvals (consents and permits) than those currently delivered under the Resource Management Act (RMA) 1991.

This is important to us because road development needs consenting under the RMA.

Most concerns raised with us have come from people and organisations that aren’t our members. They oppose the bill and want our view ...