Work has resumed on state highway improvements shut down when the Covid-19 lockdown was imposed five weeks ago.
It focuses on State Highway 2 between Waipukurau and Hastings and lengths of highway past Hawke's Bay Airport and Bay View.
NZ Transport Agency senior project manager Rob Partridge said the initial focus south of Hastings would be completing a wooden retaining wall south of Waipawa, including wire rope barriers and improving safety at the SH2 intersections with Tapairu Rd.
There is also road widening, new marking and tree planting at Pakipaki.
The work near the Hawke's Bay Airport focuses first on the second-coat sealing between the airport and Bay View, and a median barrier south of the now-closed highway entrance to the airport towards the Watchman Rd roundabout, now the gateway to the new entrance.