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Police have urged motorists heading over the Auckland Harbour bridge to be patient with roadworks causing traffic delays.
Two southbound lanes will be closed for road resurfacing from Christmas Eve to the third of January.
Northbound traffic is backed up from the Harbour Bridge back past the North Western motorway on-ramp.
Police have been inundated with calls about the delays but say so far there have been no accidents.
Further north, traffic is also building up at the Northern end of Orewa.
North of Wellington, traffic is heavy northbound between Plimmerton and Pukerua Bay.
- NEWSTALK ZB
