State Highway 11 at Lemons Hill has re-opened to one-way traffic after a fresh slip blocked the road overnight — but the re-opening of both lanes has now been delayed until next week.
SH11 was to have fully re-opened this morning after being closed on and off since
a massive slip in February.
Thursday night's slip dumped soil and trees onto the highway but contractors managed to get traffic flowing again, one lane at a time, around 10.30am today.
Stop/go traffic management will continue during the weekend.
Jacqui Hori-Hoult, NZ Transport Agency's Northland manager, said after an inspection of the hillside this morning it was estimated it would take three days to remove trees and loose material from the edge of the original slip.