Bridge out: SH50 closure affecting business, travel in rural CHB
'I'm really not impressed that my petrol bill is going to go up'.
'I'm really not impressed that my petrol bill is going to go up'.
Defendants didn’t dispute the Westgate vision, nor that it had not yet been achieved.
PM Chirs Hipkins said it was wrong for Labour to call it a "holiday highway".
Labour's Phil Twyford and Phil Goff wanted to shelve the motorway.
The roads impacted are in Auckland and Tauranga.
On June 1 a small truck rolled after sliding off the road in the rain.
The 18.5km motorway will chop 11 minutes off the the drive north.
The cost of the motorway has increased from $780 million to $1.05 billion.
He drove almost the length of New Zealand without a proper break.
We have to be pragmatic and realistic, and open our doors to overseas funding.
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It's difficult to have confidence in the $7.4b plan given its history, but we must dig in.
The road was closed at 4.45pm this afternoon.
Depending on the weather, work on the site is expected to be completed in August.
He's joined by about 25,000 vehicles a day on the stretch of highway.
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Some of those surveyed are so keen, they'd be open to spontaneous travel on NZ roads.
The council says drivers are already tense enough with the current congestion.
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The problem is believed to be making traffic congestion on SH2 worse than it should be.
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The project includes 3.9km of new road and one of New Zealand's highest highway bridges.
Motorists lodge 33 complaints in 10 days.
The bridge was closed five times on Saturday as winds gusted to 91km/h.
AT expects to return to operating reliable bus services by the end of September.
Waka Kotahi is still waiting for the go-ahead to repair a bridge damaged in March.
The crash has closed the northbound lanes on SH1.