Traffic Notice 12 August - 18 August: Southern Corridor Improvements
Welcome to the
traffic notice for the week of 12
August - 18 August for the
Southern Corridor Improvements Project
Traffic notices provide a brief overview of likely
traffic disruptions for the following week. Full closures are also advertised
in the Weekend Herald. Traffic notices are complemented by monthly construction
updates and quarterly newsletters.
ALREADY IN PLACE
- Narrowed lanes and 80 km/h
speed limit northbound
between the Pahurehure Inlet and Hill Road.
- Narrowed lanes and 80 km/h
speed limit southbound
between Hill Road and the Pahurehure Inlet.
TRAFFIC NEXT WEEK
Northbound:
- Sunday
14 August to Thursday 18 August - Night closure of the full northbound
motorway between the Papakura Interchange and the Takanini Interchange.
This includes closure of the Beach Road northbound on-ramp and loop.
- Sunday
14 August to Thursday 18 August - Night closure of two lanes northbound
on the motorway between the Takanini Interchange and Hill Road.
Southbound:
- Sunday
14 August - Night closure of a single lane southbound
on the motorway between Hill Road and the Takanini Interchange.
- Monday 15 August -
Night closure of the full southbound motorway
between the Manukau Interchange through to the Takanini Interchange. This
includes closure of the Redoubt Road on-ramp, Lambie Drive eastbound
on-ramp, and the SH20-1 Link.
- Tuesday 16 August to Thursday 18 August - Night closure of a single lane southbound
on the motorway between Hill Road and the Takanini Interchange.
UPCOMING WORKS (dates may be subject to change)
- Sunday 21 August to Monday 22
August -
Night closure of the full southbound motorway
between the Manukau Interchange through to the Takanini Interchange. This
includes closure of the Redoubt Road on-ramp, Lambie Drive eastbound
on-ramp, and the SH20-1 Link.
- Tuesday 23 August to Wednesday
24 August -
Night closure of the full northbound motorway
between the Takanini Interchange through to Hill Road. This includes
closure of the Takanini on-ramp (Great South Road).
- Thursday 25 August - Night closure of a single lane
southbound on the motorway from the
Takanini Interchange to Beach Road. This will include closure of the
Takanini on-ramp (Great South Road).
Night work on the
motorway next week involves the laying of asphalt, line marking, sheet piling,
guard rail installation, and general road maintenance. Line marking and
asphalting is highly weather dependent. If it rains and ground conditions are
too wet, work will be postponed until the next available dry night.
Work during the night will allow
our crews to operate equipment safely while adjacent to the existing traffic
lanes. Work in the shoulder and median work zones will continue during the
daytime next week, but this will not affect traffic movements.
Night closures are typically from
9pm at night to 5am in the morning. Detours will
be in place to take motorists along local roads, leading back to the next
motorway interchange. All detours will be clearly signposted, and maps of the
typical routes can be found on our website at: http://www.nzta.govt.nz/projects/southern-corridor-improvements/traffic-notices/. Please allow
extra time for your journey at night.
It is important that motorists keep
to the 80 km/h speed limit past our work areas. There will be
ongoing truck and project vehicle movements accessing the shoulder and median
work sites. Keeping both motorists and our team members safe as possible is
imperative and we need everyone's help to do this.
As always, we will be doing our
best to minimise effects of these works on motorists as much as we can.
We thank you for your patience as
we work to improve journey reliability and safety along the Southern Corridor.
You can read more background
information and find out more about the project through our website, www.nzta.govt.nz/auckland-southern-corridor.
If you have any questions or queries, please
contact our team on free phone 0508 NZTA SCI (0508 698 2724) or email us at southerncorridor@nzta.govt.nz.
Also feel free to visit us at the Project Drop-In Centre located at 8 Great
South Road, Takanini.
