Bus and Coach Association Notifications

Traffic Notice 10 - 16 March: Southern Corridor Improvements

Friday, 10 March 2017

Welcome to the traffic notice for the week of 10-16 March for the

Southern Corridor Improvements Project

UPDATE:

Due to remedial works in the northbound shoulder and weather delays, there has been a further adjustment to the timeline for the northbound lane changes between the Papakura Interchange and Pahurehure Inlet. The work will now take place on the nights of Monday 13 March to Wednesday 15 March from 9pm-5am. Lanes will be narrowed and a reduced speed limit of 80kph will be in effect from the morning of Thursday 16 March for approximately one year.

Please do not hesitate to contact us should you have any questions or queries.

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 Orams Road and the Papakura Interchange.

TRAFFIC NEXT WEEK

Northbound

• Sunday 12 March - Tuesday 14 March - Night Closure on two lanes northbound from the Takanini Interchange to Hill Road.
• Monday 13 March - Wednesday 15 March - Night closure of the full northbound motorway between the Papakura Interchange through to the Takanini Interchange. This includes closure of the northbound Papakura on-ramps.

Southbound 

• Sunday 12 March - Night closure of a single lane southbound from Hill Road to the Takanini Interchange.
• Sunday 12 March - Night closure of the full southbound motorway from the Takanini Interchange to Papkura Interchange. This includes closure of the on-ramp at Takanini.
• Monday 13 March - Thursday 16 March - Night closure of a single southbound lane on the motorway from Takanini Interchange to Papakura Interchange.
• Monday 13 March - Wednesday 15 March - Night closure of the southbound off-ramp at Takanini (Great South Road).

UPCOMING WORKS (dates may be subject to change)

• Sunday 19 March - Night closure of the full northbound motorway between the Takanini Interchange to Hill Road. This includes closure of the northbound on-ramp at Takanini (Great South Road). 
• Sunday 19 March - Thursday 23 March - 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 SH20-1 Link.
• Sunday 19 March - Thursday 23 March - Night closure of a single lane southbound from the Takanini Interchange to the Papakura Interchange
• Monday 20 March - Thursday 23 March - Night closure of two lanes northbound from the Takanini interchange to Hill Road.
• Monday 20 March - Tuesday 21 March - Night closure of the full northbound motorway between the Papakura Interchange through to the Takanini Interchange. This includes closure of the northbound Papakura on-ramps.

Night work on the motorway next week involves concrete pour to create the formwork at Hill Road Bridge. Moving barriers, line marking and small pavement works near the Pahurehure Inlet. Laying preliminary road surfacing along Conifer Grove. As well as general surveying and measurement works. If it rains or 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.

\With the lanes narrowed, there is less time to react to other vehicles and 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.