Summer season works programme on highways
2 January 2014
Summer is here and so is the annual NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) maintenance programme. Works will be undertaken on Rotorua and Bay of Plenty highway roads throughout the summer season until February.
NZTA's Bay of Plenty highways manager, Brett Gliddon says with the arrival of the warmer drier weather, the conditions are optimal for a range of maintenance works to be undertaken in the region to ensure highways are safe for motorists.
We acknowledge that road works are an inconvenience to drivers and we try to minimise the delays. As holiday traffic starts to build we closedown our work sites over the Christmas period from Friday 20 December and start back up again from Monday 6 January.
He says that there will be posted speed restrictions in place at a number of sites and asks drivers to stick to them.
They are there to protect our work crews. They also help protect windscreens and vehicles, from damage when people drive too fast and flick up loose chips.
Advertisements showing areas where maintenance works will be undertaken have been running in local papers since November, motorists are encouraged to read these or to go to the www.nzta.govt.nz for more information.