Thursday, 24 April 2014, 2:46 pm Press Release: NZTA
Crash repairs on Auckland’s Northwestern Motorway
There may be short delays for city-bound traffic on
the Northwestern Motorway (State Highway 16) tonight as the
NZ Transport Agency repairs damage to safety equipment near
the Carrington Road overbridge at Point Chevalier
Repairs are required to a crash cushion that was hit by
a car this morning, injuring the car’s driver. The crash
closed a section of the motorway’s city-bound lanes during
the morning peak and traffic was diverted on to local roads.
The motorway will remain open tonight but with
reduced lanes in the vicinity of the overbridge from 11pm.
“We expect the repairs to take about three hours
and they will be completed in time for people to get to
ANZAC Day dawn services tomorrow,” says the Transport
Agency’s acting State Highway Manager Steve Mutton.
The yellow crash cushion has been in position since last
October as part of the temporary traffic barriers protecting
drivers passing the Waterview Connection works.
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