Roadworks for Tauranga and Western Bay this week

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Asphalt resurfacing works and other maintenance activities will continue on State Highway 2 and State Highway 29A around the Western Bay of Plenty and Tauranga City districts this week.

These works are part of the Waka Kotahi road maintenance programme to repair and reseal state highways across the Bay of Plenty to ensure the safety and resilience of the transport network.

Asphalt resurfacing:

Sunday December 12

State Highway 2 Te Puna - works in both directions between Clarke Road and Te Puna Road. Stop/Go traffic management with a 30km per hour temporary speed limit will be in place during the works, which will be completed between 8pm and 5am, finishing Monday morning.

Monday December 13

State Highway 2 Hewletts Road - works in eastbound direction only, between Waimarie Street and Maru Street. A temporary speed limit of 50km per hour will be in place, with two lanes open for traffic during working hours. The works will be completed between 8pm and 5am, finishing Tuesday morning.

Tuesday December 14

State Highway 2 Hewletts Road - works in westbound direction only between Tasman Quay and the Tauranga Harbour Bridge. A temporary speed limit of 50km per hour will be in place during the works, with one lane open for traffic. The works will be completed between 8pm and 5am, finishing Wednesday morning.

Thursday December 16

State Highway 29A Poike Roundabout - works in the northbound and southbound lanes on the roundabout approaches. A temporary speed limit of 30km per hour will be in place during the works, with a lane open in each direction for traffic. The works will be completed between 8pm and 5am, finishing Friday morning.

Other works:

Sunday December 12 to Wednesday December 15

State Highway 2 Tauranga Harbour Bridge – work crews will be undertaking repairs to bridge rails that were damaged during an event last weekend. A temporary speed limit of 30km per hour will be in place during the works, with one lane open for traffic during working hours, between 8pm and 5am. Both lanes will be available between 5am and 8pm.

Wednesday December 15

State Highway 2 Takitimu Drive – work crews will be locating services on both sides of the road from the Koromiko Street off-ramp to the Waihi Road on-ramp on the night of December 15, between 7am and 6am. Mobile lane closures will be in place, with tail pilots and shadow vehicles to guide traffic into the correct lane.

In the event of bad weather or other unforeseen circumstances, work may be postponed. Visit the Waka Kotahi Journey Planner (journeys.nzta.govt.nz) website for up to date information on the road closure, detours, traffic, road works and delays.

Waka Kotahi thanks motorists for their patience.

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3 comments

City planning at its best

Posted on 12-12-2021 14:13 | By The Sage

Why is it that they decide to do all these roadworks in the two weeks leading up to Christmas? Same thing happens every year.


LOL, cause it's raining and Xmas

Posted on 13-12-2021 19:31 | By Get our roads

@city planning at it's best, simple answer, because they are idiots. Never cease to amaze all these roading planners and their idiotic planning, it's been years and continuous roadworks leading up to and during Xmas holidays, they can always use Covid as an excuse although, Cameron Road is just as bad but with idiots contracted by Council doing their work, still more workers standing around doing nothing, especially not working. We should just let the roads go to rack and ruin, that will keep all these flash cars off the road cause they will get their paint work damaged, love it, I would so love to ride my horse to work LOL.


@ other posters

Posted on 15-12-2021 12:31 | By morepork

Let's be fair; some of this work can only be done when the weather is good. That is technically, a 4 month window, although we do much better than that in practice. If they did NO work, for say, 6 weeks over the holidays, they would lose HALF of their window. And then people would be complaining here and elsewhere about the shocking state of the roads...


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