Source: New Zealand Transport Agency
Crews will be carrying out routine maintenance overnight Sunday on a stretch of State Highway 2 Hawke’s Bay Expressway.
The stretch of road between Omahu Road and Evenden Road will be closed from 8pm and reopening at 5am on Monday, in time for commuter traffic.
Signposted detours will be available.
During the closure, crews will be working on a range of maintenance, including focusing on flexible median barrier repair, signage repair and road surface repairs if and where needed within the Omahu to Evenden stretch.
Sunday’s closure is part of routine monthly maintenance – one Sunday night a month, crews will be focused on a range of maintenance on a different section of the expressway.
At this stage, the following dates have been confirmed for the remainder of the year:
23 March 24 August
27 April 28 September
25 May No October closure at this stage
29 June 2 November
27 July 7 December
While these dates are confirmed, the stretch of expressway closed on any date may change at short notice depending on the maintenance priorities at the time.
The dates are also weather dependent and if postponed, the following Sunday will be used as the contingency date.
Further north, a section of State Highway 50 through Ahuriri, in Napier, will be closed during the day on Sunday for a triathlon event.
There will be other local road closures too.
SH50 will be closed from Napier Port’s eastern gate through Ahuriri Truck Bypass, Bridge Street and Hyderabad Street to the peanut roundabout intersection with Pandora Road.
The road will be closed from 6.30am til 3pm.
