Current road closures
Under the current Level Four restrictions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, all non-essential road works and event related road closures have been suspended until further notice.
Please note that all non-essential work has been suspended during the Level Four Alert in response to COVID-19. Work will restart when as soon as restrictions are lifted
| Road name | Location | Activity | Expected start date | Estimated completion date |
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Golden Bay |
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Richmond |
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Motueka/Tasman area |
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Moutere/Waimea |
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Tapawera |
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St Arnaud |
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Murchison |
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Wakefield |
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For further information on the locations and type of works taking place, visit the NZTA website.
Following Government advice to cancel any planned events and gatherings, all the current road closure applications have been withdrawn until further notice.
If you would like to object, just write to us. Please include the applicant name and the date of the event and your reasons for objecting.
Road resurfacing work usually happens between October and March. Warmer air and ground temperatures allow the best results.
If you live on a street due to be resealed, our contractor Downer will deliver a notification letter to your address about a week before the work starts.
On the day of the work, parking will be restricted and there will be temporary limited access to properties for pedestrians and vehicles.
This will allow full access for the construction machinery and help the job to run smoothly so it can be completed quickly.
We aim to reduce the inconvenience to you as much as possible, but there will be trucks, rollers and workers on site so expect some noise, dust and other disruption.
You can help keep everyone safe by:
So that you don’t trek bitumen or sticky little stones from the recently resurfaced road, it’s best to avoid walking on any part of the road for several weeks at least. If you can’t avoid it, make sure you check your shoes or take them off before you go inside. You may also want to check them before you get into your car.
To ensure a tidy finished road surface, please avoid any vehicle movements that could damage the recently resurfaced road such as:
Road resurfacing is crucial to the long term maintenance and safety of our District’s roads. Each year about 75 kilometres of road is resurfaced – or 8 per cent of the District’s 975km of sealed roads. It’s a $2.1 million programme of work, of which the New Zealand Transport Agency funds half.
Most of the resurfacing done is chip seal (small stones over emulsified bitumen) because it is a cost effective way to keep water out of the underlying road structure and provides a highly skid-resistant surface. Some resurfacing is done with asphalt (smooth black surfacing), however, because of the cost, among other reasons, this cannot be used everywhere.
We have speed restrictions in place in some high risk areas, and advisory boards reminding people to slow down and drive to the conditions. Any dark/damp section of road should be approached with extreme caution during periods of cold or icy weather.
There is a common misconception that gritting makes an icy road safe. This is not true. Driver behaviour is what can keep you safe.
Gritting only improves the skid resistance of an icy road by 15%. Grit itself can also be a hazard.
In New Zealand we do not use salt on roads for environmental reasons.
High risk areas to watch out for are south-facing shaded patches of road, and inland valleys. Our contractors are out early every morning gritting our roads from 4.00am, and of those that have high volumes we are also gritting throughout the day as well as every evening.
Below is a list of high risk roads that the grit trucks make regular runs on daily in winter, but there may be sites that are higher priority or freeze faster than others. There are other roads that will be gritted as needed and this can change due to weather conditions.
We also use information received via calls from our residents to prioritise areas of concern.
(Excludes Golden Bay and Murchison)
Motueka/Riwaka area
Motueka Valley Highway, including
Motueka River West Bank Road, including
Tapawera/Golden Downs area
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