The old narrow concrete bridges over the Manawatu River and surrounding floodplain just south of Foxton on SH1 are both being replaced at a cost of $75 million. Richard Silcock makes a site visit.
The Manawatu River rises in the nearby Ruahine Range and flows 180-kilometres westward through the Manawatu Gorge and out across the Manawatu...
Northland is experiencing its largest ever programme of work on its State Highways. Among the numerous projects the Transport Agency has underway in the region, a number of existing single lane bridges are currently being replaced. By Mary Searle Bell.
IN MATAKOHE, two new bridges are being built and 2.5km of road realigned. The...
Fergus Gammie, chief executive of the NZTA, spoke to delegates at the 2019 CCNZ conference about the new direction of the agency and the start of the light rail project in Auckland. By Alan Titchall.
Led by the Government’s own transport agenda, Transport Agency chief Fergus Gammie spoke on the different path the NZTA has set before...
JONATHAN BHANA-THOMSON, CEO, NZ HEAVY HAULAGE ASSOCIATION
WIRE ROPE MEDIAN BARRIERS have an excellent record for reducing head-on accidents in black-spot areas, however the requirements for other road users – including the oversize industry – must be taken into account when planning for them.
The past few years have seen the rise...
From Tommy Parker, general manager, System Design & Delivery, New Zealand Transport Agency.
THERE’S NO DOUBT that since joining the NZ Transport Agency, or Transit NZ as it was then known back in 2005, my various roles have allowed me to enjoy ‘the best seat in the house’ watching and contributing to the huge changes within...
By Greg Sheehan, Sheehan's Transport Assistance
WELL, HERE WE go again. A long hot summer made worse by PPE, February 2018 Contractor magazine.
Somebody brave enough to stand up and say, “What a nonsense!” David’s views on workplace PPE and mine are of the same opinion. Will PPE stand for ‘poor pricks expired’ in the...
Restoring six SH1 bridges damaged in the Kaikoura quake involved a very complex heavy haulage programme to get over 100 concrete beams from the North Island to the South in a few short months. By Mary Searle Bell.
IN LATE 2016, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake rocked Kaikoura, devastating the landscape. State Highway 1 between Seddon and...
The great push to re-open SH1 between Picton and Christchurch in time for the Christmas holidays was a warmly-welcomed success, but the work goes on. Hugh de Lacy reports on this project in the second of his articles.
THE VISITOR SPEND in Kaikoura over the Christmas holidays just past was quadruple that of the same period in 2016,...
Never in the history of this magazine has there been such an overwhelming response to a story. The moment ‘A long hot summer made worse by PPE’, based on comments from David Price the director of D&K Price, making a stand against full cover personal protective equipment (PPE) was published on our website, the comments poured...
Allen Browne from the Hiway Group spoke on the company’s experience with foamed bitumen at the 18th annual NZTA/NZIHT conference held late last year. This is a precis of his presentation.
BACK IN 2003 Hiway Stabilizers retrofitted a Komatsu stabiliser with a foamed bitumen binder application bar above the rotor.
Despite some pretty...
