Less is more …
By Cos Bruyn, Managing Director, Fulton Hogan. I read with interest the article on Auckland City traffic management under review in the May Contractor magazine and...
Tag : traffic management
Turning the tide on abuse from the public
There has been a lot of publicity recently about the state of our roads, particularly the national highway network. By CCNZ chief executive Alan Pollard. Our...
Providing for oversize at your roading work sites
By Jonathan Bhana-Thomson, CEO, Heavy Haulage Association. The NZTA says this road maintenance season will be the busiest ever on the State Highway network and...
Roading sites and oversize loads
By Jonathan Bhana-Thomson, chief executive, Heavy haulage association. The increasing amount of new road construction and maintenance activities on the nation’s roading network this time...
Rai Saddle realignment
A key risk-spot on SH6 between Blenheim and Nelson has undergone a challenging realignment. Hugh de Lacy reports. NO FEWER THAN 20 people have died...
In memory of Pauline
This article first appeared in Contractor February 2017. MARY SEARLE BELL looks back on the award-winning career of Pauline Nobbs, who led the traffic management...
A day at Christchurch’s Avon-Heathcote Estuary
Repairing and widening the roads around Christchurch’s iconic Avon-Heathcote Estuary posed many interesting challenges, not all of them anticipated, as CHRIS MACANN explains. FOR MANY,...
Ferrymead Bridge: a classic lesson
The piles on Christchurch’s Ferrymead Bridge would never survive a decent earthquake, the experts said – and then one arrived and proved them right. Hugh...
Auckland’s missing link
AUCKLAND’S $2.5 BILLION City Rail Link project passed a milestone in April, with the appointment of two construction consortia to commence the first phase of...
Higgins sets roundabout straight
Two and a half years after 31-year-old American tourist Kallan Stithem died at a notorious King Country intersection while on his honeymoon, the New Zealand Transport...