Source: Radio New Zealand
Contractors backfilling concrete next to the southbound lane after drainage has been installed. Supplied / NZTA
The Transport Agency (NZTA) will not be shutting the northbound lanes of Transmission Gully down this weekend as planned, due to a large Kāpiti fair.
NZTA has been spending $32 million fixing up the $1.25 billion motorway just over three years after it opened because chip sealing was never completed.
Six kilometres of road would be rebuilt where water was seeping into the pavement, and there was 18km of chip sealing work to be done.
Some of that work was set to take place this weekend, shutting down northbound lanes of the road – but that was scrapped due to the Kāpiti Food Fair on Saturday.
The event was expected to attract over 10,000 people from the wider Wellington region.
NZTA warned there would still be some lane closures in place and that people should factor in longer travel times.
Drivers could also use State Highway 59 as an alternative route.
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