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SH2 Remutaka Hill road 5-night closure

From Sun night 17 Jan 2021, 9pm-4am

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Tuesday 22 December 2020

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Kia ora

We're writing to let you know that State Highway 2 over the Remutaka Hill will be closed for five nights from 9pm Sunday 17 January to 4am Friday 22 January.

The 5-night block closure is the third of a number of planned closures between November 2020 and June 2021 to enable road crews to safely undertake essential maintenance and slip prevention works, for the safety of all road users. 

Please plan your journey ahead to avoid the hill closure.

Free shuttle service available
For essential travel and night-shift workers only. Due to significant resurfacing works, the shuttle will run one return trip each night between Upper Hutt and Featherston railway stations. Please book in advance, email remutaka@nzta.govt.nz

Access is always available for emergency services throughout the closure.

While these dates are fixed, bad weather may cause works to be cancelled but no other full closure dates will happen during this period, except in an emergency.

The Remutaka Hill road is steep, narrow and winding which makes it a challenging environment to work in. Having the road fully closed to traffic is critical to ensuring the safety of crews while work is being done.

The night closures also significantly reduce the number of daytime disruptions for road users and enable better quality of maintenance work. Road crews can complete many months’ worth of maintenance in a small number of closures with multiple crews working across the hill at the same time. This significantly reduces stop/go disruptions for travellers at other times which, in the past, occurred almost daily.

For more information and to see the full road closure schedule, visit nzta.govt.nz/remutaka

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