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Storm event: 27 January 2023 (OurAuckland)

Auckland Emergency Management's Civil Defence Centre on the North Shore has moved to Massey University's Albany Campus.

“Emergency responders are working as hard as they can to respond to this situation. “If it is safe to stay home, please do so. The declaration was signed immediately following formal advice from the Duty Controller of Auckland Emergency Management that it was required. Do not put yourself at risk,” said Mayor Brown. Thank you for your understanding," said the concert promoter Frontier Touring, on The region has experienced widespread damage from flooding and torrential rain, with reports of slips and inundation. "Auckland, due to unsafe weather conditions, tonight's Elton John concert for Friday 27 January will not be proceeding. Those who are displaced or need assistance can access the centre via the main entrance at Gate 1. Do not put yourself at risk,” he says. Leonards Road, Kelston. As the situation continues to evolve, Auckland Emergency Management advises that people keep up to date with the latest travel advice by following Auckland Transport on Twitter Auckland Emergency Management has opened two further Civil Defence Centres to assist those that have been displaced or need assistance following the recent severe weather – one on the North Shore and one in the South.

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Matt Martel: Friday night 'sheltering in place' at the Ahuroa Volunteer ... (New Zealand Herald)

An hour north out of Auckland, I was diverted before the Dome Valley across to State Highway 16 via Kaipara Flats. A landslide had closed the road a few minutes ...

I am now aware of how lucky we had been to make it to the fire station. The car agreed and made a fine job of the crossing. I headed to Warkworth, which was only eventful for the number of dead vehicles littering the road. We flagged a driver down and he told us it was now possible to get back to Warkworth in a high-axle vehicle. (I grew up spending a lot of weekends on marae, but the trick to getting to sleep evaded me then and now.) I watched 4WDs get through and thought it would be wrong to call upon my car to yet again play act as a boat. To add to my shame, I was dressed for work in a bright spotted shirt from Strangely Normal and brown dress shoes. The TV was rigged to show Netflix. The driver stopped and I told him the road ahead was okay. At the end of that valley, a queue of cars waited. The cars were stopped at the deepest water I had seen yet. After a while, it occurred to me that the owner might be an over-confident fool.

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Canterbury business owner fumes at 'surprise' roadworks (Stuff.co.nz)

Rakaia business owner Clint Collett is frustrated with a lack of consultation from Waka Kotahi about the current roadworks affecting access to his, and other ...

Originally the weigh-in-motion site was proposed to be used to collect data for all vehicles travelling over the Rakaia Bridge with a camera for automated number plate recognition to allow the identification of trucks that are overloaded, travelling over speed, or that have unpaid road user charges. Concerns halted the original proposal at the North Rakaia Rd site in 2019 and Caygill said a site south of the Rangitata River was “briefly considered but was discounted due to the significant reduction in the number of heavy vehicles it would capture”. Data obtained from Waka Kotahi’s current weigh-in-motion site, built in the road in 2015, shows a 17% increase in the number of heavy vehicles from 2018 to 2022. “The most significant issue raised with the Rakaia site in talking to the freight industry and key stakeholders was the difficulty in turning right out of the site. “Whilst I appreciate and understand Waka Kotahi’s aspiration for a weighbridge located in the south of our region, the safety of road users must be the paramount concern.” “Hence the decision was made to split the sites to make all turns left in and left out.” Sewlyn MP Nicola Grigg said she was aware of local opposition not for the facility itself, “but the location of it on an obviously dangerous stretch of the road”. The centre is now being built as a split-site facility, with a northbound site at Weavers Rd (north of the Rakaia rail overbridge), and the southbound site on the opposite side of SH1 at North Rakaia Rd (between the river bridge and the overhead rail bridge), which was the original proposed site back in 2019. “That’s the speed when they reach the bridge but when they pull out of the side road they are going to be crawling up getting to that speed.” “The fastest one of them got to when they entered the concrete abutments of the bridge was 52kph, and the other was 46kph. A safety audit concluded “there are no known issues at these intersections relative to the left turn in and left turn out manoeuvres”, he said. “As an industry, there is nothing wrong with policing – it has to happen to get the cowboys out of the industry.

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