{"id":207602,"date":"2025-12-30T01:32:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T01:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/207602\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T01:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T01:32:08","slug":"auckland-holiday-traffic-long-delays-on-southern-motorway-as-motorists-head-to-new-years-hotspots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/207602\/","title":{"rendered":"Auckland holiday traffic: Long delays on Southern Motorway as motorists head to New Year\u2019s hotspots"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"LengthyLengthy traffic queue on the Southern Motorway. Photo \/ NZTA<\/p>\n

The NZTA traffic dashboard indicated the route from Bombay to Auckland City on SH1 will take 14 minutes longer than usual. <\/p>\n

The route from Auckland City to Bombay via SH1\/SH20\/SH16 will take about 20 minutes longer. <\/p>\n

Despite the delays and crashes typical during the holiday period, New Zealand\u2019s annual road toll is trending lower, with 2025 on track to be among the lowest totals in decades.<\/a><\/p>\n

As of this morning \u2013 with two days left of the year \u2013 the provisional toll sat at 269; if it remains below 272, it would be the second-lowest annual total since 1951.<\/p>\n

Sign up to The Daily H<\/a>, a free newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lengthy traffic queue on the Southern Motorway. Photo \/ NZTA The NZTA traffic dashboard indicated the route from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[806,51,3952,674,75031,126680,97846,16492,106,42,189,2072,53356,2190,51720,3945,117,43,90,10903,8814,171,1355,61,40,38,41,39,3946,102,1530],"class_list":["post-207602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-as","tag-auckland","tag-aucklands","tag-building","tag-celebrations","tag-clog","tag-congestion","tag-delays","tag-head","tag-headlines","tag-holiday","tag-holidaymakers","tag-hotspots","tag-long","tag-motorists","tag-motorway","tag-new","tag-news","tag-on","tag-popular","tag-routes","tag-southern","tag-starting","tag-to","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-traffic","tag-with","tag-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}