{"id":260808,"date":"2026-01-31T10:07:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T10:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/260808\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T10:07:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T10:07:12","slug":"live-traffic-delays-expected-in-auckland-with-two-protests-planned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/260808\/","title":{"rendered":"Live: Traffic delays expected in Auckland with two protests planned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police say a large operation is now underway in central Auckland as two planned protests take place in central Auckland today.<\/p>\n<p>Protesters have begun gathering at Victoria Park, as part of the Destiny Church-affiliated Freedom and Rights Coalition rally.<\/p>\n<p>The group had its bid to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/584279\/march-planned-across-auckland-harbour-bridge-has-permit-declined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">march across the Harbour Bridge denied<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A second Palestine solidarity rally is expected at Te Komititanga Square.<\/p>\n<p>Toit\u016b te Aroha spokesperson Bianca Ranson said the aim was to stand in solidarity with diverse communities across Aotearoa.<\/p>\n<p>Follow RNZ&#8217;s liveblog at the top of this page.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero, a daily newsletter<\/a> curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police say a large operation is now underway in central Auckland as two planned protests take place in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-260808","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-podcasts","13":"tag-public-radio","14":"tag-radio-new-zealand","15":"tag-rnz","16":"tag-top-news","17":"tag-top-stories","18":"tag-topnews","19":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260808","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=260808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}