{"id":271836,"date":"2026-02-07T05:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T05:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/271836\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T05:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T05:09:08","slug":"emergency-responses-traffic-jams-for-two-sections-of-sh1-in-auckland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/271836\/","title":{"rendered":"Emergency responses, traffic jams for two sections of SH1 in Auckland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4KAEMAJ_RNZD0271_jpg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" alt=\"RNZ\/Reece Baker\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\n(File photo)<br \/>\nPhoto: RNZ \/ REECE BAKER\n<\/p>\n<p>Disruptions have created backlogs on two sections of major Auckland Region&#8217;s motorways on Saturday afternoon &#8211; SH1 near Takanini and the northern motorway.<\/p>\n<p>SH1 near Takanini<\/p>\n<p>A crash creating a road hazard and the emergency services response blocked two southbound lanes on State Highway 1, before the Takanini off-ramp, the Transport Agency said.<\/p>\n<p>There was no indication of how long the lanes would be closed for and drivers were advised to allow extra time for delays.<\/p>\n<p>Northern motorway<\/p>\n<p>Further north, all but one lane in both directions of the northern motorway section of State Highway 1 were blocked, due to a vehicle on fire, police said just after 1pm on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The motorway was blocked near Moir Hill Road, as emergency services responded, but one northbound lane was still open.<\/p>\n<p>Motorists were asked to take alternative routes.<\/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":"(File photo) Photo: RNZ \/ REECE BAKER Disruptions have created backlogs on two sections of major Auckland Region&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-271836","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-podcasts","15":"tag-public-radio","16":"tag-radio-new-zealand","17":"tag-rnz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271836","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=271836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}