{"id":360423,"date":"2026-04-02T14:50:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T14:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/360423\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T14:50:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T14:50:17","slug":"sh1-traffic-near-ruakaka-easing-after-downed-power-line-blocks-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/360423\/","title":{"rendered":"SH1 traffic near Ruak\u0101k\u0101 easing after downed power line blocks road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/9efb65fe-03d6-4e60-850d-8911700e8a2f.png\" alt=\"Brodie Stone\" class=\"rounded-full object-cover h-[3.4375rem] w-[3.4375rem] min-w-[3.4375rem]\" data-test-ui=\"author--details__image\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/northern-advocate\/author\/brodie-stone\/\" class=\"text-sys-text-dark underline underline-offset-3\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" data-test-ui=\"author--link\" target=\"_blank\">Brodie Stone<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Multimedia Journalist\u00b7Northern Advocate\u00b7<\/p>\n<p>1 Apr, 2026 10:47 PMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Police say the traffic has started to clear. Photo \/  Michael Cunningham\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Easter weekend commuters travelling south on State Highway 1 were delayed because of a downed power line near Ruak\u0101k\u0101. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Motorists reported long queues both ways on SH1 close to Uretiti, however, police have said traffic has started to clear. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         An update from the New Zealand Transport Agency Waka<br \/>\n         Kotahi earlier said the road was closed between Whang\u0101rei and Brynderwyn, with a detour in place.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\">Brodie Stone covers crime and emergency for the Northern Advocate. She has spent most of her life in Whang\u0101rei and is passionate about delving into issues that matter to Northlanders and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brodie Stone Multimedia Journalist\u00b7Northern Advocate\u00b7 1 Apr, 2026 10:47 PMQuick Read \u200c Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,17517,46330,29463,10669,23995,24749,171628,42,26755,15220,3180,43,10112,1314,72851,37229,1240,13672,40,38,41,39,3946,14344,4767,3608],"class_list":["post-360423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-after","tag-because","tag-blocks","tag-commuters","tag-delayed","tag-downed","tag-easing","tag-easter","tag-headlines","tag-highway","tag-line","tag-near","tag-news","tag-power","tag-road","tag-ruakk","tag-sh1","tag-south","tag-state","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-traffic","tag-travelling","tag-weekend","tag-were"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360423","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=360423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}