{"id":370326,"date":"2026-04-09T00:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T00:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/370326\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T00:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T00:07:09","slug":"state-highway-2-blocked-by-slip-in-the-waioweka-gorge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/370326\/","title":{"rendered":"State Highway 2 blocked by slip in the Waioweka Gorge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/4JU0TWP_10852_jpg.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"787\" alt=\"Damage in the Wairata Valley following torrential rain on 16 January that brought down slips on SH2, closing the Waioweka Gorge.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nAn earlier slip in the Waioweka Gorge. (File photo)<br \/>\nPhoto: Supplied \/ Rebecca Redpath\n<\/p>\n<p>A slip has blocked State Highway 2 in the Waioweka Gorge, south of \u014cp\u014dtiki.<\/p>\n<p>It was the main road and transport link into the Tair\u0101whiti region on the East Coast of the North Island.<\/p>\n<p>Contractors were on site but motorists were asked to take alternate routes.<\/p>\n<p>There were also other areas of the Rotorua and Eastern Bay of Plenty area where there was surface flooding.<\/p>\n<p>Police were advising people to take extra care if they needed to travel.<\/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>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An earlier slip in the Waioweka Gorge. (File photo) Photo: Supplied \/ Rebecca Redpath A slip has blocked&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370327,"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":["post-370326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370326","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=370326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}