{"id":385436,"date":"2026-04-18T06:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T06:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/385436\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T06:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T06:57:08","slug":"sh-2-through-waioweka-gorge-closed-due-to-slip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/385436\/","title":{"rendered":"SH 2 through Waioweka Gorge closed due to slip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/4JPYUO8_Waioweka_closed_png.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"731\" alt=\"Forecasted rain and an unstable slip has closed State highway 2 through Waioweka Gorge.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nState Highway 2 through Waioweka Gorge is closed.<br \/>\nPhoto: NZTA\/Screenshot\n<\/p>\n<p>Forecasted rain and an unstable slip has closed State Highway 2 through Waioweka Gorge.<\/p>\n<p>The Bay of Plenty, East of Whakat\u0101ne River, is under an Orange Heavy Rain Warning from 3am Sunday through to 4pm.<\/p>\n<p>The Transport Agency said it will remain closed until after that weather as the Goldsmith Slip is not fully cleared.<\/p>\n<p>It will likely reopen Sunday evening after the weather has passed and the road has been inspected.<\/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":"State Highway 2 through Waioweka Gorge is closed. Photo: NZTA\/Screenshot Forecasted rain and an unstable slip has closed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385437,"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-385436","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\/385436","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=385436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}