{"id":404038,"date":"2026-04-29T23:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T23:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/404038\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T23:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T23:53:09","slug":"sh29a-tauranga-traffic-mayhem-delays-commuters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/404038\/","title":{"rendered":"SH29a Tauranga traffic mayhem delays commuters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bay of Plenty Times<\/p>\n<p>29 Apr, 2026 09:55 PMQuick Read<\/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\">Traffic at a standstill on State Highway 29a in Tauranga. Photo \/ Supplied<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Tauranga residents are reporting traffic mayhem in the city as people battle to get to work and school this morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">One resident, who did not want to be named, said it took her at least 20 minutes to get out of Ohauiti Rd. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         \u201cAnd that was just from the<br \/>\n         bus stop down past the garden centre.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cCars were leaving the line and turning around to try an alternative route.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bay of Plenty Times 29 Apr, 2026 09:55 PMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[5837,2199,29463,16492,14654,1304,111,139,69,384,5352,530,4062,192609,213,1227,1961,3946,4576],"class_list":["post-404038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-battle","tag-city","tag-commuters","tag-delays","tag-mayhem","tag-morning","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-people","tag-reporting","tag-residents","tag-school","tag-sh29a","tag-sports","tag-tauranga","tag-this","tag-traffic","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404038","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=404038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}