{"id":404125,"date":"2026-04-30T01:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T01:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/404125\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T01:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T01:06:11","slug":"sunlive-morning-gridlock-as-tauranga-commuter-face-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/404125\/","title":{"rendered":"SunLive &#8211; Morning gridlock as Tauranga commuter face delays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tauranga residents are reporting traffic mayhem in the city as people battle to get to work and school this morning.<\/p>\n<p>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>\u201cAnd that was just from the bus stop down past the garden centre.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCars were leaving the line and turning around to try an alternative route.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\" Traffic backed up on Poike Rd this morning. Photo \/ Alison Todd\"  data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\" style=\"width: 100%;\"\/> Traffic backed up on Poike Rd this morning. Photo \/ Alison Todd<\/p>\n<p>The resident said traffic was backed up on SH29a coming from the \u014cropi end of the highway.<\/p>\n<p>Other commuters said the road was backed up from around the Oropi Rd roundabout to Baypark.<\/p>\n<p>More to come.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\" Traffic delays on SH29a in Tauranga this morning. Image \/ Google Maps\"  data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\" style=\"width: 100%;\"\/> Traffic delays on SH29a in Tauranga this morning. Image \/ Google Maps<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tauranga residents are reporting traffic mayhem in the city as people battle to get to work and school&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-404125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404125","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=404125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}