{"id":404712,"date":"2026-04-30T09:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T09:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/404712\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T09:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T09:04:09","slug":"auckland-southwestern-motorway-lanes-reopen-after-rock-spill-near-onehunga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/404712\/","title":{"rendered":"Auckland Southwestern Motorway lanes reopen after rock spill near Onehunga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Rocks were reported strewn across multiple lanes on Auckland&#8217;s Southwestern Motorway. Photo \/ NZTA<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A spill of rocks closed lanes on a busy Auckland motorway for two hours tonight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The spill happened on the southbound lanes of the Southwestern Motorway near Onehunga and caused major delays.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police said the incident near the Neilson St offramp happened about 6.20pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi said<br \/>\n         at 8.30pm all lanes had reopened after crews worked to clear the road.\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rocks were reported strewn across multiple lanes on Auckland&#8217;s Southwestern Motorway. Photo \/ NZTA A spill of rocks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,51,11776,5201,11551,3950,3945,3180,111,43,139,69,31779,1230,1629,4204,107848,48216,5911],"class_list":["post-404712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-auckland","tag-busy","tag-closed","tag-hours","tag-lanes","tag-motorway","tag-near","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-onehunga","tag-reopen","tag-rock","tag-rocks","tag-southwestern","tag-spill","tag-tonight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404712","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=404712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}