{"id":407124,"date":"2026-05-01T18:36:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T18:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/407124\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T18:36:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T18:36:19","slug":"tauranga-traffic-oropi-rd-to-reopen-after-underslip-investigation-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/407124\/","title":{"rendered":"Tauranga traffic: \u014cropi Rd to reopen after underslip investigation ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">A detour was set up via SH29A, Cameron Rd and Maleme St. The council said the road would reopen if the work was completed ahead of schedule, with remedial work on the slip to take place later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">\u014cropi School principal Andrew King told the Bay of Plenty Times the school had \u201cheard nothing\u201d from Tauranga City Council about the planned closure of \u014cropi Rd between Maleme St and SH29A.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">One bus carrying about 70 students arrived at school at 9.30am, almost an hour later than its usual 8.40am arrival. Another 50 students who were driven by their parents also arrived late. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">Other parents said their children got out of their buses and walked to school. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">Commuters reported heavy congestion on SH29A, with traffic backed up from the \u014cropi Rd roundabout to Baypark.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">Tauranga City Council transport system operations manager Shawn Geard said the council received six complaints about SH29A traffic through its contact centre on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">He said the council apologised for an oversight in notifying schools about the closure and processes would be reviewed to prevent a repeat. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A detour was set up via SH29A, Cameron Rd and Maleme St. The council said the road would&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,4726,71946,94501,676,12898,111,43,139,69,2642,1230,209605,1227,61,3946,209606,4576],"class_list":["post-407124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-ends","tag-finished","tag-greerton","tag-investigate","tag-investigation","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-rd","tag-reopen","tag-ropi","tag-tauranga","tag-to","tag-traffic","tag-underslip","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407124","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=407124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}