Road users are warned to take care due to surface flooding, slips and rockfall after bad weather hit Central Otago, the West Coast and Canterbury.<\/p>\n
While the rain has eased and MetService has lifted its weather warnings,\u00a0NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi said area warnings remain in place this morning, a spokesman advised.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Contractors have been sent out to deal with rockfall reported on State Highway 8 between Lindis Pass and Lindis Valley in Central Otago.<\/p>\n
Area warnings over surface flooding remain in place at the following West Coast locations:<\/p>\n
SH7 between Reefton and Springs Junction (Rahu Saddle)SH\u00a06\/Lower Buller Gorge between Inangahua and the intersection with State Highway 67\/Buller RoadSH 6 between Makarora and Haast (including Haast Pass)SH 6 between Haast and Hokitika<\/p>\n
Temporary traffic lights and a 30km\/h temporary speed limit reduction have also been in operation overnight on SH73, between Jacksons and Aickens, due to a slip yesterday blocking a lane of traffic.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In Christchurch, significant surface flooding has been reported this morning on SH 74\/Anzac Drive, north of Wetlands Grove, and caution is being urged for those travelling on this route.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
MetService said an “unsettled and cold showery” west-to-southwest flow was forecast and more wind warnings were possible, particularly for Southland and Otago, on Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
– Allied Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Road users are warned to take care due to surface flooding, slips and rockfall after bad weather hit…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-419524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419524","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=419524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}