{"id":479493,"date":"2026-06-16T04:21:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T04:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/479493\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T04:21:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T04:21:10","slug":"sh16-rubbish-truck-blaze-cleared-but-congestion-lingers-westbound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/479493\/","title":{"rendered":"SH16 rubbish truck blaze cleared but congestion lingers westbound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">The truck fire caused significant delays before the Rosebank Rd offramp.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Traffic remains heavily congested on Auckland\u2019s State Highway 16 after a rubbish truck fire blocked two westbound lanes ahead of the afternoon rush hour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The heavy vehicle could be seen on traffic cameras, billowing smoke just before the Rosebank Rd offramp, heading towards Te Atat\u016b just before 2.30pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         The scene<br \/>\n         has been cleared, but traffic congestion has built up along the northwestern motorway and surrounding suburban roads.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">Earlier, a Fire and Emergency New Zealand spokesperson said one truck attended the scene, with another two pumps assisting to put out the flames.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The truck fire caused significant delays before the Rosebank Rd offramp. Traffic remains heavily congested on Auckland\u2019s State&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,11730,3017,3952,4996,28648,3013,25598,175146,97846,2079,23785,26755,33262,3950,241252,111,43,139,69,10715,38019,21532,199755,13672,3946,23857,241253],"class_list":["post-479493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-afternoon","tag-ahead","tag-aucklands","tag-blaze","tag-blocked","tag-but","tag-cleared","tag-congested","tag-congestion","tag-fire","tag-heavily","tag-highway","tag-hour","tag-lanes","tag-lingers","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-remains","tag-rubbish","tag-rush","tag-sh16","tag-state","tag-traffic","tag-truck","tag-westbound"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479493","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=479493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}