An influx of tourists is causing massive traffic problems across the Wakatipu Basin, the mayor of the Queenstown-Lakes District says.<\/p>\n
The council was setting up a mayoral taskforce on reducing congestion, Mayor John Glover said.<\/p>\n
“Our state highway networks are really struggling to cope at peak times … we are seeing some significant gridlock.<\/p>\n
“A drive that probably would have taken 10 minutes at times is taking 90 minutes,” he said.<\/p>\n
The gridlock was prompting complaints on social media. Those living in new housing developments were struggling to get on to the state highway as well.<\/p>\n
“We actually need some traffic control to wave people through in the right places so that traffic can keep flowing,” Glover said.<\/p>\n
“Maybe a bit of human intervention to keep things going at some of these junctions might do the job.”<\/p>\n
The council is also asking the community to contribute ideas to help deal with the problem on a short-term basis, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An influx of tourists is causing massive traffic problems across the Wakatipu Basin, the mayor of the Queenstown-Lakes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-554538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554538","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=554538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}