{"id":586725,"date":"2026-09-01T08:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T08:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/586725\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T08:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T08:56:10","slug":"drivers-warned-to-plan-ahead-as-key-dunedin-highway-closes-for-repairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/586725\/","title":{"rendered":"Drivers warned to plan ahead as key Dunedin highway closes for repairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Drivers are being urged plan ahead when\u00a0the main highway south of Dunedin\u00a0closes\u00a0for repairs on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>State Highway 1 would be closed between Kinmont Park and East Taieri, to\u00a0allow crews to safely carry out repairs to the road\u2019s wire rope barrier,\u00a0NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi said.<\/p>\n<p>The highway was\u00a0scheduled to close from 8pm to midnight, between the Riccarton Rd East and Quarry Rd intersections with SH1.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRoad users are encouraged to plan ahead.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>A detour will be available for northbound traffic via Riccarton Rd East, Gladstone Rd South and SH87\/Quarry Rd.<\/p>\n<p>The reverse will apply for southbound traffic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drivers are being urged plan ahead when\u00a0the main highway south of Dunedin\u00a0closes\u00a0for repairs on Wednesday night. State Highway&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-586725","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\/586725","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=586725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}