{"id":645769,"date":"2026-10-30T10:38:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T10:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/645769\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T10:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T10:38:12","slug":"auckland-harbour-bridge-reopens-as-severe-wind-warning-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/645769\/","title":{"rendered":"Auckland Harbour Bridge reopens as severe wind warning continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img  alt=\"A crash on the Auckland Harbour Bridge closed two city-bound lanes.\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>A crash on the Auckland Harbour Bridge closed two city-bound lanes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"VFgYVkWVN\" style=\"display:none\">A person stuck in the traffic described the congestion as an \u201cabsolute cluster\u201d. <\/p>\n<p class=\"VFgYVkWVN\" style=\"display:none\">Another person trying to get on to the bridge said \u201cvery, very heavy\u201d traffic was backed up along Jervois Rd. <\/p>\n<p class=\"VFgYVkWVN\" style=\"display:none\">Photos of the bridge show traffic backed up behind the crash as police tended to the scene. <\/p>\n<p class=\"VFgYVkWVN\" style=\"display:none\">The front of one of the vehicles involved was caved in. <\/p>\n<p>\u2018Severe wind gusts\u2019 add to delays <\/p>\n<p class=\"VFgYVkWVN\" style=\"display:none\">NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi (NZTA) warned that \u201csevere wind gusts\u201d would affect travel on the bridge between 3pm and 7pm today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"VFgYVkWVN\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cReduced speed limits will be in place, and lane reductions are possible throughout the afternoon at short notice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"VFgYVkWVN\" style=\"display:none\">High-sided vehicles and motorcyclists were urged to consider delaying their journeys or detouring via SH18\/SH16. <\/p>\n<p class=\"VFgYVkWVN\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cDrive with caution and allow extra time for long delays,\u201d NZTA said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"VFgYVkWVN\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up to The Daily H<\/a>, a free newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A crash on the Auckland Harbour Bridge closed two city-bound lanes. A person stuck in the traffic described&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,806,51,1565,8604,13982,3549,16492,20589,305,42,3950,2190,97212,43,20593,1854,179435,2848,40,38,41,39,1455,10000],"class_list":["post-645769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-after","tag-as","tag-auckland","tag-bridge","tag-caused","tag-continues","tag-crash","tag-delays","tag-harbour","tag-have","tag-headlines","tag-lanes","tag-long","tag-multivehicle","tag-news","tag-reopened","tag-reopens","tag-rushhour","tag-severe","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-warning","tag-wind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645769","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=645769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}