Source: New Zealand Transport Agency – Press Release/Statement:
Headline: Overnight, intermittent closure of Porter River Bridge, State Highway 73, from Monday, 12 March
From next Monday night, 12 March, the bridge will be closed overnight for an hour at a time from 10pm to 6am. It will be opened on the hour, (for example at 11 pm, then at midnight, then 1 am) every hour to clear traffic. The exception will be emergency vehicles which will be helped across the bridge as quickly as possible.
- The work will be completed by 26 March, if crews get a run of dry weather. If not, the nights may be extended.
- The Porter River bridge is about 8kms west of Lake Lyndon, between Lake Lyndon and Castle Hill Village/Cave Stream Scenic Reserve.
- The work is to repair the bridge deck seals.
- Electronic signs on State Highway 73 will warn drivers of the intermittent closure from Tuesday, 6 March.
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