“Drivers need to take care, to expect one lane traffic at Lake Moeraki, with surface flooding and debris on the road in several locations, making it a slower than normal trip,” says Pete Connors, Regional Performance Manager for the Transport Agency.
Around 37mm of rain fell in one hour and about 50mm in two hours in South Westland early today as a weather bomb moves up the West Coast.
Drivers should normally check the Transport Agency’s traffic and travel map or the social media sites (below) for updates, however we are experiencing technical trouble this morning so web traffic closure details may not be reliable. Apologies for this.
Are you getting information via our social media sites? This is the link to do that.
To get updates from the West Coast Regional Council’s Civil Defence team/ Chris Raine CD Regional Manager/ Group Controller email: chrisr@wcrc.govt.nz
- NZ Transport Agency's travel and traffic page here.
- Otago Southland Transport Agency Twitter updates and Canterbury West Coast Twitter updates
- Transport Agency Facebook South Island
- Call 0800 4 HIGHWAYS 0800 44 44 49