Southbound lanes of Auckland’s Southern Motorway will be closed for a time in the early hours of tomorrow morning so an overheight truck stopped on the roadside can be removed.
The New Zealand Transport Agency says the truck set off alarms designed to warn the driver and allow time to pull over before hitting the Penrose Road bridge.
The southbound Ellerslie-Panmure on-ramp will be closed at 2am and traffic management trucks across motorway lanes will hold back vehicles until the truck is off the motorway.
The closure will allow the truck to turn around, leave the motorway and continue its journey on local roads, says NZTA acting Auckland system manager Paul Geck.
The closure is expected to place for about an hour, and motorists are being advised to delay their journey southbound on SH1 at this time or allow extra time.
NZTA says there has been a record low number of reported bridge strikes recently, with only two reported in the 2017/18 financial year, compared with 11 in 2016/17 and 16 in 2015/16.
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