{"id":12316,"date":"2025-01-13T06:05:10","date_gmt":"2025-01-12T17:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=12316"},"modified":"2025-01-13T06:05:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T17:05:10","slug":"desert-road-now-closed-for-two-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=12316","title":{"rendered":"Desert Road now closed for two months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Desert Road between T\u016brangi and Waiouru will close for maintenance for two months from Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Waka Kotahi NZTA said\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/534283\/desert-road-closure-to-cause-huge-loss-of-productivity-trucking-industry-says\">the work involved<\/a>\u00a0reconstructing 16 kilometres of road, improving drainage, clearing 15 kilometres of road shoulder and replacing the deck of the Mangatoetoenui Bridge.<\/p>\n<h3>New bridge deck will add 50 years to its lifespan<\/h3>\n<p>Regional manager of maintenance and operations in Waikato-Bay of Plenty, Roger Brady, said the bridge was built in 1966 and in need of replacement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This job alone would require the road to have been closed for about a month, so being able to do this at the same time as the other maintenance work due is a real win,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The new deck for the Mangatoetoenui Bridge had been designed and was being built in Napier, ready to be shipped this week.<\/p>\n<p>It consisted of steel girders and a concrete slab, which would be transported in two sections and then stitched together once on-site.<\/p>\n<p>Once the new deck was in place, the Mangatoetoenui Bridge was expected to last another 50 years before it needed replacing.<\/p>\n<p>rnz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Desert Road between T\u016brangi and Waiouru will close for maintenance for two months from Monday. Waka Kotahi NZTA said\u00a0the work involved\u00a0reconstructing 16 kilometres of road, improving drainage, clearing 15 kilometres of road shoulder and replacing the deck of the Mangatoetoenui Bridge. New bridge deck will add 50 years to its lifespan Regional manager of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":12317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12318,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12316\/revisions\/12318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}