{"id":6072,"date":"2023-07-03T05:23:48","date_gmt":"2023-07-02T17:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=6072"},"modified":"2023-07-03T05:23:48","modified_gmt":"2023-07-02T17:23:48","slug":"wild-weather-auckland-harbour-bridge-likely-to-be-closed-today-due-to-110km-h-gales-waka-kotahi-nzta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=6072","title":{"rendered":"Wild weather: Auckland Harbour Bridge likely to be closed today due to 110km\/h gales &#8211; Waka Kotahi NZTA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Auckland Harbour Bridge is likely to be closed tomorrow afternoon because of forecast 110km\/h gales, says Waka Kotahi NZTA.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, SH1 is due to re-open this evening after a slip with 30 truckloads worth of material blocked the road as more wild weather hits Auckland.<\/p>\n<p>A Waka Kotahi New Zealand Transport Agency spokesperson told the\u00a0<i>NZ Herald\u00a0<\/i>that today the Harbour Bridge would be under a red alert from 12pm to 9pm, as wind gusts of 90 to 100km\/h are forecast, possibly reaching up to 110 km\/h.<\/p>\n<p>Under a red alert, all lanes on the bridge are closed. However the spokesperson clarified that the bridge would only be closed if the winds exceeded 100km\/h.<\/p>\n<p>From 4am to 7am today, the bridge will be back under an amber alert, with wind gusts of 75 to 80km\/h forecast.<\/p>\n<p>Under an amber alert, speeds are reduced and some lanes on the bridge may close.<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Auckland Harbour Bridge is likely to be closed tomorrow afternoon because of forecast 110km\/h gales, says Waka Kotahi NZTA. Meanwhile, SH1 is due to re-open this evening after a slip with 30 truckloads worth of material blocked the road as more wild weather hits Auckland. A Waka Kotahi New Zealand Transport Agency spokesperson told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6072","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\/6072","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=6072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6074,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6072\/revisions\/6074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}