Crews have postponed planned road resurfacing work next week on State Highway 2 between Totara Park Road and Whakatiki Street, due to persistent rainfall in recent days.

Planned work to install new traffic lights and intersection improvements at the intersection with Moonshine Road WILL still go ahead next week as scheduled.

As a result, next week’s detour for road users will be shorter than previously communicated.

Northbound road users will be detoured onto Fergusson Drive and left onto Whakatiki Street before rejoining SH2. The reverse will apply for southbound road users.

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To ensure road resurfacing is done correctly, crews require dry weather. However recent persistent rainfall has delayed resurfacing works across the Wellington region. These resurfacing works in Upper Hutt will still be done in conjunction with the intersection upgrade works to minimise disruption.

Once the new dates for resurfacing are finalised, NZTA will provide a further update.

More information

• State highway maintenance programme(external link)
• Wellington Transport Alliance(external link)
• Wellington state highway roadwork updates(external link)
• Keeping safe around roadworks (video)(external link)