Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency
25 November 2025, 9:30 PM
Photo: Unsplash, Brian McGowanInvercargill:
Parts of State Highway 6 and State Highway 1 in Invercargill will be closed on Saturday, 29 November, from 12pm to 3pm for a Christmas event.
SH6 traffic will be detoured via Gala Street, Esk Street and Tay Street, while SH1 vehicles will be redirected from Tweed Street to the Racecourse Road roundabout and Carnavon Street.
Drivers are advised to allow extra time.
Detours include Victoria Avenue, Liddell Street and Tweed Street for SH6, and Conon Street and Tweed Street for SH1, with routes reversed depending on travel direction.
Bluff:
A section of State Highway 1 in Bluff, between Palmer Street and Liffey Street, will be closed in both directions on Sunday, 7 December, from 11am to 1pm for a Christmas event.
Traffic will have no access to the Stirling Point end of SH1 during the closure.
Drivers are advised to allow extra time. Detours for SH1 southbound traffic will run via Liffey Street, Foyle Street and Onslow Street, with the reverse for northbound travel.
Access to the ferry terminal will be via Shannon Street and Foreshore Road.
Riverton
A section of State Highway 99 in Riverton, between Lucknow Street and Jetty Street, will be closed in both directions on Wednesday, 24 December, from 6pm to 10pm for a Christmas event.
There will be no access through to the Aparima River Bridge during the closure.
Motorists are advised to allow extra time, with a detour in place via Lucknow Street, Havelock Street and Jetty Street.
Gore
Multiple sections of State Highway 1 and State Highway 94 in Gore will be closed on Sunday, 14 December, from 11am to 1.30pm for a Christmas event.
Closures affect SH1 from the Mersey Street roundabout through to the Crombie/Hyde Street roundabout, and from the Norfolk/River Street roundabout through to Hokonui Drive and Main Street.
A further closure on SH94 runs from the SH94/SH1 roundabout north to Traford Street and the FH Gore Depot.
Motorists are advised to allow extra time. SH1 southbound traffic will detour via River Street and Hyde Street, with the reverse for northbound.
SH94 southbound traffic will detour via Avon Street, Richmond Street and Norfolk Street, with the reverse for northbound.