![]() ![]() If you were looking for alternatives to being stuck in traffic in an unfolding disaster, you were largely out of luck. This section of #SH1 – between Northcote Rd and Esmonde Rd – is now CLOSED in both directions. Please do not drive into flooded areas of roads. Please delay your journey or consider an alternative route. Surface flooding is affecting #SH1 between Albany & Silverdale. Waka Kotahi NZTA Auckland & Northland May 9, 2023 Take extra care and use an alternative route. ![]() In addition the South Eastern Hwy is flooded and closed in both directions beneath the Southern Mwy overbridge. The disruption and congestion went beyond just the city centre, with flooding and crashes on many key roads across the city, including the motorways. In the city centre, especially, there was extensive carmageddon with many intersections completely gridlocked by impatient drivers ![]() The experience will undoubtedly have caused significant stress for many people, especially those living in flood-prone areas or trying to get home to pick up kids from closed schools and day-care centres. A classic reminder that cars are great as long as everyone else isn’t also trying to use them at the same time. There are reports of people taking many hours to get home, or sometimes even just out of a carparking building. As could have been predicted, chaos ensured – because a transport system focused on the movement of cars is simply unable to cope with massive spikes in use. Obviously, rebuilding our city to fully waterproof it for these kinds of rainfall events is not something that can happen overnight, or even in a few years – if at all. But if there’s one area we really can and need to put some focus on, it’s our transport system.Īrmed with the memory of January’s floods, combined with the civil defence alert, many people headed home all at the same time. Thinking back to the Anniversary Weekend floods, that makes two 100-year rainfall events in just over three months with a torrential cyclone in between. Some parts of West Auckland received over 100mm of rain, mostly within just a few hours. It was very much a case of déjà vu all over again yesterday, as Auckland received yet another round of torrential rain, resulting in flooding and significant disruption. ![]()
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