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Arthur's Pass remains closed by slip

Author
Chelsea Daniels,
Publish Date
Mon, 23 Jan 2017, 5:26AM
Arthur's Pass will remain closed until tomorrow morning (Jessica McCarthy)
Arthur's Pass will remain closed until tomorrow morning (Jessica McCarthy)

Arthur's Pass remains closed by slip

Author
Chelsea Daniels,
Publish Date
Mon, 23 Jan 2017, 5:26AM

Those wanting to head to the West Coast will have to add another 1 1/2 hours to their journey.

Arthur's Pass will remain closed until tomorrow morning.

The road has been closed since last week's bad weather - which put up to 50,000 cubic metres of debris on the road.

People are advised to travel via State Highway 7 through Lewis Pass.

NZTA's Regional Performance Manager Pete Connors said around 30 people have been working hard to clear the slip.

"The slip itself has just remained too saturated for it to be safe to let traffic through at the present."

Pete Connors said they're hoping the road will be open tomorrow at 8AM - only during daylight hours and for ten minutes every hour.

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