21 Sep 2020

Harbour Bridge: Commuters facing crawl in after lane closures

From Morning Report, 7:09 am on 21 September 2020

Thousands of Aucklanders face a crawl into work this morning, as rush hour traffic gets backed up by a Harbour Bridge running at 50 percent capacity.

Four of the bridge's eight lanes could be closed for weeks, after a freak gust of wind on Friday blew a truck into a structurally important load-bearing strut.

Commuters are being asked to work from home if they can, catch public transport or travel outside peak times.

But as Jordan Bond found out, some in the North Shore suburb of Northcote say that's not an option.