4 Apr 2025

Around the motu: Samantha Gee in Nelson

From Nine To Noon, 10:45 am on 4 April 2025
Dublin Street was closed for over a year so underground services could be moved and an overbridge built as part of the Inter-island Resilient Connection (i-Rex) project, but it was shelved before the bridge was built.

Dublin Street was closed for over a year so underground services could be moved and an overbridge built as part of the Inter-island Resilient Connection (i-Rex) project, but it was shelved before the bridge was built. Photo: RNZ / Samantha Gee

Nelson and Tasman are in the firing line for an atmospheric river, this weather is coming on the back of a drought, the new ferries plan "just needs to be done" according to Picton residents and a consultation has been planned for controversial speed limit reversals in Tasman.

Samantha Gee is RNZ's Nelson reporter.

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