Rural "school zone" signs.

[oneofsix]

The one I mentioned at Te Uku, between The Tron and Raglan, is a prime example of that.

There's a wee village to pass through. There's a store, a coffee shop, a school an intersection and various other bits and bobs. And the speed limit is 100km/hr. Now I ride this road a lot but I sure as hell don't go through there at 100k. It's crazy - there are cars everywhere at times and of course all the mummies have to drop their preciouses off in the SUV, so around school in and out times, it can be mayhem, with U-turns aplenty. 100km/hr? Madness.

The NZTA guy agreed and told me they were dropping the limit to 80k. I said it should be 70 but he told me that "the rules" don't allow for that...

We must have great rules...

Know of a similar one down this way and I'm sorry but I see where the NZTA guy is coming from, When there is no school, Sunday for instance, there is no one around and 70 would breed contempt. They need the variable signs, 40 around school start and finish, 70 during the school day and relax it at the weekends and well outside the school hours. In the meantime and because most of the kids are bussed or SUVed 80 works well. Even when it was 100 I always used to slow for the school area. Oops no shops where I am thinking of, the garage that used to be there is well and truly gone, but there are a couple of nice bends that speeders tend to lose it on.

[awa355]

Another example of stupidity, most of us have, on leaving a built up area, reach the open speed sign then come to a Giveway or stop sign at an intersection barely 50 metres away. If you have to stop to turn, why not leave the 100k sign untill traffic has gone through the intersection?

[Berries]

Not sure it is stupidity. In that example you'd need a 100km/h sign on the main road either side of the intersection, and you'd still need a 50k sign for people turning in to the side road. It isn't possible (legally) to have a different speed limit based on the direction of travel, which is what you would need here.

Same thing happens at roadworks. Be great if they could just lower the speed limit on the side that the work is being done on.