Speed limit changes - or is it just me?

[Bad Biker]

Is it just me or are other people noticing that more and more 80km speed limits are popping up through 100km areas?

I find that as I ride along I am running into a lot more 80km speed areas and in the majority of times these are along a state highway may last anything from a few hundred meters to 4 or 5 km.

There appears to be no warning of entering a reduced speed limit area and 1 speed sign as you enter which is easily missed.

Why is it that a state highway with a 100km speed limit which has been there since NZ changed the max speed limit from 80 to 100km and in some cases was there before the councils gave consent for building to happen along a state highway needs to be lowered when it creates more problems and little additional safety aspects and a stop go scenario on a state highway?

Are the government aiming to returning NZ roads to 80km again in a drip feed format?

[Zamiam]

I know what you mean. Before long we will spend so much time watching for signs and our speedo that we will need someone with us to watch the road.

[Jantar]

What do mean with "before long"? Its already that way.

[1billyboy]

Yes 80 km from the Thames turnoff to the bottom of the Bombay hill.

[mrchips]

Before long we will spend so much time watching for signs and our speedo that we will need someone with us to watch the road.

Not to mention double yellows & the 60 km/hr zones appearing overnight.

I used to love driving my car, not these days..... At least on the bike it's fun being able to safely nip past long queues of piled up traffic behind slow drivers.

[haydes55]

Question, if a large number of crashes are attributed to speed (as in over the speed limit), then how will reducing the speed limit help? People are crashing from going over the speed limit few crash doing the speed limit. If shit all crashes happen at 100km/h then how do they justify reducing that to 80km/h if the crashes are occurring higher than 100km/h.

[SMOKEU]

[Tigadee]

Just more traps in order to give out more speeding fines...

[Bad Biker]

Not to mention double yellows & the 60 km/hr zones appearing overnight.

I used to love driving my car, not these days..... At least on the bike it's fun being able to safely nip past long queues of piled up traffic behind slow drivers.

I second that!!!!!!!!

Just had a thought!!!! (YES, it does happen)

They can build lanes for cyclists only so why not build lanes for motorcyclists only????

God know we pay more in insurance and registration.

(I didn’t say it was a good thought)

[superman]

Just more traps in order to give out more speeding fines...

I did that the other day

100 to an 80 about 300m before, on a road that looks the same as the previous 10km, few hundred metres after an overtaking lane.

I was unsafe and deserved my $230, will be paying to the donut fund 56 days after fine.

[davereid]

If your vehicle is 5m long, and you allow 20m stopping distance, the road has a capacity of 40 vehicles per km, per km/hr.

ie at 1 km/hr it has a capacity of 40 vehicles per hour.

at 2 km/hr it has a capacity of 80.

at 80 km/hr it has a capacity of 3200 vehicles per hour, and at 100 it has a 4000 vehicles per hour capacity.

NZTA are funded to fix CONGESTED roads.

The easiest way to congest a road is to reduce the speed limit, then to ban passing.

The clever bit is you can CLAIM that you do it for safety, as there is a small correlation between speed and accident rates.

But to do it, you have to IGNORE the large correlation between traffic density and accident rates.


Thats easy. Its New Zealand. No one can count.

[Fast Eddie]

god damn, whats wrong with just tougher licensing and more driver training etc?

lets give that ago.

I was going between auckland and tauranga and they have 90km "safer speed limits" along the way.. what a drag - I kinda just ignored them like most others I was following

[Scuba_Steve]

Just more traps in order to give out more speeding fines...

+1 I have mentioned this somewhere else, but my belief is the Govts currently "expanding" their money making net as part of a much larger equation. This includes the lowering of speed to well below reasonable levels in an effort to boost speed scam profits back up

[mrchips]

Thats easy. Its New Zealand. No one can count.

True that, + Sheep have a strong instinct to follow the sheep in front of them.

[Usarka]

According to the pamphlet i received from the police today, it's a myth that bad driving kills, instead it's speed! because speeding is a type of bad driving.

Morans never studied subsets and supersets at intermediate skool.