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    Quote Originally Posted by FJRider View Post
    The current road toll is 352.

    Given your average toll ... that's about 35 people that have died in that city area alone ... so far this year.
    The road toll for 2019 was 352. The current toll so far this year is 123
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    That would prove if locals are crap.
    They are, but they seem to survive somehow.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Swoop View Post
    They are, but they seem to survive somehow.
    They breed quite easily.

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    Any speed limit changes coming soon or are those just rumors?

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    Quote Originally Posted by lexfurther View Post
    Any speed limit changes coming soon or are those just rumors?
    Yes, sadly. NZTA has an official map of all the new coming limits. Someone could prob do an OIA request to see it.
    But basically any road that is not a motorway will be 80k or less, many urban areas be 40 or 30 etc...
    They are drip feeding out the changes so there isn’t a massive backlash by public but it is coming.
    A govt mp mentioned all this in radio interview few months ago
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    Quote Originally Posted by R650R View Post
    Yes, sadly. NZTA has an official map of all the new coming limits. Someone could prob do an OIA request to see it.
    But basically any road that is not a motorway will be 80k or less, many urban areas be 40 or 30 etc...
    They are drip feeding out the changes so there isn’t a massive backlash by public but it is coming.
    A govt mp mentioned all this in radio interview few months ago
    Chris Hipkins announced only a few days ago that a lot of the proposed speed limit changes are now not going ahead.

    Narrowing the speed reduction programme to focus on the most dangerous one per cent of state highways, where there are the highest numbers of deaths and injuries and where local communities support change.....On speed limit changes, Hipkins said they would only reduce in the areas of high numbers of death and injuries. There would still be targeted reductions around schools and marae.
    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politi...NMJREI4TIHPQM/

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    Quote Originally Posted by onearmedbandit View Post
    Chris Hipkins announced only a few days ago that a lot of the proposed speed limit changes are now not going ahead.
    And does anyone here genuinely believe that the entire Labour party has had a change of heart?
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    Quote Originally Posted by TheDemonLord View Post
    And does anyone here genuinely believe that the entire Labour party has had a change of heart?
    There does seem to be a bit of a change of direction with chippy in charge. We'll see if it comes to anything.....

    It looks a lot like they're taking the cyclone recovery as a chance (excuse?) to ditch a bunch of stuff that was being done to keep fringe groups happy, and concentrate on things that actually matter towards keeping the country functioning.

    A bit hard to justify spending money on running around replacing road signs for some minor perceived risk reduction, when there is a massive amount of money needed for replacing entire roads.
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    Quote Originally Posted by onearmedbandit View Post
    Chris Hipkins announced only a few days ago that a lot of the proposed speed limit changes are now not going ahead.



    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politi...NMJREI4TIHPQM/
    Yes I saw that in news, that is correct in short term.
    But it remains that the road management authorities are liable under OSH if they do nothing. So that along with greens anti-car/truck mantra will keep it slowly ticking over.

    As the other two posters mention it’s part of the policy bonfire to keep potential labour voters warmed up along with cost of the signage. Like a pentagon hammer purchase it prob costs ten k every time they change a sign.
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    Quote Originally Posted by R650R View Post
    Yes I saw that in news, that is correct in short term.
    But it remains that the road management authorities are liable under OSH if they do nothing. So that along with greens anti-car/truck mantra will keep it slowly ticking over.

    As the other two posters mention it’s part of the policy bonfire to keep potential labour voters warmed up along with cost of the signage. Like a pentagon hammer purchase it prob costs ten k every time they change a sign.
    I'm under no misunderstanding about the reasons why they've announced this change of tact, but still the fact remains that currently the focus has been shifted elsewhere.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TheDemonLord View Post
    And does anyone here genuinely believe that the entire Labour party has had a change of heart?
    Not change of heart ... just a simple change of priorities. Extreme weather events have that effect on Government policies and planning.

    To NOT do so ... might mean a few terms with the Party spent on the back benches.


    The number of voters that (currently) do not have a home to live in ... could easily change the party in power after the next election. Or (depending on this Governments actions now) not.


    The scale of the devastation will mean ... ALL promised spending (everywhere else in the Country) can be scaled back ... or just simply put it on hold (again).


    Watch this space ...
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    Quote Originally Posted by R650R View Post
    Yes, sadly. NZTA has an official map of all the new coming limits. Someone could prob do an OIA request to see it.
    But basically any road that is not a motorway will be 80k or less, many urban areas be 40 or 30 etc..
    I have access to the 'secret' map, as do a few others on here. Some 100's and 110's, single lane rural roads become 80 unless they are unsealed when they become 60. Most urban roads are 30, busier ones are 40.

    What is funny about this is NZTA soon realised that they did not have the 'social licence' to do wholesale speed limit reductions so they have been kicking that particular bucket around delaying things while at the same time coercing local authorities to do their own roads. Some have, some are working on it, but NZTA have got themselves off the hook now with the recent announcement.

    They will still drop the speed limit outside schools, there is public buy-in to that even on good old KB. They will be forced into dropping urban speed limits if the highway passes through a town where the council have done all the side streets. I bet that is all we are going to see for now.

    To be honest they shot themselves in the foot with this anyway. If TPTB were actually serious about speed management they would just say right, the default rural speed limit is now 80, the default urban speed limit is 30 and you all have 12 months to sort your shit out and get the signs up. The savings are not from the physical cost of installing all the signs, that's nothing in the scheme of things, it is the cost for all the speed management plans being written and all the consultation requirements around that. Did someone say gravy train?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Berries View Post
    I have access to the 'secret' map, as do a few others on here. Some 100's and 110's, single lane rural roads become 80 unless they are unsealed when they become 60. Most urban roads are 30, busier ones are 40.

    What is funny about this is NZTA soon realised that they did not have the 'social licence' to do wholesale speed limit reductions so they have been kicking that particular bucket around delaying things while at the same time coercing local authorities to do their own roads. Some have, some are working on it, but NZTA have got themselves off the hook now with the recent announcement.

    They will still drop the speed limit outside schools, there is public buy-in to that even on good old KB. They will be forced into dropping urban speed limits if the highway passes through a town where the council have done all the side streets. I bet that is all we are going to see for now.

    To be honest they shot themselves in the foot with this anyway. If TPTB were actually serious about speed management they would just say right, the default rural speed limit is now 80, the default urban speed limit is 30 and you all have 12 months to sort your shit out and get the signs up. The savings are not from the physical cost of installing all the signs, that's nothing in the scheme of things, it is the cost for all the speed management plans being written and all the consultation requirements around that. Did someone say gravy train?
    you say gravy train and I imagine a sushi train with a bunch of different flavoured gravy in jugs coming around.
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    Quote Originally Posted by neels View Post
    There does seem to be a bit of a change of direction with chippy in charge. We'll see if it comes to anything.....

    It looks a lot like they're taking the cyclone recovery as a chance (excuse?) to ditch a bunch of stuff that was being done to keep fringe groups happy, and concentrate on things that actually matter towards keeping the country functioning.

    A bit hard to justify spending money on running around replacing road signs for some minor perceived risk reduction, when there is a massive amount of money needed for replacing entire roads.
    I don't buy it for a second.

    The most charitable I could be (in line with what you are suggesting) is that they've simply said 'now is not the right time' - as opposed to admitting the Policie(s) in question are fundamentally flawed.

    And yes, Labour spending money it doesn't have to fix problems it created.

    See what I mean by no real change...
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