Moving back speed limits, new school signage may cost $25m – AT
Auckland Transport estimates it could cost up to $25 million to meet the government’s new speed rule to increase speed limits on roads where it has been lowered and put in variable school speed limits.
The Minister of Transport signed the speed rule into law last month, ordering speed limits be reversed to their pre-2019 levels by 1 July next year, and introducing variable speed limits around schools a year after that.
General manager of transport safety Teresa Burnett told the Auckland Transport board on Tuesday that speed limits on 1800 local roads will need to be increased.
The majority of those – 1760 – are in neighbourhoods with schools in the area, where limits were lowered from 50km/hr to 30km/hr.
Auckland Transport estimates that reversing speed limits could cost $7.5m – made up of changing signs and road markings in reduced speed areas.
Setting up variable speed limits around schools, which would lower speeds only during pick-up and drop-off times, is estimated to cost $16.7m.
Another $450,000 will need to be spent on advertising, informing people of the speed changes.
We have this inane disconnect in NZ.
On the one hand, Luxon is at CHOGM claiming we are doing everything to lower our climate changing pollution, yet on the other hand we have this Government weaponising our impatience at the traffic gridlock created by mass immigration and the Trucking lobby by lifting speed limits WITHOUT LOOKING AT THE INCREASE IN EMISSIONS LIFTING THE SPEED LIMITS WILL GENERATE!
This is why Luxon is so disingenuous at CHOGM – how can we be doing everything to fight climate change when we are lifting the speed limits without acknowledging the rise in emissions higher speed limits generates OR the increase in deaths?
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Simeon looks like a film extra from a Lord of the rings movie…
Even 15 year olds tower over the Simian.
Less funding for public transport and getting rid of rail enabled ferries is the polar opposite of “ doing everything we can to fight climate change”. Luxon is a liar. Full stop
or stupid or both
Ill conceived policy and even worse photo. Was there a box he could stand on?
But how many climate change advocates still drive around in their own car
with their snobbish refusal to use public transport?
Hypocrits.
The same climate change sycophants who’s carbon footprint will put them in the top 1% in the world, and who refuse to give up their air travel or Koru Club membership.
Another stupid comment. How the hell do you know what transport they take.
He/she/they doesn’t know, just nothing to do, so jumps online and make up crap..
But how many climate change advocates still drive around in their own car
with their snobbish refusal to use public transport?
Hypocrits.
How do you know it’s not an electric car?
I wonder if this isn’t some kind of *Professor Stanley Milgram like experiment whereby a most moronic idea is delivered by a most unfortunate looking little man in authority to test the reasoning capabilities and resistance of we, the public.
Increasing road speeds for the common driver while trying to make it appear as if it’s a good idea is like giving toddlers fish hooks to play with so that’s clearly not the reason behind increasing road speed limits so it begs the question; what is this really about then? What’s actually going on?
I worked with a fellow called Craig Zobel who wrote and directed a film titled ‘Compliance’ which was based on fact. The film highlighted just how susceptible we are to being influenced by self professed ‘ authority figures’. Zobel was fascinated by the rise of roger and his plaything neo-liberalism and of what the perpetrators of neo-liberalism had managed to swindle from us.
Does having a tiny little man-child deciding to increase the speeds cars are able to be legally driven by compliant people who can barely mow the lawn without crashing much less to drive cars faster towards each other with barely two meters separating them seem like a good idea to you? Teaching people how to drive from a psychological perspective seems like a better way to go in my opinion.
What you’re seeing and reading isn’t what this is really about. In my opinion, it’s to test our resolve while being manipulated
‘Compliance’
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compliance_(film)
Compliance is a 2012 American thriller film written and directed by Craig Zobel and starring Ann Dowd, Dreama Walker, Pat Healy, and Bill Camp. The plot of the movie is closely based upon an actual strip search phone call scam that took place in Mount Washington, Kentucky in 2004, although the names of the real-life figures were changed. In both the film and the real-life incident, a caller posing as a police officer convinced a restaurant manager and others to carry out unlawful and intrusive procedures on an innocent employee.[3]
* Professor Stanley Milgram
“Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Milgram
Milgram gained notoriety for his obedience experiment conducted in the basement of Linsly-Chittenden Hall at Yale University in 1961,[3] three months after the start of the trial of German Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem. The experiment found, unexpectedly, that a very high proportion of subjects would fully obey the instructions, albeit reluctantly. Milgram first described his research in a 1963 article in the Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology[4] and later discussed his findings in greater depth in his 1974 book, Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View.[5]
This is incredibly irresponsible.
Having variable speed limits around schools assumes (a) that drivers read the plethora of signs and road markings with which we’re assaulted and distracted on a daily basis (b) that all drivers carry reliable time pieces and (c) that all children enter and exit schools at fixed times. Not so.
No trains or late buses, traffic jams, road works, tardy kids and tardy parents, local walkings, school excursions, sports teams on bikes, can provide quite a constant stream of traffic around schools, which is why everybody should always, always reduce speed in the vicinity of a school.
Simeon needs new grown-up advisors to tell him these things if he doesn’t already know them himself, instead of risking children’s lives in this way.
The important cost is the cost in human lives. If morons kill themselves and diminish their gene pool, well and good, but bad if the undeserving die too. However endangering innocent school children is indefensible, and the Minister needs to justify this.
Sweet. Take the 25 million out of AT management salaries.
why it is not them that has changed the law because he has small penis mentality .Take it out of his and Luxons pay they are are pair of idiots with major brain deficiency .
Far better to teach children to be careful at all times .I am not sure of other areas but the low speed limits were not policed in Chch .We are in a 30 zone but cars go no slower than on other stretchs.
Trevor Nearly ran over a girl from Elmwood School whose mother called to her from the other side of the street and the child ran straight out in front of my car. Fortunately I was driving slowly.
Five wise men and one dumb arse .
The Minister can’t really help it if he is Hobbit sized, but he can do something about being a fuckwit and pathological petrol head.
Most of the CoC would not have the skill to run a Boy Scout chapter or Table Tennis club.
Generally, our speeds are way too slow. Motorways should be 120…150. Inner city could be 50. Larger connection roads like Dominion should be 70 or 80. Those who disagree with faux outrage (most of you even though you’d travel at faster speeds if allowed you hypocrites!)…you just gonna have need to learn how to drive your zimmer frame. If some pedestrians die, all the others will quickly learn not to cross in front of cars. That’s how life works.
Anyone who’s been to SE Asia knows that there’s no reason that you can’t have mixed, very busy pedestrian/cyclist/motorcycle/car/truck traffic traveling at reasonable speeds. You just have to cross the road in a safe manner. Of course the Luxon regime is bent on importing immigrants from India where hundreds of people die from sleeping on the train tracks, so perhaps an expectation of common sense road use is unreasonable.
80 down Dominion Rd in Auckland? Jonzie Seymour likes to know where the idiots are. What’s your address? That’s on the assumption you don’t were a Gestapo uniform.
how big will the pile of dead school kids need to be before this is reversed?
Honey, I shrunk the minister!
A song for the minister
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WjKZbxlaFA
Absolutely untrue. The true cost was the one imposed by the pantywaists of Labour with their absurd virtue signal, for the full cost- more like $50 million- of imposing the idiotic change in the first place.
Any sensible council simply dragged their feet and didn’t implement the change, which limited costs to those caused by the pointless stupid consultations and so on, so there was little actual cost for any well-managed local authority.