$25 million cost for higher speed virtue signal
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.
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?
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.
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.