Notice Type
Authorities/Other Agencies of State
Notice Title

Bylaw Regulating the Speed of Vehicles on

State Highways in Transit New Zealand
Regions 7 and 8
Pursuant to section 61 (3) of the Transit New Zealand Act 1989 and section 72 (1) (j) of the Transport Act 1962, Transit New Zealand hereby makes the following bylaw.
B y l a w
1. Title and commencement-This bylaw may be cited
as the Transit New Zealand (Speed of Vehicles on State Highways) Bylaw 2003/9 and shall come into force 28 days after its publication in the New Zealand Gazette.
2. Interpretation-In this bylaw:
"vehicle" has the same meaning as in the Transport Act 1962.
3. Limiting of speed of vehicles on State highways-No person shall drive or take or permit to be driven or taken any vehicle at a speed exceeding 80 kilometres per hour on the sections of State highway described in the Schedule to this bylaw.
Schedule
4. That section of State Highway No. 3 that is:
(a) At Bell Block, from a point 10 metres west of Jersey Place to a point 200 metres east of Vickers Road (Route Position 229/5.21 to Route Position 229/7.31); a distance of 2.10 kilometres.
(b) At Wanganui, from a point 110 metres south of Heads Road extending in a generally south-easterly direction to a point 200 metres south of Wikitoria Road (Route Position 384/17.13 to Route Position 402/0.20); a distance of 1.16 kilometres.
5. That section of State Highway No. 3 that is at Ashhurst, from a point 340 metres west of York Street to a point 630 metres east of Cambridge Avenue (Route Position 474/12.8 to Route Position 474/14.1); a distance of 1.3 kilometres.
6. That section of State Highway No. 4 that is at National Park, from a point 140 metres north of Carroll Street to a point 200 metres south of State Highway No. 47 (Route Position 94/19.08 to Route Position 114/0.20); a distance of 897 metres.
7. That section of State Highway No. 45 that is at Omata, commencing at a point 115 metres north of Beach Road and proceeding in a generally southerly direction to a point 430 metres south of Sealy Road (Route Position 0/6.90 to Route Position 0/8.20); a distance of 1.3 kilometres.
8. That section of State Highway No. 57 that is at Palmerston North, commencing at the intersection of Aokautere Drive and Summerhill Drive, proceeding in a generally north-easterly direction along Aokautere Drive
to the intersection with Moonshine Valley Road (Route Position 50/0.00 to Route Position 50/1.88); a distance of 1.88 kilometres.
This bylaw was made by resolution passed by the Transit New Zealand Authority at a meeting held in Wellington on 9 April 2003.
Dated at Wellington this 15th day of April 2003.
Signed on behalf of Transit New Zealand by:
J. H. VAN BARNEVELD, National Highway Manager, Transit New Zealand.