Pursuant to clause 6.1 of Land Transport Rule: Setting of Speed Limits 2003 and a delegation from the NZ Transport Agency, I, Glenn Bunting, Network Manager, approve a variable speed limit at the schools listed in the Schedule, where there is a turning vehicle hazard, in accordance with the conditions set out in this notice:
Conditions
1. Variable speed limit
A road controlling authority may set a variable speed limit of 60km/h or 70km/h, as specified in the Schedule, to manage the hazard caused by turning vehicles at the schools listed in the Schedule.
2. Length of variable speed limit
The variable speed limit on the main road on which the school is located must be a minimum length of 300 metres, unless this condition is impractical, but should not be longer than 500 metres. The length of variable speed limit on side roads may be shorter than 300 metres.
3. Periods of operation
The 60km/h or 70km/h speed limit may operate for a maximum period of:
(a) 35 minutes before the start of school, until the start of school; and
(b) 20 minutes at the end of school, beginning no earlier than 5 minutes before the end of school; and
(c) 10 minutes at any time when vehicles are entering or leaving the school grounds or there is pedestrian or cycle activity on the road outside the school, at schools where all approaches to the variable speed limit are controlled by "Variable speed limit (rural schools turning vehicle hazard)" signs.
4. Signs
(a) Signs that comply with the "Rural Schools Variable Speed Limit (Turning Vehicle Hazard) Trial" notice published in the New Zealand Gazette, 17 May 2012, No. 55, page 1606, must be installed on every approach to a variable speed limit at a school listed in the Schedule as follows:
(i) At least one "Variable speed limit (rural schools turning vehicle hazard)" sign on each approach to the variable speed limit on the main road outside the school and on each approach on a major side road that intersects with the road controlled with a variable speed limit; and
(ii) at least one "Variable speed limit - fixed (rural schools turning vehicle hazard)" sign on each approach on a minor side road that intersects with the road controlled with a variable speed limit.
(b) R1-1, R1-1.1 or R1-3 signs that comply with Land Transport Rule: Traffic Control Devices 2004 must be installed at the end of the variable speed limit on every road that leaves the variable speed limit.
5. Bylaw
A road controlling authority must set a variable speed limit for a school listed in the Schedule by making a bylaw in accordance with Land Transport Rule: Setting of Speed Limits 2003.
6. Savings
A variable speed limit that was set in accordance with the "Variable Speed Limit at Rural Schools (Turning Vehicle Hazard)" notice published in the New Zealand Gazette, 17 May 2012, No. 55, page 1605 (as amended1) remains in force until it is replaced by the variable speed limit specified in the Schedule in this notice.
7. Revocation
The "Variable Speed Limit at Rural Schools (Turning Vehicle Hazard)" notice, published in the New Zealand Gazette, 17 May 2012, No. 55, page 1605, is revoked.
Schedule
Road Controlling Authority School Road Local authority Permanent Speed Limit Variable Speed Limit
Auckland Transport Ararimu School Ararimu Road
Steel Road Auckland Council 80km/h 60km/h
Auckland Transport Dairy Flat School Dairy Flat Highway Auckland Council 80km/h 60km/h
Auckland Transport Puni School Aka Aka Road
Waiuku Road Auckland Council 80km/h 60km/h
Horowhenua District Council Opiki School Poplar Road
Tane Road Horowhenua District Council 100km/h 60km/h
Invercargill City Council Myross Bush School Mill Road North Invercargill City Council 100km/h 70km/h
Matamata-Piako District Council Elstow-Waihou Combined School Bowler Road
Mellon Road
Ngutumanga Road
Tautiti Road Matamata-Piako District Council 100km/h 70km/h
NZ Transport Agency Amisfield School State Highway 1 South Waikato District Council 80km/h 60km/h
NZ Transport Agency Kaihere School State Highway 27 Hauraki District Council 100km/h 60km/h
NZ Transport Agency Kai Iwi School State Highway 3 Wanganui District Council 100km/h 70km/h
NZ Transport Agency Kaimai School State Highway 29 Western Bay of Plenty District Council 100km/h 70km/h
NZ Transport Agency Newstead School State Highway 26 Waikato District Council 80km/h 60km/h
NZ Transport Agency Opiki School State Highway 56 Horowhenua District Council 80km/h 60km/h
NZ Transport Agency Opoutere School State Highway 25 Thames-Coromandel District Council 100km/h 60km/h
NZ Transport Agency Pahoia School State Highway 2 Western Bay of Plenty District Council 100km/h 70km/h
NZ Transport Agency Paki Paki School State Highway 50A Hastings District Council 80km/h 60km/h
NZ Transport Agency Pukehou School State Highway 2 Central Hawke's Bay District Council 100km/h 70km/h
NZ Transport Agency Pyes Pa Road School State Highway 36 Western Bay of Plenty District Council 80km/h 60km/h
NZ Transport Agency Te Uku School State Highway 23 Waikato District Council 80km/h 60km/h
NZ Transport Agency Waikuku School State Highway 1 Waimakariri District Council 80km/h 60km/h
South Waikato District Council Amisfield School Dumfries Road
Lochmaben Road
Moffat Road South Waikato District Council 80km/h 60km/h
Waimakariri District Council Ashley School Boundary Road
Fawcetts Road High Street
Marshmans Road Waimakariri District Council 80km/h 60km/h
Waimakariri District Council Loburn School Hodgsons Road Waimakariri District Council 80km/h 60km/h
Waimakariri District Council Swannanoa School Tram Road Waimakariri District Council 100km/h 60km/h
Wanganui District Council Westmere School Francis Road Rapanui Road Wanganui District Council 100km/h 70km/h
Western Bay of Plenty District Council Pahoia School Esdaile Road Pahoia Road Western Bay of Plenty District Council 100km/h 70km/h
Signed at Wellington this 4th day of June 2013.
GLENN BUNTING, Network Manager.
Annotation
1Variable Speed Limit at Rural Schools (Turning Vehicle Hazard) Amendment and Rural Schools Variable Speed Limit (Turning Vehicle Hazard) Trial Amendment, New Zealand Gazette, 23 August 2012, No. 101, page 2825