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Land Transport Rule: Setting of Speed Limits 2017 and Land Transport Rule: Traffic Control Devices 2004—Rural School Turning Vehicle Hazard Variable Speed Limit—Waipa District Council School Variable Speed Limits

Pursuant to clause 5.2(1) of the Land Transport Rule: Setting of Speed Limits 2017, clause 4.4(4) of the Land Transport Rule: Traffic Control Devices 2004 and a delegation from the NZ Transport Agency, I, Glenn Bunting, Manager Network Safety, approve a variable speed limit in the Waipa District at the schools described in Schedule 1, in accordance with the conditions set out in this notice:

Conditions

1. Variable speed limit

The Waipa District Council may set a variable speed limit of 60km/h at the schools listed in Schedule 1, to manage the safety of all road users when vehicles are turning at the school, or when there is pedestrian or cycle activity on the road outside the school. When the variable speed limit is operating, the speed limit must be displayed on variable speed limit signs. When the variable speed limit is not operating, the variable signs must either display the permanent speed limit or be blank.

2. Length of variable speed limit

At the locations described in Schedule 1 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 the variable speed limit on side roads may be shorter than 300 metres.

3. Periods of operation

The variable speed limit may operate for a maximum period of:

  1. 35 minutes before the start of school, until the start of school;
  2. 20 minutes at the end of school, beginning no earlier than 5 minutes before the end of school; and
  3. 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.

4. Signs

Speed limit signs that comply with the Land Transport Rule: Traffic Control Devices 2004 must be installed to identify the section of road subject to the variable speed limit.

5. Bylaw

The Waipa District Council must set the variable speed limit by making a bylaw in accordance with the Land Transport Rule: Setting of Speed Limits 2017.

Schedule 1

Road Controlling Authority

School

Road

Variable Speed Limit

Waipa District Council

Koromatua School

Koromatua Road from a point 270 metres west of Wood Road to a point 570 metres west of Wood Road

60km/h (permanent speed limit 80km/h)

Waipa District Council

Kaipaki School

Kaipaki Road from a point 100 metres west of Goodwin Road to a point 80 metres east of McEldownie Road.

Goodwin Road from Kaipaki Road to a point 60 metres south of Kaipaki Road

McEldownie Road from Kaipaki Road to a point 60 metres north-east of Kaipaki Road

60km/h (permanent speed limit 80km/h)

Signed at Wellington this 11th day of June 2019.

GLENN BUNTING, Manager Network Safety, NZ Transport Agency.