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A CELEBRATION OF HUMANITY Helen Manson with husband Tim and children Hope, Eva and Maz. The Pakuranga humanitarian photographer has commenced a North Island tour. More, page 3
SPEED LIMITS REJECTED By CHRIS HARROWELL
Management Plan 2024-2017, ‘Katoa Ka Ora’. he Howick Local Board is The plan is expected to be pubasking Auckland Transport licly consulted on by the middle (AT) to change the speed lim- of this year. Background informaits on a group of busy local roads tion states Auckland Council and back to what they were previously. AT have adopted the Vision Zero The board was asked during its goal of eliminating road transportrecent business meeting to provide related deaths and serious injuries formal feedback on the approach on the city’s road network by 2050. Support Kiwi kids with for developing Auckland’s Speed AT is conducting a phased
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review of speed limits with three phases completed so far. As the Times has previously reported, the speed limits on a large number of east Auckland roads have been reduced including on sections of Te Irirangi Drive, Ti Rakau Drive, Botany Road, and Pakuranga Road. Reductions have also been implemented on roads in Cockle Bay, Dannemora, Flat Bush,
and East Tamaki. Speaking to the item during the board’s business meeting, member David Collings said AT has a speed reduction team that “comes out and looks at where they can reduce speed”. “The problem is they put the cart before the horse. I prefer the approach we used to take, which was if there were issues around certain streets such as
blind corners, or there were streets with speeding, or incidents at intersections, the traffic engineers come out and do an assessment and put in provisions to make it safer, so there’s a benefit. “There is no proven benefit with just a blanket thing that, ‘we’re just going to slow everyone down and we’ll have fewer injuries’. Continued on page 2
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