Over the past few years there have been a number of crashes on our rural roads. We have also received community feedback with concerns about the speed and safety of these roads. Our first focus is to
make speed limit changes on some rural roads that will bring a reduction in
crashes that would have resulted in serious injuries and deaths.
Some of our rural roads are busy arterial routes. Speed reductions will have a small impact on most people; however, the impact may be more significant for businesses who make many trips over a day. We need to ensure main routes are safe, but also maintain reasonable speeds and travel times for road users.
Parts of some rural roads below are narrow, have a curved alignment, or sight restrictions. Another thing we need to consider is that if we were to keep speed limits on these roads at 100km/h we would need to undertake major and costly engineering improvements to make these roads safe. This is not to say that we will not be making roading improvements on rural roads in the future.
Proposed changes to speed limits
All speeds limits shown in the map and detailed in the street-by-street descriptions below are in km/h.
