School Safety Project
School Zone Speeds
As part of the Land Transport Rule: Setting of Speed Limits 2022, which came into effect on 19 May 2022, we're lowering the speed limits in school zones across our district.
We're proposing to change the permanent speed to 30 km/hr for urban school zones and 60 km/hr for rural school zones. During June we asked for feedback from our school communities and properties that are within the school zones impacted. Using their feedback we've made some minor amendments to the original proposal.
The proposed speed limits and zones can be viewed by clicking on the below school names.
- Avon School
- Makahu School
- Midhirst School
- Pembroke School
- St Joseph’s Catholic School
- Stratford High School
- Stratford Primary School
- Taranaki Diocesan
We are working with Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency to reduce the speed around the remaining four schools in our district (Hiuakama School, Marco School, Ngaere School, and Toko School). Waka Kotahi will manage the speed limits for these schools.
We've sought feedback on these changes in two stages:
Stage One – Engagement with the school community and residents identified as being directly affected with the proposed speed changes (June 2022). If you live in one of the above school zones you would have received a letter asking for your feedback on the proposed speed change for that school. Feedback for this part of consultation closed on 30 June 2022.
Stage Two – Consultation with the wider community on all school speed changes (August 2022). After receiving feedback from our school community and residents, we reviewed our proposals and asked the wider community to provide feedback on all school zone speed limits at once.
Why are we doing this?
Our vision is to improve the safety of streets near school entrances for all road users, increase active travel to school and reduce congestion on our roads.
Some of the issues we are experiencing around our schools are:
- Driving behaviour outside the school that is often illegal and puts kids at risk
- Near misses that make walking and cycling feel unsafe
- Safety issues that are a key barrier to active school travel
- Driving behaviour outside the school that contributes to congestion and queueing. Which impacts on other road users.
For more information about this project you can contact us on 06 765 6099 or email staylor@stratford.govt.nz