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Speed Limit Reductions Reversed To Bring In Blanket Speed Limits
Sunday, 29 September 2024, 3:01 pm | NZ School Speeds
Raising speed limits will cost more lives. The only reason I can imagine that the National Party have done this is for what they percieve will be political gain, but hopefully it will have the opposite effect. Politicians should be protecting children ... More >>
Minister Of Transport Should Get Tough On Road Safety
Wednesday, 25 September 2024, 9:05 am | NZ School Speeds
“Road safety should be the backbone of Transport, not raising speed limits as they can cost lives. The life of every human being is more significant than building roads,” says Ms Rees and she would like to see Significant lives of Humans a priority, ahead ... More >>
Safe Independent Travel To School Needed To Give Children Hope
Thursday, 1 February 2024, 11:01 am | NZ School Speeds
Children are heading back to school this week and many organisations including NZ School Speeds join other organisations to ask for safer routes for children travelling independently to school. NZ School Speeds advocates for a maximum speed of 30km/h ... More >>
New Zealand Road Toll Is One Of The Highest In The OECD - Govt Needs To Let The Current Speed Management Run Its Course
Friday, 15 December 2023, 9:55 am | NZ School Speeds
Aotearoa (New Zealand) was in the process of improving its speed management with the Land Transport Rule to make roads safer. In comes the new Government who want to get rid of this process and increase speed limits. Instead they should give it ... More >>
Suggestion Of Removing Road Safety Strategies Is Criminal
Tuesday, 26 September 2023, 6:56 am | NZ School Speeds
Road safety should be removed from politics, now it looks like a political party could come into power and remove any benefits that Aotearoa’s society have gained. National Party MP Simeon Brown claims that if they are elected they “will end speed ... More >>
Vision Zero Needs 30km/h Outside Every School
Monday, 21 November 2022, 10:17 am | NZ School Speeds
Contending with cars driving at variable and often high speeds during heavy school time traffic, distractions from other children and no safe place to cross. Add to that illegal parking, cars turning and distracted driving. Children have to navigate ... More >>
For Road Safety Week Our Leaders Need To Be Road Safety Heroes
Friday, 6 May 2022, 10:34 am | NZ School Speeds
Next week is Road Safety week, from 9th to 15th May and the search is on for Road Safety Heroes. Lucinda Rees from NZ School Speeds would like to challenge the Government and Waka Kotahi to be super heroes, by tweaking some details of the Setting of Speed ... More >>
Introduce Laws For School Child Climate Action
Wednesday, 13 April 2022, 9:27 am | NZ School Speeds
We have been given dire forecasts that climate change will impact us all - especially children - unless there is urgent action towards lowering our carbon footprint. NZ School Speeds has for years been asking for consistent 30 km/h speed limits outside ... More >>
Bring In Laws To Make Childrens Travel To School Safe
Monday, 31 January 2022, 9:24 am | NZ School Speeds
Much of Europe embraces 20 or 30 km/h speed limits outside schools, and enforces strict laws if these limits are broken. These limits encourage children to walk and cycle by making these activities safe for our most vulnerable road users. As children ... More >>
Reluctance On Safe Walking Or Cycling To School Is Climate Change Inaction
Monday, 22 November 2021, 9:12 am | NZ School Speeds
All children should be able to travel independently to school. Making it possible for every child to walk or cycle to school is taking action on climate change. In New Zealand, independent journeys can be dangerous as there are no mandatory passing ... More >>
Drivers Slowing Down Outside Schools For Road Safety
Friday, 21 May 2021, 12:19 pm | NZ School Speeds
It is Road Safety Week and the advocate group NZ School Speeds, with the help of year 7/8 students from rural Swannanoa Primary School in North Canterbury, have been checking what speeds vehicles are travelling outside the school. The legal speed ... More >>
Children Set To Become Priority Outside Schools?
Tuesday, 27 April 2021, 8:32 am | NZ School Speeds
Schoolchildren - our most vulnerable road users - are set to benefit from proposed changes to lower speed limits on roads outside schools to a maximum of 30 km/h for urban schools and 60 km/h for rural schools. NZ School Speeds, a road safety organisation ... More >>
Call To Bring Forward Cyclist Passing Gap Following Death
Friday, 3 April 2020, 10:23 am | NZ School Speeds
Just after midday a cyclist was killed on a straight road on a clear day, after being hit by a van in North Canterbury. Lucinda Rees from NZ School Speeds is asking for the mandatory cyclist/vulnerable road user passing gap, which is in consultation, ... More >>
No Road to Zero for School Children
Thursday, 23 January 2020, 9:26 am | NZ School Speeds
Children will soon be heading back to school. Last year the Ministry of Transport announced ‘Road to Zero’1 suggesting this will make roads safer for children to walk and bike. Lucinda Rees from NZ School Speeds, lobbying for safe speed limits ... More >>
Treat all children the same, especially outside schools
Thursday, 28 November 2019, 10:51 am | NZ School Speeds
The Ministry of Transport has announced that school zones in urban areas can be reduced to 30km/h speed limits and the maximum in rural areas will be 60km/h at peak times. Lucinda Rees from NZ School Speeds has been campaigning for 30km/h outside ... More >>
Give Streets Back to Children
Thursday, 1 August 2019, 10:22 am | NZ School Speeds
Following the coroners report about the death of 6 year old Carla Neems, the road safety group NZ School Speeds wants school aged children to be allowed to walk or cycle to school. Instead we need safer roading infrastructure for our most vulnerable ... More >>
Frustrations increase over lack of road safety measures
Thursday, 9 May 2019, 2:59 pm | NZ School Speeds
Road Safety week is coming to a close. What started with a road toll of just over 140 people, has now escalated to 150. “That is 150 families and their communities who are having to deal with the an unnecessary. These individuals were doing something ... More >>
Speaking up About Road Safety for School Children
Friday, 3 May 2019, 9:42 am | NZ School Speeds
Safe routes for school children were promised before the last election by the then Green Party Transport Spokesperson, Julie Anne Genter now our road safety minister. A few years on, routes to schools remain unsafe and there are still speed limits ... More >>
Make Road Safety a Priority for Children
Thursday, 28 February 2019, 1:37 pm | NZ School Speeds
Its school fair time at Swannanoa School on Sunday 3rd March and a 30km/h speed limit will be in force outside the school. This may not come as surprise to many, but this school is on a 100km/h rural road and this speed limit is not in force when children ... More >>
Postcodes to decide safe routes to school
Wednesday, 26 September 2018, 10:42 am | NZ School Speeds
“Excessive speed limits outside schools in New Zealand’s rural areas are far too common. The 30km/h sign that is to protect road workers is discarded on the ground at the entrance to Swannanoa School zone. Children have to cross the road to get ... More >>
