Some examples of how the NZ Transport Agency is delivering on the government’s strategic priorities and objectives for land transport are outlined below.
Current limits: Various 60km/h to 100km/h
Proposed limits: Various 50km/h to 80km/h
Road type: Urban corridors
New permanent speed limits have been set and take effect from 10 December 2021.
The four-lane, 102 kilometre Waikato Expressway will be completed in 2022. Find out about the important role Waikato Tainui have played in this project.
As part of the Matamata-Piako District Council’s Innovating Streets project the council trialled Hetana Street as a one-way street as well as other safety improvements such as installing pedestrian crossings and widened curbing to slow down traffic, making it safer for people walking and cycling in the area.
The Avon River Precinct / Te Papa Ōtākaro was the first of seventeen anchor projects in the Christchurch Central Recovery Plan to be taken through design and construction.
During construction of the Huntly section of the Waikato Expressway the Tangata Whenua Working Group, representing Waikato Tainui, were front and centre for all ecological work and had kaitiaki (guardians) on site every day of the project.
Current limit: various from 40km/h to 100km/h
Proposed limit: various from 30km/h to 80km/h
Road type: state highway and side roads
New permanent speed limits have been set and take effect from 2 September 2022.
In 2022 Taupō District Council transformed the Napier/Kiddle/Arrowsmith intersection to a single lane urban roundabout, improving the safety for everyone who travels through the area.
Christchurch City Council introduced uni-directional separated cycleways on both sides of Tennyson Street in 2001.
Completion of a 60km walking and cycling path between Ngāruawāhia and Karapiro in the Waikato will provide significant social, economic and environmental benefits for the region.
