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Speaker 1: Eether Do for cl government has announced it's going to

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Speaker 1: be reversing the speed limit reductions that the last government

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Speaker 1: put in place. So speed limits around schools will be

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Speaker 1: thirty k's in urban areas, they'll be sixty k's in

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Speaker 1: rural areas. They'll be variable. New and existing roads of

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Speaker 1: national significance could have a speed limit of one hundred

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Speaker 1: and ten k's per hour if they've been built to

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Speaker 1: high safety standards, and one hundred and twenty k's per

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Speaker 1: hower is an option as well, Sime and Brown as

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Speaker 1: the transportman is down with us now, hey samen good evening,

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Speaker 1: where would we see one hundred and twenty k road?

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Speaker 2: Well, this is a proposal to say, well, actually, when

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Speaker 2: we're building these new roads of national significance, should we

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Speaker 2: be building them to a standard of one hundred and

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Speaker 2: twenty Currently we've been building them to one hundred and ten.

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Speaker 2: But actually we were on Dart, New Zealanders, whether one

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Speaker 2: hundred and twenty would be an option that they consider

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Speaker 2: should for those roads to help improve the efficiency of

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Speaker 2: our transport network to help people get where they need

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Speaker 2: to go quickly and safely.

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Speaker 1: I mean, obviously we're going to say yes what do

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Speaker 1: you need to do to make it to make it

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Speaker 1: safe enough for one twenty K's.

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Speaker 2: Well, well, basically, the rules around the safety would be

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Speaker 2: the width of the lanes, the barriers that would be

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Speaker 2: put in place, the amount of space on the booms.

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Speaker 2: Those are the type of things the agency takes into account.

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Speaker 2: We're also making it clear though, that when a road

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Speaker 2: is built to that sort of standard, we actually expect

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Speaker 2: the speed limit to be in place from when the

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Speaker 2: road opens, not because of the bureaucratic way the current

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Speaker 2: rule works. It has to go through a very long

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Speaker 2: and arduous process to actually be checked to make sure

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Speaker 2: it is our viewers. If it's built to that standard,

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Speaker 2: it should be had that speed limit from the day

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Speaker 2: it's opened, not a couple of years later.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Cool. If we're frustrated by any of the speed

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Speaker 1: limits that have been imposed on us in the last government,

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Speaker 1: can we assume that they will automatically go back to

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Speaker 1: where they were.

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Speaker 2: So what we're doing is we're basically having a reversal

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Speaker 2: in terms of all of those local roads, all of

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Speaker 2: those those arterial roads are all going to be reversed back.

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Speaker 2: All those state highways, they are going to be reversed

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Speaker 2: back to what they were. We will be making sure

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Speaker 2: that in terms of speed limits around SCO though, where

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Speaker 2: there is drew peck up and drop off times, it

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Speaker 2: will be a slower speed limit.

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Speaker 1: Because it actually variable though.

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Speaker 2: It will have to be variable only, so it'll be

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Speaker 2: a slower speed limit between I think eight o'clock and

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Speaker 2: nine to thirty in the morning and between two thirty

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Speaker 2: and four in the afternoon, rather than being all around

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Speaker 2: the clock, which is how it's currently done at the moment,

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Speaker 2: where you're seeing thirty kilometers prow being put in suburbs

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Speaker 2: across our cities, and you know, you try to home

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Speaker 2: at ten o'clock at night and it's still thirty kilometers

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Speaker 2: prayer and by the way, no one's actually following those rules,

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Speaker 2: and you know what you end up having, and I've

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Speaker 2: witnessed it myself, is even and the buses are going

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Speaker 2: over thirty k's per hour because they're trying to keep

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Speaker 2: up to their schedules. So the reality is we've got

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Speaker 2: to take a common sense approach to this rather than

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Speaker 2: a blanket approach just to simply slow people down, which

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Speaker 2: is how the last government is doing. Enough.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I can't even hide my excitement. Thank you

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Speaker 1: so much, Simmy and Brown, Transport Minister. For more from

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