Bay Harbour: June 30, 2021

Wednesday June 30 2021 Bay Harbour News
• By Samantha Mythen
SPEED LIMITS on Lyttelton’s
streets are likely to be lowered
from 50km/h to 40km/h in a bid
to make the area safer.
This is part of a wider Banks
Peninsula speed limit review
project, with many more roads
in Banks Peninsula also likely to
see changes.
The Banks Peninsula Community
Board approved the
city council’s recommendations
to make these changes to road
speed limits on Monday.
As part of its discussions, the
board has requested Norwich
Quay, which is State Highway
74, also be reduced to 40km/h
for consistency in the port. The
decision on its speed limit lies
with Waka Kotahi New Zealand
Transport Agency, separate to
Lyttelton’s other streets, due to
its state highway status.
During the meeting, Lyttelton
subdivision board member
Tyrone Fields said the speed
reduction of 10km/h would
only add a few more seconds to
driving time.
He also mentioned people usually
cannot drive at 50km/h due
to hazards.
Lyttelton Community Association
chairman Ken Maynard
said the decision would be a
poor use of resources.
“People don’t drive to the
speed limit in the narrow streets
likely be reduced to 40km/h.
anyway,” he said.
“But the badly behaved drivers
will break the rules anyway. This
is just legislating what should be
people’s good behaviour.”
Lyttelton Harbour
Business Association
chairwoman Vicki
Tahau Paton agreed
and said it is difficult to
drive along some of Lyttelton’s
streets at even
40km/h.
Community board chairwoman
Tori Peden said the project has
been a several stage approach,
with the motive behind it to
increase road user safety in the
multi-hazard areas, as well as providing
a more consistent approach
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Speed limit review for peninsula
SPEED REDUCTION: Lyttelton street speed limits will
Ken Maynard
to actual operating speeds.
The same proposal as Lyttelton
has been approved for Cass Bay
streets.
Six hundred meters of
Marine Drive through
Charteris Bay will be
reduced to 50km/h.
A section of Waipapa
Ave in Diamond
Harbour will be set at
30km/h.
The Purau to Port Levy
route will be lowered
from 100km/h to 60km/h, with
the reduced speed introduced
throughout Port Levy, with
40km/h through populated
areas.
It will be a 60km/h speed limit
for the Port Levy to Pigeon Bay
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route. Pigeon Bay itself will have
both 60km/h and 40km/h speed
limits introduced.
Kukupa, near Pigeon Bay, will
have a speed limit reduction to
40km/h from 100km/h.
Birdlings Flat, Kaitorete Spit,
Little River and Okuti Valley
roads’ will also be set to 60km/h
and 40km/h depending on the
specific road.
The Western Valley Rd route,
Puaha Valley, and roads along
the Southern Bays will all be set
at 60km/h.
Akaroa and Akaroa’s
backcountry roads will be set
at either 40km/h or 60km/h
depending on the specific street
or road involved, including a
standard 40km/h through the
village itself.
The initiative has been
undertaken to support the Waka
Kotahi New Zealand Transport
Agency speed management
guide and its overall road safety
strategy for the next decade.
Consultation on the speed
limit of State Highway 75 and
73 between Christchurch and
Akaroa is currently open.
NEWS 5
Centres to
remain open at
reduced capacity
• By Samantha Mythen
THE AKAROA and Lyttelton
service centres will remain open
as decreed in the city council’s
10-year budget.
During consultations on the
city council’s draft Long Term
Plan, it was recommended that
$24,000 be allocated annually to
each of the centres.
This would allow face-to-face
customer service to continue at
half its current capacity.
Said Banks Peninsula Community
Board chairwoman
Tori Peden: “It is great for the
communities to still have these
face-to-face services.
“We are happy with the compromise.”
She said the decision also
meant the community board,
Akaroa community and city
council could look at business
models to help create a service
hub in the village’s service centre
building.
The recommendation comes
after 113 submitters opposed the
service centres’ closure.
Said Christchurch Mayor
Lianne Dalziel: “We have listened
to our community. Some very
clear themes came through in
the submissions which have
influenced the recommendations
I am making.”
SAFER SPEED REVIEW
Christchurch to Akaroa
Have your say on safer speeds
Speed on impact determines if the people in a crash are
killed, injured or walk away unharmed.
Through Road to Zero – New Zealand’s road safety
strategy – we’re working towards a future where no-one
is killed or seriously injured on our roads.
Christchurch to Akaroa is Canterbury’s highest-risk route
– in terms of personal safety – and in New Zealand’s
top 10% where we can make the greatest difference in
reducing road deaths and serious injuries.
Do traffic speeds affect how you use the road?
Come along to a pop-up event and have your say.
Feedback closes on 27 July 2021.
Pop-up events
Te Hapua Halswell Centre
Thursday 1 July, 3–6pm
Tai Tapu Hotel
Tuesday 6 July, 10am–1pm
Little River School
Tuesday 6 July, 3–6pm
The Gaiety Hall, Akaroa
Saturday 10 July, 11am–2pm
Head to www.nzta.govt.nz/chchtoakaroa
to have your say online or email us
chchtoakaroaspeeds@nzta.govt.nz
nzta.govt.nz