Positioning of speed limit signs queried

COMMENTING on changes to speed limits (ODT, 11.5.22), Jeanine Benson, Dunedin City Council group manger transport states: “We position signage in areas where there is an obvious change in the roading states environment, such as the approach to a built up area”.

She mentions recent changes at Port Chalmers.

The reasons for positioning of the signs on Beach St and Peninsula Beach Rd, Port Chalmers, are far from obvious.

The speed limit on George St (SH88) was reduced by Waka Kotahi to

40kmh.

The end of SH88 is at the level crossing near the A Shed and the Dunedin City Council has placed a 50kmh sign just over the railway line.

After about one kilometre winding past the log storage area and the parking area outside the yacht club, the speed limit is then reduced to 30kmh.

An obvious solution would have been to maintain the 40kmh limit until the previously established 30kmh zone of Peninsula Beach Rd.

This section of road needs reminder signs or speed restraints because in our experience, as regular walkers, few drivers follow the speed limit.

We frequently see vehicles, usually utes, speeding along the road scattering the walkers and cyclists who enjoy the tranquillity of Back Beach and its Poetry Trail. John and Anna Holmes

St Leonards