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    LGOIMA Request Details

    Date Received:03/12/2024
    Date Responded:05/12/2024
    Requested Information:Information on effect of new Government speed setting rule
    Response:
    The information you have requested is below, the MDC submission is in this link – Council Submission Setting of speed limits 2024 
    Any costs modelled or actualised necessary to meet new requirements under the Government’s new Land Transport Rule: Setting of Speed Limits 2024
    In the 2024-27 National Land Transport Programme Manawatū District Council (MDC) had submitted to the New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) a request for $115,428.00 to implement the signage required to implement the Land Transport Rule: Setting of Speed Limits 2022. 

    NZTA declined MDC’s submission for speed management funding for the 2024-27 period.  At the time of writing MDC does not have a budget to implement the Land Transport Rule: Setting of Speed Limits 2024.

    On 3 December 2024 NZTA advised the Approved Organisations (AOs) can apply for funding from the National Land Transport Fund, during the 2024-27 National Land Transport Programme (NLTP), towards costs associated with implementing the changes necessary to give effect to directions set out under Land Transport Rule: Setting of Speed Limits 2024.

    MDC has not yet estimated costs to meet the requirements under the Government’s Land Transport Rule: Setting of Speed Limits 2024. 

    Any crashes, deaths and serious injuries modelled as a result of speed limit changes to meet requirements under the Government’s new Land Transport Rule: Setting of Speed Limits 2024
    MDC have not yet estimated the safety impacts of the change requirements under the Government’s Land Transport Rule: Setting of Speed Limits 2024.

    The Land Transport Rule: Setting of Speed Limits 2024, for a proposed Permanent Speed Limit now requires every road considered to have a Cost Benefit Disclosure Statement supplied (guidance yet to be provided by NZTA).

    This Cost Benefit Disclosure Statement must contain:

    1 Estimated safety impacts of the change
    The estimated safety impacts must include a prior 5-year crash history (severity and count) and a projected post implementation crash prediction (averaged over the next 5 years) because of each road’s proposed speed limit change.

    Note: This prediction does not include the ‘fears’ that a crash may happen if we do not change the speed limit; only that crash frequency / severity would be expected to reduce based on statistical models. Again, guidance from NZTA will need to be forthcoming here…

    2 Estimated travel time impacts
    The travel time impacts must include a mean operating speed (pre-implementation) and predicted mean operating speed (post-implementation). This impact must be displayed for both an individual journey time of a vehicle, and a cumulative journey time impact for all vehicles using the road per annum.

    3 Estimated implementation costs
    AOs must also explain in the consultation documentation why we are looking to change the speed limit, rather than applying any other type of speed management intervention.

    This information is required for every road proposed. This is for the public to view as part of the Consultation Documentation on ‘an internet site’ for a minimum of 6 weeks. 

    This means that the previous Speed Management Plan that was prepared for consultation will not be accepted by NZTA under the Land Transport Rule: Setting of Speed Limits 2024.

    AOs must also ‘make reasonable efforts’ to approach any other party deemed to have an interest in the proposed changes, detail on specifics are vague in the new legislation. RCAs must also include a summary of all written submissions received under any consultation (again, so that it may be published on ‘an internet site’). AOs must also show how they have taken these submissions into account in the final proposal / plan submitted for certification by the Director of Land Transport at NZTA.

    Therefore, another consultation would need to be undertaken detailing the above (and other requirements set by the legislation).

    Any crashes, deaths and serious injuries modelled from changing to the previous speed rule - Land Transport Rule: Setting of Speed Limits 2022
    The safety impacts of the Land Transport Rule: Setting of Speed Limits 2022 were not modelled. This was not required as the rule dictated blanket treatments based on prescribed criteria.

    To achieve the previous Road to Zero target of a 40% reduction in DSIs, it was estimated that MDC would need a reduction of at least 22 DSIs by 2030.

    A total of 2,613 crashes throughout the Manawatū District were reported between 2013 and 2022,
    including 62 deaths, 280 serious injuries and 1,045 minor injuries. Over this period the number of
    death and serious injuries steadily increased (as shown in Figure 1). This is also reflected in an increase in the 5-year rolling average of deaths and serious injuries that as at 31 December 2022 was 37. 
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    Figure 1 Deaths and Serious Injuries in Manawatū.

     

     

    Any submission your organisation prepared for the consultation on the draft Land Transport Rule: Setting of Speed Limits 2024, and any feedback otherwise given to the Ministry of Transport, Waka Kotahi, the Minister of Transport or his office on the Rule or the new approach to setting speed limits

    A copy of Manawatū District Council's submission to Te Manatū Waka Ministry of Transport on the draft Land Transport Rule: Setting of Speed Limits 2024 is in the link above. 





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