Speed limit reductions in the eastern suburbs
This is my request to NZTA under the Official Information Act:
Request under the Official Information Act
From: Bill Porter (billporter@y7mail.com)
To: official.correspondence@nzta.govt.nz
Date: Wednesday, 18 January 2023 at 01:33 pm NZDT
Dear Sir / Madam,
In relation to the decrease in the speed limit on Aviemore Drive in Auckland last year, I would like to request the following information:
1/ The date on which the decision to reduce the speed limit from 60 kph to 50 kph was made.
2/ The minutes of the above meeting.
3/ The date on which the decision to reduce the speed limit was executed.
4/ For the 5 years prior to the date the limit was reduced, please supply:
The number and dates of fatal accidents
The number and dates of accidents causing injury requiring hospitalisation (not including the above).
The number and dates of all other accidents.
5/ For the interval after the introduction of the reduced speed limit last year, please supply:
The number and dates of fatal accidents
The number and dates of accidents causing injury requiring hospitalisation (not including the above).
The number and dates of all other accidents.
6/ What reduction in the number of annual fatal accidents would you consider to be a success?
7/ What reduction in the number of annual accidents causing non-fatal injuries would you consider to be a success?
8 What reduction in the annual number of all other accidents would you consider to be a success?
9/ What reduction in the annual number of fatal accidents would you consider makes this decision a failure?
10/ What reduction in the annual number of accidents causing non-fatal injuries would you consider makes this decision a failure to be a failure?
11/ What reduction in the annual number of all other accidents would you consider makes this decision to be a failure
12/ If there is no significant reduction in the number of fatal, non-fatal, and overall accidents, would you consider this decision to be a failure?
13/ What consultation efforts were made, if any, with the good citizens of the Eastern Suburbs before reducing this limit?
14/ What other reductions in speed limits are currently being proposed, or in the process of being implemented, in the Eastern Suburbs
Please supply this information within 20 working days, in accordance with the Act.
Best Regards, William Porter
Email: billporter@y7mail.com
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