NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) has confirmed formal speed reviews for 16 additional state highway sections across New Zealand.

These roads had been scheduled to automatically revert to their previous higher speed limits by July 2025 under the new Land Transport Rule: Setting of Speed Limits 2024.

The reviews will focus on state highways classed as urban connectors.

These are areas where speed limits were reduced since 1 January 2020.

Under the current rules, many of these were due to revert to previous higher limits unless formally reviewed.

Vanessa Browne, NZTA Group General Manager Transport Services, says community feedback has prompted the agency to take a closer look.

“Following publication of the list of auto-reversal locations in January this year, NZTA has received feedback on a number of urban connectors where the community is strongly in support of keeping the current lower speed limits,” she said.

Formal public consultation will open for six weeks in early April 2025.

Locals will be invited to share their views via an online survey.

The consultation process will give communities a say before NZTA makes final decisions based on feedback, technical data and cost-benefit analyses.

For Coasties curious about our patch—there are no Hibiscus Coast roads on the list this time around.

Once consultation wraps up, final decisions on speed limits will be announced later in the year.

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