For this post I would encourage people to click on the link to get involved and give comment to the Hamilton’s safe roads team on your thoughts on speed limits. (The question/topics are below) What I can add is three photos of where German is today, the first is from Wuppertal here they have started to move from 30km/h to 20km/h speed limits. (link) to https://yourideas.hamilton.govt.nz/
The topics.
- Should we reduce speeds to 30km/h around schools?
- More 40km/h areas for residential neighbourhoods?
- Should places where people walk and bike get priority?
- Should we have 30km/h where there’s lots of people?
- Should we focus on where we’ll get the biggest safety improvements?
- Similar speeds on similar roads – what do you think?
- Map –show us where you think speed is an issue
- We think community views are important – do you?
The second photo is from Dusseldorf here they are moving down to 10km/h speed limits.
The third is from Koblenz, here the kerbs, parking and road are very similar to what we see in Barton St Hamilton, they choose to give it a 20km/h speed limit.
I’m presently on holiday in Germany this month, the above topics seams very much like Hamilton talking about the change the Germans made last century.