This Speed Management Plan is being developed by Waikato District Council to support the overall road safety goal of reducing deaths and serious injuries within the Waikato District.

Using the Land Transport Rule: Setting of Speed Limits 2024, Council is creating a Speed Management Plan (SMP). This helps us develop changes to speed management, which includes adjusting speed limits and road engineering treatments.

This means speed limits will be regularly reviewed to identify any proposed speed limit changes and engineering treatments.

The plan sets out a 10-year vision with a 3-year implementation plan, and will take the place of our Speed Limit Bylaw 2011.

As the Road Controlling Authority, Waikato District Council is responsible for speed management on local roads in the district.*

To support the Speed Management Plan, a range of initiatives need to be implemented such as speed limit changes, engineering treatments, enforcement by Police and the installation of speed cameras.

People and goods need to move efficiently around our transport network; however, we also need to see a reduction in deaths and serious injuries on the network.

*New Zealand Transport Agency / Waka Kotahi manages the state highway network.

How you can help us

We would like you to look at the proposed changes for the areas you live in, and travel through, and tell us what you think about them.

Our proposed Plan has a particular focus on marae, schools, community facilities, roads of concern (based on crash data and customer service requests) and roads/areas identified through the Speed Limits Bylaw review in 2022.

By ensuring that everyone feels safe to use our roading network we open up opportunities for a more diverse use, and opportunities for improvement in health such as letting children walk, bike or scooter to school. This allows for easy use of a variety of modes of transport that connect people and communities rather than dividing them

What we’d like to know

The proposed Speed Management Plan has been broken down into wards, then areas within those wards. We are looking for feedback on how you feel about the proposed speed changes.

To make it easier to find the proposed changes that are more relevant to you, we have broken down the changes by area. This means you can view the changes that are more relevant to you. You can comment on a specific road, or section of road, or a wider area. You can find these changes by clicking on the buttons for each ward, below.