24 Jan 2020

Campaigner calls for fast-tracking school speed restrictions

From Morning Report, 6:16 am on 24 January 2020

A child safety campaigner is calling for speed restrictions outside schools to be fast-tracked.

The government has committed to doing this over the next decade, with speed limits as low as 30km/h outside urban schools, and 60km/h outside rural schools.

One school that already has a lower speed limit, in this case 40km/h, is Owairaka District School in Mount Roskill.

The schools principal, Sheryl Fletcher, told reporter Ben Strang that lower speed limits make sense, and she didn't realise it wasn't already the law.