The Palmerston North City Council has come up with a creative solution that avoids lifting speed limits on some of its local roads.
A new Land Transport Rule came into effect in October last year, requiring local councils to reverse certain speed limits reductions to their previous speed limits.
But instead of reversing lowered speed limits the council reclassified the roads. The city's mayor Grant Smith describes the move as not 'anti - government' just 'common sense'.
A speed sign reading '60'. Photo: NZ Herald Graphics / supplied via LDR
