The cash for safety improvements prompted police yesterday to warn motorists that more people had been killed on New Zealand roads so far this year than in any year since 2010. Safety improvements are to include rumble strips, signs and safety barriers on rural roads, targeted speed limit changes and an activated warning sign at one high-risk rural intersection. Associate Transport Minister Julie Anne Genter committed to further boosting funding for road safety improvements next year when the Government revised the overall transport budget. The NZTA would begin engaging with communities on the proposed safety improvements before Christmas and work was scheduled to start in February. Mr Genter said the Government would hold a road safety summit early next year in order to hear directly from councils about the barriers to, and opportunities for, improving road safety.

Source: Otago Daily Times December 17, 2017 16:07 UTC