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Exploring/Transportation and roads/Road safety/Travel Safe/Road safety - adults

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Road safety - adults

The Travel Safe team work in the community to reduce accidents and improve road safety.

Young Driver Workshop

Free young driver workshops are aimed at road users aged between 16 and 24, who hold a current learner or restricted driver licence. Participants will leave with improved knowledge, confidence, and skills.

Each workshop includes:

A 60-minute one-on-one driving lesson with a certified instructor
Waka Kotahi NZTA roadworthy vehicle check (what to check to ensure your vehicle is safe and roadworthy)
Driver behaviour awareness (speed, impairment, restraints, distraction, and fatigue
Awareness session on sharing the road with heavy vehicles

Parents/caregivers are strongly encouraged to attend but it’s not compulsory. The four-hour workshops are held during school term holidays, usually between 9am and 1pm.

Drive has everything you need to prepare for your learner, restricted and full licence tests.

Visit the Drive website

Young driver workshop

Car Restraints

Looking for support around car seat restraints? Contact one of our local car seat technicians at travelsafeschools@tauranga.govt.nz. We offer free car seat installations, checks, and will help answer any questions or concerns regarding your car restraint.

Carseat installation

Parking behaviour

Drop off and pick up are busy times that pose a safety risk at the school gate. Travel Safe help schools to communicate things like parking time limits, drop off and pick up zones, parking over the kerb and other safety risks at the school gate. We deliver an in-school parking and safety programme named Peaceful Parker, and partner with council parking officers to do school visits when requested by schools or the community.

Blindzone Workshops

Blindzone workshops allow people to see the world from a truck driver’s point of view. Through a series of practical scenarios, participants will learn where to place themselves so they are visible to truck drivers and will leave with more awareness and confidence on the road.

For more on Blindzone and cycling around heavy vehicles visit Share the Road.

Blindzone workshop

Be Bright, Be Safe, Be Seen

This winter visibility programme reminds cyclists, walkers, runners, and scooter riders to have lights, bright clothing, and reflective gear if they are out and about during early mornings, evenings, and at other times of low light and poor visibility.

Whether commuting to work or school, being active for fun or fitness, or popping down to the local shops, people should take extra care and keep safe by being fully visible on roads and paths.

All cyclists are encouraged to wear high-visibility clothing and ensure their front light, rear light and rear red reflector are all working correctly and are clean.

View the official New Zealand code for cycling for more information.

Speed limits to change outside Tauranga schools

Speed limits outside Tauranga schools will drop to 30km/h during drop off and pick up times from next year to make it safer for students.

The Government brought in a new speed limit rule in September which will see all local streets outside a school required to have a 30km/h variable speed limit by 1 July 2026.

Prior to the introduction of the new rule, Council decided in June to reduce speed limits outside school gates to 40km/h following a review of the safety risks outside schools and strong community support for lower speed limits.

Council has approved the new 30km/h variable speed limit outside the 35 schools previously approved for 40km/h zones and its implementation outside eight new schools. Council also extended the 30km/h variable speed zones to Queen Road in Ōtūmoetai, and Golf Road to Ranch Road and Links Avenue in Mount Maunganui.

Mayor Mahe Drysdale said evidence shows that a lot of crashes involving young people in Tauranga happen before and after school.

“We know that children aged five to 14 years old generally find it difficult to judge the speed and gaps in traffic and may take more risks. Reducing speed limits before and after school to help keep them safe makes complete sense, while allowing normal speeds at lower risk times.”

More than 1000 people took a survey earlier this year with more than 71 per cent in favour of reduced speed limits outside schools. More than 52 per cent were in favour of making the temporary 30km/h limit in the city centre permanent.

Over the past few months Council has been upgrading signs outside schools to support the rollout of the new variable speed zones. The new signs will stay covered until the new speed limit goes live, expected to be in early 2025.

Other recommendations approved include relocating the urban/rural boundary on Welcome Bay Road, moving the 50km/h and 80km/h speed limit change 230 metres east, and consultation with Truman Lane residents and businesses on implementing a permanent speed limit of 50km/h between Mangatawa Link Road and SH29. A temporary 50km/h limit has been in effect for several years to reduce risks associated with the high volume of traffic bypassing the Baylink overpass project.

Posted: Dec 12, 2024,