Speed bump petition shelved

Tauranga City Council will take no action on a petition calling for more speed humps on Gloucester Road.

Council today decided it would not take action until after the ‘missing' Gloucester Road section and Grenada Streets are connected.

Photo: Google Earth.

The area is on the list for traffic calming, and speed humps were added to the ‘to do' list following a meeting in July 2013.

The petition containing 15-16 signatures and calling for speed humps and more roundabouts was presented to the city council in December.

The council views the Gloucester Road traffic as a low priority because the crash rates and operating speeds at Papamoa are lower than other parts of the city. This is not expected to change until more traffic is attracted to the area after the links are built.

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8 comments

Gloucester Road

Posted on 22-04-2014 16:47 | By RML

Quote:"operating speeds at Papamoa are lower than other parts of the city" : Yea ....Na ..Incorrect.I live on this road. The average speed that cars are doing are 60Km/Hr. But it,s the 80Km/hr plus that gets on my wick big time (esp before and after work).Council come and have a real look.


Gloucester road speed hump petition

Posted on 22-04-2014 18:48 | By Gloucester rd resident

One way of controlling the traffic on Gloucester is to park our "Older vehicles" on the side of the road opposite each other, Thereby creating a "Gate" or side friction and hopefully slowing down the traffic. One of 2 things may happen. They will hopefully slow down or worst case crashing my old car! I might check my insurance before I do this!


thats

Posted on 22-04-2014 21:57 | By Capt_Kaveman

the mentality of people who live here that want to strangle the already squashed roads, solution if you want slower speeds go live in a retirement village and buy a mob scooter, these roads need to be freed up not squashed


Bang on RML

Posted on 23-04-2014 14:33 | By Paul Melhuish

I agree RML about Papamoa Beach Road. It is a shocker for speed. TCCs own data collection has 70-75% of vehicles speeding in the 50km/h zone. The data doesn't record over 120km/h for some odd reason but a few incredibly, as you will know, are at that speed and more. For those who doubt, come and check it out yourselves. You will certainly see 80km/h in the morning from a large section of traffic from 5.30 to around 8.30. TCC staff are pretty much impervious to these issues (and I have tried) as they know this is where Tauranga is exploding in growth...and we don't want that to be interrupted now do we!! Oh and for anyone thinking that police cameras and a few tickets will fix the problem, think about whether you have a case study to prove this has worked...anywhere.


Paul Melhuish

Posted on 23-04-2014 18:01 | By Capt_Kaveman

Papamoa has been dropped from 70-60 which is well low enough it should have stayed at 70


Wrong Kaveman

Posted on 23-04-2014 21:54 | By Paul Melhuish

Why should it be 70 Kaveman? You make a claim and provide no evidence to back up your claim. I for one am happy to have 50 and 60km/h limits in this area and think people who live on Pap Beach Road would agree.


Gloucester road speed hump petition

Posted on 25-04-2014 14:46 | By whitless

Go ahead park your older vehicles on the side of the road to create a gate or side friction, the road is wide enough for four cars at once! Get a hobby and stop fixating, you really should have bought a house in a cul-de-sac not a road that everyone knew/knows will soon be linked and become a main road in and out of Papamoa.


Apt name Whitless

Posted on 29-04-2014 13:51 | By Paul Melhuish

So in your world Whitless, it is absolutely fine for vehicles to speed? Remember that this area now has 2 primary schools with a total role over 1000 and a new College. Do they not deserve to be able to walk and cycle safely around their community? Little reality check for you there, forgot about them didn't you?


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