Slower traffic and fewer speeding tickets being given out are what Greerton police are seeing with the first business and school day under the new give way rules.

'Traffic is going a lot slower than it normally does at this time of day,” says Sergeant Wayne Hunter.

'Everybody's being a bit cautious and there's not so many speeding tickets being issued.”

Left turning traffic ignored the give way sign today.

Meanwhile some commuters are considering changing routes into the central city to avoid some of the areas affected by the new rules; such as the turn onto Te Awanui Drive from the Cambridge Road overbridge.

The rules have introduced conflict with existing give way signs at some turns with the Cambridge Road turn again an example.

On some intersections like the give way left turn into Te Awanui Drive from Cambridge Road the sign will be moved, to remind the traffic from the Otumoetai end that they still have to give way to traffic turning right from Cambridge Road.

'We are certainly monitoring on our cameras we have about the city and the morning peak seems to have passed us by without too many issues,” says Tauranga City Council transport operations traffic manager Martin Parkes.

'Traffic seems to have flowed pretty well, with very little congestion.”

The give way sign on the left turn into Te Awanui Drive will be repositioned because at the moment it is slightly obscured.

That move is part of work the council will be doing on 65 city intersections in the next couple of months.

'Most of them are uncontrolled intersections,” says Martin.

'On some the give way is being changed to a stop sign because the visibility for drivers is slightly sub-standard.”

The city council transport team reviewed 430 intersections before the give way rule change.

Most only require changes to signage or road markings and none require physical works such as changes to kerb alignment.

Of the 430 intersections, the 65 that will be changed in the next few months, at a cost of about $20,000, are the priority ones.

The 65:

1. Give Way controlling Hammond Street at Welcome Bay Road

2. Give Way controlling Kentia Avenue at Gloucester Road

3. Give Way controlling Lotus Avenue at Gloucester Road

4. Give Way controlling Reilly Avenue at Sunrise Avenue

5. Give Way controlling Pemberton Crescent at Mansels Road

6. STOP controlling Tutchen Street at 11th Avenue

7. STOP controlling Parkvale Road at Grange Road

8. STOP controlling Boscabel Drive at Ohauiti Road

9. STOP controlling Wharf Street (west) at Cameron Road

10. STOP controlling Rowesdale Drive at Ohauiti Road

11. Give Way controlling Jasmine Place at Hibiscus Avenue

12. Give Way controlling Waiariki Street at Oceanbeach Road

13. Give Way controlling Lasiandra Place at Gloucester Road

14. Give Way controlling Coach Drive at Grange Road

15. Give Way controlling Percy Road at Domain Road

16. Give Way controlling Webb Place at Evans Road

17. Give Way controlling Wilkinson Street at Fraser Street

18. Give Way controlling Thornlea Drive at Waitaha Road

19. Give Way controlling Caernarvon Rise at Beaumaris Boulevard

20. Give Way controlling Glamis Grove at Beaumaris Boulevard

21. Give Way controlling Hayes Avenue at Chadwick Road

22. STOP controlling Bay Street at Levers Road

23. STOP controlling Idesia Grove at Levers Road

24. STOP controlling Rewarewa Place at Levers Road

25. Give Way controlling Westwood Street at Princess Road

26. Give Way controlling Cynthia Place at Carlton Street

27. Give Way controlling Winchester Terrace at Westminster Drive

28. Give Way controlling Bell Common Close at Townhead Crescent

29. Give Way controlling Richmond Heights at Bethlehem Heights

30. Give Way controlling Brodie Place at Kinloch Drive

31. Give Way controlling Lorna Place at Grosmont Terrace

32. STOP controlling Mission Street at Chapel Street

33. STOP controlling Bureta Road (north side) at Ngatai Road

34. STOP controlling Vine Avenue at Maungatapu Road

35. STOP controlling Twentieth Avenue at Clarke Street

36. Give Way controlling Aerodrome Road at Newton Street

37. STOP controlling St Andrew's Drive at Orange Lane

38. Give Way controlling Spur Avenue at Links Avenue

39. Give Way controlling Matthew Street at Clarke Street

40. Give Way controlling Dunrobbin Place at Tuthill Street

41. Give Way controlling Hillstone Avenue at Cornwall Street

42. Give Way controlling Lincoln Terrace at Cornwall Street

43. Give Way controlling Hillstone Avenue at Sheppard Street

44. Give Way controlling Manley Grove South at Sheppard Street

45. Give Way controlling Murray Street at Cook Street

46. Give Way controlling Percival Avenue at Tilby Drive

47. Give Way controlling Eaton Crescent at Smiths Road

48. Give Way controlling Tainui Street at Matua Road

49. STOP controlling Lysaght Place at Village Park Drive

50. STOP controlling Dunton Drive at Arawata Avenue

51. STOP controlling Ward Street at Cook Street

52. STOP controlling Mahoe Street at Matua Road

53. STOP controlling Mission Street at Cliff Road

54. Give Way controlling Forrester Drive at Forrester Drive

55. Give Way controlling Norris Street at 9th Avenue

56. Give Way controlling Aspen Place at Sandhurst Drive

57. Give Way controlling Haven Grove at Sandhurst Drive

58. Give Way controlling Tainui Street at Matua Road

59. Give Way controlling Christopher Street at 14th Avenue

60. Give Way controlling Graham Place at Bellevue Road

61. Give Way controlling Devonport Road at 18th Avenue

62. Give Way controlling Faulkner Street at Cook Street

63. STOP controlling Percival Avenue at Tainui Street

64. Give Way controlling Achilles Crescent at James Cook Drive

65. Give Way controlling Achilles Crescent at Victory Street