Response to Graeme Weggery - from The Mount, and has no idea of the commute chaos between the hours of 7am onwards and 5pm onwards Monday to Friday from Te Puke to Hewletts Road area and vice versa.
While I appreciate your excellence in working out the average speeds in km/h to the average travel time in minutes, no one should be doing between 40 to 90 km/hr in the 100km zone should they? If you haven't got the balls or confidence to do 100km/hr in the 100km zone or 80km in the 80 zone etc. then get on the bus, it's that simple.
Second response to Alison Badger - from Omokoroa, and who also has no idea of the commute chaos [at above times] between Te Puke to Hewletts Road: This also applies to you... when I have to keep paying rising road user and rego charges along with rising fuel costs, like so many other NZers , I am entitled to do the speed limits that the signs recommend.
If it becomes an issue for you Alison and Graeme next time you're on a main highway where you should be doing 100km/h, and someone is tailing closely to you because for whatever reason you decide you can sit on 70km and do your 'crocheting squares” while on your way to your game of bridge/petanque, why not leave home 10 minutes earlier and waddle off to the bus stop, and get on it. That way you will have 10 minutes more for your cup of chanui tea, followed buy a couple of sports velvet tabs to get you through the day.... Speed up and show some pride. (abridged)

Simon Loveridge, Te Puke.