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NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

9 June 1997, I, Peter Graeme Croft, Manager, Safer Roads,
give the following notice.

Notice

1. This notice may be cited as the Traffic (Clutha District)
   Notice No. 2, 2003.

2. The roads specified in the First Schedule are declared to
   be closely populated localities at all times for the purposes
   of section 52 of the Transport Act 1962.

3. The roads specified in the Second Schedule are declared
   to be 70 kilometres an hour speed limit areas pursuant to
   Regulation 21 (2) of the Traffic Regulations 1976.

4. All of the Traffic (Clutha County) Notice No. 1, 1981*
   dated the 8th day of April 1981 is revoked.

First Schedule

Situated within the Clutha District at Kaka Point:

Beach Street.

Brighton Street.

Esplanade: From Rimu Street to a point 200 metres
measured southerly, generally, along the said road
from Moana Street.

Hill Street.

Kaihika Street.

Kamahi Street.

Koromiko Street.

Kowhai Street.

Marine Terrace.

Matai Street.

Miro Street.

Moana Street.

Ngaio Street.

Rata Street.

Rimu Street.

Selsea Street.

Tarata Street.

Totara Street.

Wood Street.

Second Schedule

Situated within the Clutha District at Kaka Point:

Kaka Point Road: From Rimu Street to a point 640
metres measured northerly, generally, along the said
road from Selsea Street.

Signed at Wellington this 18th day of December 2003.

P. G. CROFT, Manager, Safer Roads.

*New Zealand Gazette, 23 April 1981, No. 46, page 1125

(RT01/3/67 Clutha)

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Transport Act 1962

Ramp Metering Signal Trial

Pursuant to section 78 of the Transport Act 1962, and
pursuant to a sub-delegation to me by the Director of Land
Transport Safety by an instrument dated the 3rd day of May
1999, I, Peter Graeme Croft, Manager Safer Roads, hereby
authorise the erection, installation and maintenance of
experimental signs and signals:

(i) at the location described in Schedule 1;

(ii) subject to the form set out in Schedule 2;

(iii) subject to the conditions set out in Schedule 3

(iv) for the period specified in Schedule 4; and

No. 1

(v) the form, sequence and timing of the displays
described in Schedules 2 and 3 to this notice are in
substitution to, variation from or equivalent to the
signs and signals described in Part XI of the Traffic
Regulations 1976.

These experimental signs and signals shall be used for the
purpose of evaluating their use and the experiment shall be
called the Ramp Metering Signal Trial.

Schedule 1

Location of Trial

1. The ramp metering signals and signs, described as
   display A and display C in Schedule 2 to this notice, are
   to be located on the north-bound on-ramp to State
   Highway No. 20 at Rimu Road, Manukau City.

2. The signs described as display B in Schedule 2 are to be
   located on Rimu Road on the approaches to the said
   on-ramp.

Schedule 2

Form of Signs and Signals

The ramp metering signals must comprise at least:

(i) for each approach lane to the signals on the ramp,
either on the left or right hand side as appropriate, a
display mounted on a single column (display A)
with two single-column, 3-aspect traffic signals
separated by a traffic sign which displays the words
“One Vehicle Per Green Each Lane”;

(ii) for each approach to the ramp and visible to
approaching drivers in sufficient time to give them
the option of avoiding entering the ramp, a display
(display B) with a variable traffic sign which
displays either the words “Ramp Signal On” or a
blank message and two yellow disc signals, one
mounted above and one mounted below the variable
traffic sign;

(iii) for each approach lane on the ramp in advance of
display A, a display (display C) with a traffic signal
warning sign erected above a variable traffic sign
which displays either the words “Prepare to Stop”
or “Ramp Signal Off”.

Schedule 3

Operating Displays and Sequence

1. Off-state displays

When the ramp meter signals are in the off-state, traffic
entering State Highway No. 20 from the Rimu Road
on-ramp proceeds normally and the ramp metering signals
and signs display the following:

(a) In display A, none of the traffic signal aspects are
illuminated;

(b) In display B, the yellow disc signals and the variable
traffic sign are blank; and

(c) In display C, the variable traffic sign reads “Ramp
Signal Off”.

2. On-state displays and sequences

When the ramp meter signals are in the on-state, traffic
entering State Highway No. 20 from the Rimu Road
on-ramp shall be controlled by the displays and sequence of
signals described as follows:

(a) In display A, the signals must operate in the
following sequence:

(i) the yellow disc signals, flashing at
approximately one Hertz for a period of
at least 10 seconds, followed by the red disc
signals;

(ii) the red disc signals are followed by the green
disc signals displayed for a maximum period of
1.3 seconds;