Road Safety

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• Provide better rest area facilities and road signs, in areas where fatigue is found to be a major cause of accidents.
• Ensure better coordination between the NZTA, other road controlling authorities, ACC and the police so that safety issues are integrated into land transport planning and management.
• Incorporate into transport planning the Vision Zero goal of zero road deaths for people following the road rules.
• Encourage 'Traffic calming' in order to reduce vehicle speed and improve safety.
• Oppose increases in maximum truckloads and truck lengths. (more here)

• Make cycle and pedestrian safety a priority and ensure that legislation, the road code and by-laws are made sufficient to protect all road users.
• Introduce labour standards into Transport Operator Safety Systems in the trucking industry.
• Investigate a Safe Rates system for the freight and courier industries, where remuneration levels and methods of contracting are considered as part of the overall safety requirements for drivers.
• Consider the introduction of rural driver training programmes, especially for young drivers in poorer disadvantaged communities.
• Expand access to driver testing and licensing into smaller towns where access to a car is the only means of getting to education or work. (more here)

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• Prioritise 200km of median barriers or safety treatments to be implemented on high volume, high speed roads over the next three years.
• Require the NZTA to develop a National Safer Cycling Strategy aimed at reducing the number of serious cycling accidents.
• Require the NZTA to develop a national strategy for speed limit setting that sets out guidelines for local authorities to follow.
• Make it compulsory for repeat drink drivers or offenders caught at a BAC of 1.5+ to have an alcohol interlock installed in their vehicle immediately.
• Introduce random saliva-based roadside drug testing. (more here)

• Legislate for compulsory third party insurance.
• Maintain the age by which someone may obtain a learner drivers licence at 16.
• Implement driver education in schools.
• Institute elements of compulsory practical defensive driving course into the driver licensing system.
• Toughen penalties for driving while disqualified or without a licence, alcohol or drug-impaired driving, and driving at excessive speeds. (more here)