New speed limits are coming into effect on many of Banks Peninsula’s roads and settlements.

Speed limits will reduce from 100km/h to 60km/h. The new speed limits come into effect on Thursday 22 October.

Speed limits changes are also coming for Akaroa’s town centre.

From Thursday 22 October, a 40km/h speed limit will be in place on the majority of roads within the township.

Other speed limit changes coming into effect on 22 October include:

• Purau-Port Levy Road reduced from 100km/h to 60km/h and 40km/h in the Port Levy settlement.

• Port Levy-Pigeon Bay Road reduced from 100km/h to 60km/h with speeds of 60km/h or 40km/h within Pigeon Bay.

• Kukupa, near Pigeon Bay, will have a speed reduction from 100km/h to 40km/h.

• Birdlings Flat, Kaitorete Spit, Little River and Okuti Valley will have speed limits of either 60km/h or 40km/h depending on the specific road.

• The Western Valley route, Puaha Valley and Southern Bays roads will reduce from 100km/h to 60km/h.

• In Charteris Bay a 600m section of Marine Drive lowered from 60km/h to 50km/h.

• In Diamond Harbour a section of Waipapa Avenue will be lowered to 30km/h.

Next year, a 40km/h speed limit will be introduced on all streets in Lyttelton, except Norwich Quay/ Gladstone Quay which is part of State Highway 74 and the responsibility of NZTA.