Pedestrians Protection * New Zealand - From buses city urged
Plans to extend Auckland City's network of bus lanes deep into Remuera have prompted a renewed call for extra safety rules to protect pedestrians and other road users
Auckland,New Zealand -The New Zealand Herald, by Mathew Dearnaley -May 31, 2007: -- The city council wants to add 5km of bus lanes along Remuera and St Johns Roads to its 26km network, to increase the reliability of public transport timetables in its push to get more commuters out of their cars... But the Auckland Tramways Union wants the speed limit in the lanes cut to 40km/h, to give pedestrians or motorists straying into the paths of buses better chances of survival... Union president Gary Froggatt first suggested the lower limit last month, after a pedestrian was killed in a bus lane in Dominion Rd... That was just days after another man, who was engrossed in a newspaper, was struck by a bus in the same lane, but without being injured...
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