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Safe cycling (SI High Concern> National success indicator: A reduction in the number of fatal and serious crashes involving cyclists.

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Safe Cycling Activity 1 Cyclists feature strongly in Kids Can ride Attached Post and pre event Kids can Ride fully and road user Kids can ride the overall crash numbers for team . operations evaluations from booked for year with

Tauranga representing 1 5% Travel Safe calendar every school . well over 3,500 of all injuries and 18% of Cycle advocate PEO's have cycle students being local fatalities, we would like TCC safety education trained to on road to reduce these figures by PEO where needed to riding . 10% respectfully. Programme Schools enhance the gaps. is designed to educate local NZTA (refer travel plans) 1 0 year olds at local schools in cycling technique, safe travel and road safety skills to make it safer to cycle in our district.

Safe cycling Activity 2 Cyclists feature strongly in TCC Cycle Attached 5% increase in the Very successful. and road user Commuter and the overall crash numbers for Advocate operations number of Web hits www.lovetoride.netL

Leisure cycling Tauranga representing 1 5% Travel Safe , calendar on TCC cycle web bop Bikewise Month of all injuries and 18% of BOPRC site . 5% in number Travel Safe in

local fatalities we would like TCC Planners of locals selecting partner with Sport to reduce these figures by Engineers cycling as a travel BOP and internally 10% respectfully. This CAT mode. with Parks . programme will engineer, Sport BOP, design , build and publicise Cycling clubs safe cycle routes throughout

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Safe System local Activities Activity Objective I Outputs Responsibility Dates Activity Monitoring Reporting and Evaluation Safe Cycling Activity 3 To establish contacts and Travel Safe Attached Annual monitoring Cycle savvy skills road user Neighbourhood Safe support through community Soprt BOP calendar through data bases programme in full

cycling groups/workplaces to reach and evaluations one action with full at risk cyclists and increase Ride Leader numbers for adults . safe cycling integrated with workshop two adult Ride Leader groups other priorities. Cycle skills cycle skills courses. in full action have training for adults and Ride grown and split into Leader groups with trained two . Ride Leader leaders. groups are very

successful in our region and Cycle NZ use our area as an example . Bikes in Schools Track opened in Gate Pa school , Travel Safe supported the school through School Travel plan and follow up with cycle skills with sea.

Safe road user Activity 4 To coordinate and promote SPBOP Attached Annual monitoring Bike Month Regional Bike Wise activities across the BOPRC operations through crash completed . Still Bike-Wise campaigns Bay of Plenty. Look to Travel Safe calendar register and NZTA following through

develop a travel planning local issues data. with School Travel website where bike events plans and Workplace can be promoted throughout travel plans. Setting the year. Provide prizes and up profiles and safe bicycle equipment to champions . support local events.

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Safe active transport programmes to encourage Travel Safe operations bus patronage and plan still in early and educate the commu nity Sport BOP calendar developing stages . Support in safe travel through Toi Te Ora additional work Trustpowe r alternative modes and public Public Health place travel plans workplace t rave l transport. locally. plan , profiled a

cyclist and given TCC.@x cycle assessors t rained in our area.

Safe road user Activity 6 Cycle helmet enforcement NZ Police April Tauranga poli ce Cycle helmet Bike Wise - Travel campaign Travel Safe May records and Stats com petition had Safe Be Safe, Be Cycling campaigns aligned to Toi Te Ora June Cyclists given safety 1 ,649 entries Seen, Be Bright NZTA Public health equipment as part of winners presented

Be Bright DHB Attached campaigns across by Mayor Brownless . Safe cycling integrated into BOPRC operations city. Feedback from Very successful Work Well workplaces for ACC workplace calendar workplaces campaign , shared it safety outcomes with Hamilton City

Council and are pleased with replicating it . Be Bright programme in planning and initial stages. Five Pitstops planned for May. Media release on Friday 1 May.

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To improve the reported MOT survey results of child restraint to a compliance rate. To investigate and car seat technicians and support training with new providers.

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Safe System Local Activities Activity Objective I Responsibility Dates Activity Monitoring and Reporting Outputs Evaluation Safe vehicles Activity 3 To raise awareness in regard Ruben Attached Evaluated under School Pre-school

School and to seatbelt I click use within Travel Safe operations travel plan campaign . awareness Preschool the integrated School travel Team calendar through action education plan campaign . Puppet Vision plans . Ruben the

Integrate messages as part Police road safety bear of Pre-school travel plans. Plunket programme and

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Increasing the safety of older New Zealanders <SI 2020 Continued and emerging focus) National success indicator: To improve the fatality rate for older drivers from 1 5 per 100,000 to 11 per 1 00,000

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Safe older road Activity 1 To reduce the serious Occupational Ongoing Annual monitoring One Carfit workshop

user Increasing the safety crashes and deaths reported therapists March- through MOT report, to train volunteers

of older New for older drivers . NZ Police October local data and crash and refresher. Five Carfit planned

Zealanders To encourage older drivers to Retailers register and NZTA for end of March understand and use modern Travel Safe I local issues data. 2017 in community vehicle tech no log ies. To Road Safety Two Car fit in suburbs .

assist older drivers across to Age Concern programmes in five Five mobility scooter

mobility scooter use . suburbs annually. workshops planned for April 2017.

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refresher. 12 driver refresher partnership with Age courses annually

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National success indicator: A reduction in number of fatal and serous crashes involving fatigue.

Safe System Local Activities Activity Objective I Outputs Responsibility Dates Activity Monitoring

Reporting and Evaluation Safe road user Activity 1 Fatigue integrated into NZTA Travel Safe Ongoing Annual monitoring

High risk rural roads high risk rural road NZTA as part of through crash stats programme . Police NSC and MOT report . Fatigue and other distraction DHB - Work education through well Workplaces at appropriate alignment to NZTA.

Other outcomes • Cycling partnership with Sport BOP together set up www.lovetoride.net/bop with Rotorua- a collaborative model that has been

successful for workplaces under Aotearoa National Bike Challenge. Tauranga City Council on national challenge. • Bike Friendly awards - entered four categories - Gate Pa School - Bikes in Schools, check out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F9WrFaUIE&feature=youtu.be Gate Pa School - Bikes in Schools video • Travel Safe newsletter produced for Tauranga City Council I Western Bay of Plenty District Council primary schools • CAP project in action for Tauranga City Council student groups

Local Emerging Issues from 2016- 1 7 • Elderly drivers I mobility scooter users • Population growth across Tauranga City Council and Western Bay of Plenty District Council including in all schools • Cycling growth - need for people resource to align behaviour to infrastructure • Restraints - retaining skill base in car seat technicians, knowing what to do going ahead

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August 201 7

COMMUNITY DRIVER MENTOR PROGRAMME

We have been very fortunate to have several Community Driver Mentoring Programmes operating in our region supporting young drivers to get their restricted driver licence. These programmes are partnerships with the Transport Agency and local Councils with support from other stakeholders.

The Community Driver mentoring programme started with the pilot programme in Waitomo that Waitomo District Council is now managing. We also helped support the Hamilton Settlement Centre HMS Trust with their pilot Refugee driver training project. This has been so successful it is now being used in other centres around New Zealand. This year Opotiki District Council started the Opotiki Community Driver mentor programme and Waikato District Council is about to get their one based in Huntly started.

The programme addresses the disadvantages that some learner drivers getting their restricted licence face . The purpose of the Community Driver Mentor Programme is:

• To address issues of disadvantage for learner drivers in the 16-24 age group seeking to get their restricted licences, such as access to suitable vehicles, mentors and practice

• To improve levels of safe driving for these learner drivers

ACC and the Transport Agency recently refreshed our Drive website in June which is proving to be a very effective tool for also helping young drivers through the licencing process. Drive has a number of key features including interactive road code, driving videos, guide to the practical tests and resources for coaches who are helping people to learn to drive. Drivers who sign up can track their progress and get access to practice tests and special quizzes to help them prepare.

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STATE HIGHWAY CAPITAL PROJECTS UPDATE

Bay of Plenty

SH2 Waihi to Tauranga

• Public information days were held on 30/31 March and 1 April in Katikati, Waihi and Omokoroa to present the short-list options for the corridor

• An implementation plan for the recommended options will be defined later this year following detailed option testing and subject to the Transport Agency Board 's support. This includes an update on timings and design of the Katikati bypass. More information

SH2 Te Puna/Minden Roundabout

• The project was originally scheduled to be finished by July 2017 however, completion has been delayed by unprecedented rainfall in March and April, severe weather events like Cyclone Debbie, and challenges with the relocation of power and telecommunications cables.

• The decision has been made to work through the winter using a different construction method for the pavement; a lightweight concrete will be used instead of stone for the base and an asphalt seal will be used instead of bitumen. This is a faster construction process which is not as affected by winter conditions.

• The work that remains is the construction of the roundabout, the sealing of all sections of the road, raising the level of some lanes, completion of local roads tie ins to the roundabout and lighting and landscaping. The current programme is to have all work completed on the state highway by early August 2017.

More information

SH2/SH29A Baypark to Bayfair Link Upgrade

• CPB Contractors were awarded the Design and Construct contract. • A sod-turning for the project was held on 16 May 2017. • The construction team are expecting to be onsite late-July 2017 with works starting in

August. Construction programme still to be confirmed. • Ongoing work with the cycling community to explore the feasibility on options for cyclists and

pedestrians (specifically around an underpass as part of the design). More information

SH29A Hairini Link/Maungatapu Underpass

• The second bridge was completed and the roundabout reinstated at the end of June 2017. • Work has started on removing material from under the completed road bridge. Best place to view

this work is from the new pedestrian bridge. • The project is on track for an early-2018 completion

More information

SH29A Maungatapu median barrier

• Completion is expected August 2017. The 1.3km flexible median barrier removes the risk of head-on crashes

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SH29A Poike Road Overbridge

• Construction started in July 2016 and the bridge is open. Contractor is now focussing on the connecting cyclepaths and walkways. Construction of the timber boardwalk to lla Park (Stage 2) is ongoing, but has slowed due to difficulties in working through wetland areas. Completion of stage 2 is now expected in October 2017.

• Construction of the cyclepath from lla Park to Hairini (Stage 3) is subject to securing property agreements and is not expected to be complete until early 2018. More information

Weather Activated Variable Speed Limit signs (SH29)

• The trial has been active for 14 months with evaluations continuing. The findings for the first year of the trial are online. More information

Connect Rotorua Programme

Eastern: SH30 Te Ngae Road

• Two stage investment programme: o Stage One: SH30 between Sala Street and Tarawera Road; o Stage Two: Continuing east along SH30 towards Owhata from Tarawera Road intersection. o Stage Two linked to Spatial Plan, provides for incremental improvements as growth

triggers reached. Benefits - improves peak hour congestion, local access and travel choice and supports eastern corridor growth.

Central: SH30A Amohau Street

• City centre revitalisation including revised form and function of SH30a Amahou Street, leading to revocation.

Benefits- encourages right trips on routes in the CBD where our customers are using the locals roads for their shorter, internal trips and the state highways for the longer inter-regional trips.

, improves access and amenity, and supports CBD revitalisation and the local economy.

More information

SH5/SH30 Hemo Road Roundabout

• The completion of the roundabout has been delayed due to a number of reasons including an archaeological find (the original water system), closure of a quarry and the requirement to find a new source of aggregate, complex ground conditions and unprecedented wet weather.

• The expected completion date was July 2017 but this project is now expected to be completed in October 2017 More information

Tauriko Network Plan

• Partners are working on "Tauriko for Tomorrow", a collaborative project driven by Tauranga City Council, Western Bay of Plenty District Council, Bay of Plenty Regional Council and the Transport Agency.

• The partners are now focussed on delivering the two detailed business cases: SH29 Tauriko West Network Connections (between the Omanawa Road and Barkes Corner intersections with SH29); and SH29a Barkes to Poike Urban Access

• These business cases are being developed in tandem with structure planning processes for the western corridor growth areas to develop complementary transport solutions that enhance

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community liveability, improve road safety and enable efficient freight access to the Port of Tauranga.

• Public information days were held on 26/27 May which 769 people attended. • Currently developing and evaluating the detailed options for the improvement options for SH29,

SH29A and SH36, and also the public transport solutions, walking and cycling, and local road connections in the area. The next step in the programme is to finalise the short list options which will be consulted on later this year.

Piarere to Tauriko (SH29) Business Case

• Stakeholder engagement to commence shortly on the Detailed Business Case (next couple of months) with public consultation on options to follow later in 2017.

• The business case defines a long-term programme of improvements along SH29 to address safety and freight efficiency issues, extending the benefits of the Waikato Expressway.

• Key improvements likely to include: o A more consistent provision of passing lanes along the route o Improved service facilities o Intersection upgrades with greater priority to SHl-29 route o Realignments including over the Kaimai summit to ease the impact of the grade and bends

on travel costs

Tauranga Northern Link (SH2)

• Geotechnical work is completed and the team are working through the specimen design and resource consents.

• A technical assessment of tolling has been completed and is under consideration as part of a wider tolling review.

• Development of a revocation plan for the existing SH2 is underway

Waikato

Waikato Expressway

• Longswamp: Work well under way on the final section of the expressway. The 5.9km section is expected to be completed in April 2019. Entire section under 70km/h speed restriction. South­bound lanes being built first, then traffic switched to those while north-bound lanes done.

• Rangiriri: Traffic on all four lanes at 100km/h since Easter. The symbolic reinterpretation of historic paa site now under way. Planning for a November 2017 major event to mark completion of the roading and paa projects.

The paa re interpretation work at Rangiriri will complete the project.

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• Huntly: Second season of earthworks hit 1.8 million cubic metres, a little shy of 2 million target due to wet weather. Bridge work continues. Completion 2020.

• Hamilton: Earthworks also affected by weather but full construction end to end, with focus mainly on bridges over winter. First local road bridges over expressway to open to traffic in October at Gordonton Road and Morrinsville Road. Completion 2020. More information

Cobham Drive

• Cobham Drive underpass at Sillary Street under construction. Completion September 2017 • Wairere Drive intersection: Hamilton City Council now investigating a grade-separated

intersection to fit with the Southern Links designation. So 2-3 years before Wairere Dr connection is complete .

• Cambridge Road intersection : In design for traffic signals, build delayed to integrate with Wairere/Cobham construction.

SH2 Pokeno to Mangatarata

Funding approved for $278 million project to three-lane route as a major safety improvement, with three sections off current alignment. Design under way; consenting and property purchasing. Construction is in five stages over several years to match funding availability. First section is due to start 2018.

More information

SH3 Awakino Tunnel to Mount Messenger

Three projects within a single programme aimed at improving safety, resilience and journey time reliability.

• Awakino Tunnel preferred option is a 2-bridge bypass. Construction occurs during 2018/19 • A bypass of Mount Messenger- options still under investigation, construction 2018/19 • Corridor-wide safety and resilience improvements (being delivered by Safe Roads),

construction of stage 1 now under way

More information

SHl/Cambridge to Piarere

A favoured option is to go to the Transport Agency board for approval in August. It is for full expressway treatment including SH1/29 intersection, and offline between Karapiro Road and the SH29 intersection. Potential 2020 construction start. In the interim the Safe Roads Alliance will be delivering short-term corridor safety improvements- wide centreline, localised widening etc.

More information

SAFE ROADS UPDATE

Safe Roads is part of the government's Safer Journeys strategy to improve the safety of our rural roads through simple measures such as rumble strips, shoulder widening, safety barriers, better signage and changes to speed limits. The $600 million Safe Roads and Roadsides programme will be delivered over six years.

Summary of Waikato projects:

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There are 16 Safe Roads projects underway in the Waikato. Ten are currently being developed and 6 are in construction. These are:

• SH27/ SH26 to SH24 • SH23 Waitetuna to Raglan • SH3 Awakino to Mount Messenger stage 1 • SH1 Bombay to Hampton Downs • SH3/SH37 toTe Kuiti • SH3 Ohaupo toTe Awamutu

Summary of Bay of Plenty projects:

There are seven Safe Roads projects in the Bay of Plenty. Five are currently being developed, one is completed and one is in construction:

• SH33 Te Teko to Awakeri- completed • SH34 SH30 to Kawerau - in construction

For more information visit Safe Roads Alliance webpage or contact Shelley Crestani, Engagement Manager shelley.crestani@saferoads.co.nz

ROAD TOll 2017

At the 24 July 2017, there have been 212 fatalities nationally compared to 185 for the same time in 2016. The Waikato has had 35 compared to 48 at the same time last year and the BoP has had 11 compared to 13 at the same time last year. Hopefully we can keep this reduction going for our region.

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SAFER JOURNEYS SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS

• High Risk Rural Roads Guide • High Risk Intersection Guide • Motorc¥cling Safet¥ Guide

Safe Roads & Roadsides • Revised KiwiRap maps • Safer lourne¥S for Rural Schools guide • Safer lourne¥S for Schools-Guidelines for School

Communities

Safe Speeds • Speed Management Guide • Engagement handbook

Safe Road Use Police and advertising calendar •

Safe Vehicles • RightCar website • AN CAP

• Safer lourneys website

Safe System • Safer journeys action plans • Safer journeys resources • Education portal - resources for schools

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TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES

• 2017 REAAA Roadshow Engineering for disaster- when, not if ' Rotorua- 17 August

• Low Volume Roads Workshop 13-15 Sep 2017- Trinity Wharf Tauranga • Australian Road Safety Conference 10-12 October 2017- Perth

Keeping Connected

Keeping Connected is our information portal for Transport Agency partners and stakeholders. In it you will find news and information about the wide range of work we do across New Zealand.

Social media

Check out our Transport Agency Waikato Bay of Plenty Facebook page or our Twitter feed which provides regularly updated traffic and travel information

Please contact Narelle Barrowcliffe our Senior Communications Advisor for Waikato/BoP if there is anything you would like us to share.

Marceli Davison Regional Road Safety Advisor, NZ Transport Agency DDI 64 7 958 7843 M 021 833 306 E marcel i.davison@nzta.govt.nz

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2016-17 update for period 01 July 2016 to 31 March 2017

The Regiona l Road Safety Action Plan is available at http://www.boprc.govt.nz/media/546095/final-boprc­

road-safety-action-plan-2016 17 .pdf

1. Quarterly update on delivery of Regional Road Safety Action Plan

30 Sep 2016

• The Winter Drive to the Conditions radio campaign and the Winter Pit Stop (TWIRL check your car) ran from April 2016 to end of August 2016. The campaign is run in co-operation with the sub-region's road safety co-ordinators and NZTA. This year pit stops were held in the Eastern Bay for the first time and student mechanics assisted Andrew Lister the NZTA technical expert. In Tauranga and Rotorua pit stops were tria lied at Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology, (formerly Bay of Plenty Polytech and Wairiki Institute of Technology) using student mechanics. Results from these two pit stops have highlighted a potential focus area for future campaigns.

Kawerau 86 34 40%

Whakatane 80 20 25%

Rotorua 150 44 29%

Tauranga /Western Bay 148 so 34%

Tota l 464 148 32%

• Planned campaigns, (mainly radio) over the next few months will focus on driving sober, distractions and fatigue especially around long weekends and the holiday season.

• The Mai FM radio campaign targeting young people travelling to and from New Year events will run Auckland, Waikato and Bay of Plenty. Fatigue stops planned for New Year and the long weekends in January and February have been cancelled due to time constraints resolving health and safety issues and traffic management plans.

• Planning for best practice road safety professional development workshop (March 2017) for community workers, educators, facilitators and teachers working with young people is well underway. This workshop has received support from the NZTA Educationa l Advisor. Karen Smith the Western Bay Road Safety Committee Travel Safe Team Leader has been instrumental in making this workshop happen.

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• The Region's small billboards were changed out to the summer colours, (blue and yellow) in October and those with winter driving messages swapped to choose a sober driver.

• Slow down, other people make mistakes, Distraction, Fatigue and Drive sober radio campaigns were run over October, November, and December.

• The Mai FM radio campaign targeting young people travelling to and from New Year events was run. Online giveaways were included to ensure greater engagement. National Mai FM Facebook page reached over 70,000 people and received over 1,100 responses. Lockbox competition ran in Rotorua and Tauranga. Rotorua reached over 1500 people a week with between 116 and 232 responses each week. Mediaworks will supply a report and include Tauranga statistics as well .

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73• At the Trafinz conference held in November at Tauranga two of our region's road safety co-ordinators,

Reade Nikora and Lorreen Hartley were nominated for the Cedric Rodgers Award.

31 March 2017

• The best practice road safety professional development workshops for community workers, educators, facilitators and teachers working with young people were held March 2017. Thanks to NZTA whom covered all of the Presenters costs . Sixty-nine people from Community Organisations registered for the Day 1 workshop, 34 people attended the Day 2 workshop for secondary school teachers including teachers from the eastern Bay sub-region. There were no registrations from Rotorua teachers possibly due to the location of the workshops and timing issues. Detailed analysis and follow up is still to be done. Feedback was positive (with attendees staying on afterwards to talk to the Presenters) . Initial indications are similar workshops every two years would be reasonably well attended. Verbal support has been received from the NZTA Education Advisor.

• Road codes were issued to the Region's Road Safety Committees.

• NZTA has advised it will now continue to produce the Communities at Risk Register and the 2016 Register (using 2011-2015 data) should be available at the end of April 2017.

• Results for the 2016 calendar year are available in the NZTA Crash Analysis system.

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30 June 2017

• The Region's small billboards were changed out to winter messaging, the following themes were also included:

o the NZTA Same Diff Seatbelt campaign; o it can wait distraction message on Western Bay Gateway signs; and o 6 Billboards promoting the Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) Ride Forever Training.

• A region-wide back of bus Same Diff Seatbelt campaign is running over May, June and July and complements NZTA national advertising.

• Road codes have been distributed and support provided to the Blue Light Young Driver Navigator Mentoring programme.

• The winter drive to the condition and check your car campaign started in April2017. Results to date are below. Participation by Toi Ohomai student mechanics has increased to now include all areas, (Whakatane, Rotorua and Tauranga) with the NZTA Technical Advisor providing training on how to carry out the TWIRL checks and importance of WOF standards.

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12-Jul Murupara Shopping centre car park 61 47 77%

26-Jul Countdown Rotorua 33 16 48%

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• Post 30 June- the 2 Day planning workshop for road safety co-ordinators was held with outcomes agreed for the 2018-21 funding cycle.

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2. News from the Regional Transport Committee {RTC}

RTC Committee members are:

• Chairman : S Crosby

• Deputy Chairman : J Nees

• Appointees: Mayor A Bonne (Whakatane District Council), MayorS Chadwick (Rotorua Lakes Council), Councillor R Curach (Tauranga City Council), Mayor J Forbes (Opotiki District Council), J Galbraith (Freight Advisor), Councillor D Thwaites (Western Bay of Plenty District Council), P Mclean (Regional Director Waikato/BOP, New Zealand Transport Agency)

1'1 RTC Committee Meeting of the new triennium was held 16 December 2016 at BOPRC offices, 87 First Avenue, Tauranga

• NZTA are developing a business case for a driver licensing programme for youth in Opotiki and has been working with Opotiki District Council to develop a Community Driver Mentor Programme. The Community Driver Mentor Programme model is designed to be community owned and operated. Members viewed youth and rural licensing as a broader issue that needed a universal approach, with comment made on challenging core fundamental policy. There are national funding constraints . General Manager Strategy & Science Fiona McTavish suggested that the regional economic growth plan as a region-wide solution, which she undertook to investigate and report back on.

2"d RTC Committee Meeting of the new triennium was held 30 March 2017 at BOPRC offices, 87 First Avenue, Tauranga

• NZTA organisational review is nearing completion. There will be four relationship zones. For the Central North Island, Parekawahia Mclean is the Regional Relationship Director, (fixed term).

• Safe Roads Alliance is now called Safe Roads. Collaborative venture between NZTA, Beca, Bloxam, Burnett & Oliver (BBO) and Northern Civil Consulting (NCC).

• Included in the submissions on the Draft Government Policy Statement on Land Transport 2018/19-2027/28 made by the Bay of Plenty Regional Transport Committee in relation to road safety were the following requests:

o the addition of a new focus area 'encouraging safe road user behaviour' and a result designed to target the causes of high risk road user behaviour;

o that the proportion of funding allocated to local road improvements in GPS 2015 is retained and that the GPS directs that local priorities should have greater emphasis in the investment criteria applied to this activity; and

o that a proportion of the state highway improvements funding is reallocated to the regional improvements activity class.

• The Regional Land Transport Annual Report Card 2015/16 was received and can be accessed at: https ://www. boprc.govt. nz/media/612267 /2017 -03-14-bay-of-plenty-regiona 1-la nd-tra nsport -pian­an nua 1-report-ca rd-2015-16-we b. pdf

3'd RTC Committee Meeting of the new triennium was held 30 June 2017 at BOPRC offices, 87 First Avenue, Tauranga

• Dan Kneebone, Port of Tauranga Property and Infrastructure Manager have been appointed as the port advisor to the Committee.

• For reports on from NZTA, including the Katikati bypass and un update on the review of the Regional Land Transport Pian see the agenda http://www. boprc.govt.nz/media/637221/2017 -06-23-regional­tra nsport -committee-meeting-age nda-30-j u ne-2017. pdf

• The 2017/18 Regional Road Safety Action Plan (RSAP) was received and approved by the Committee. The report to the Committee and draft plan can be accessed at the above agenda link. One amendment was requested that the RTC supports a national universal driver licensing programme. The final Regional RSAP will be available shortly.

Full minutes and agendas are available at http://www.boprc.govt.nz/council/committees-and­meetings/regional-transport-committee/.

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763. Regional land Transport Plan and road safety

The Regional Council is responsible for preparing the Regiona l Land Transport Plan (RLTP) which is the guiding document for road safety and improvements in the region. It is currently being reviewed and updated. The interim results from the first workshop indicate that road safety is the 2nd most important problem identified by the RTC.

Since the workshop a draft statement around road safety for the 2018-2048 RLTP has been prepared and is below. May be subject to change,

Poor user behaviour in an unforgiving transport environment is resulting in unacceptable avoidable

death and serious injury (30%}

Road crashes impose high social and economic costs on the Bay of Plenty . In 2016, the total social cost

of deaths and serious injuries amounted to $270 million. While the overall number of deaths and

serious injuries has shown some improvement over the past few years, they still remain unacceptably

high . What these figures also do not show is the human impact of crashes on families, the w ider

community and the health system.

The Communities at Risk Register highlights two measures of risk on the road network- personal risk

and collective risk:

• Personal risk is a count of deaths and serious injuries divided by distance or time travelled. Being a relative measure, personal risk allows comparison between different regions.

• Collective risk is measured as the five year average yearly deaths and serious injuries on the network. This shows where the biggest differences can be made in total numbers of deaths and serious injuries.

Figure 1 shows the region's performance for the fourteen priority areas of concern in the national

Safer Journeys strategy. In terms of personal risk, the Bay of Plenty is compared to all other road safety

regions in New Zealand 1. The table shows that in relative terms, the Bay of Plenty performs poorly in

the following areas:

• Alcohol and drugs;

• Distraction;

• Fatigue;

• Young drivers; and

• Motorcyclists.

Looking at collective risk, the table shows that the five areas with the potential for the greatest

reductions in deaths and serious injuries in the region are:

• Rural roads;

• Young drivers;

• Alcohol and drugs;

• Speed; and

• Motorcyclists.

1 Priority areas of concern are highlighted if the region has a personal risk profile greater than one standard deviation above the mea n (high) or between half and one st andard deviation above the mean (medium). The remaining areas of concern fall below or are within ha lf a standard deviation of the mean.

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77Figure 1: Communities at Risk Register 2017

Category

User behaviour

User type

Road environment

Area of concern Personal risk (regional comparison)

Alcohol & drugs Medium

Speed

Distract ion

Fatigue

Restraints

Young drivers

Motorcyclists Medium

Cyclists

Pedestrians

Older road users

Urban intersections

Rural intersections

Rural roads

Collective risk

(Syr AVG DSI)

45

36

20

19

9

50

32

8

20

16

22

18

The Bay of Plenty contains a number of rural state highways with open road speed limits and carrying

significant volumes of traffic in both directions across difficult terrain. KiwiRap2 rates roads from one

to five stars, with one star being the least safe and five stars representing the safest routes. Figure xx

shows that overall, the proportion of travel on two star routes (effectively the lowest safety rating) is

significantly higher in the Bay of Plenty region (51%) than at the national level (33%) and the

neighbouring Waikato region (38%).

Figure 2: Proportion of state highway travel in each Kiwi RAP star rating

VKT

Region (x 1 0" VKT /year) 5-st:ars

Waika o 25. 19 55CX, 7% 0% Bay of Plenty 10.91 451Jt 5% 0% New Zealand 154.76 410% 28% 0%

Road safety promotion in the Bay of Plenty is primarily managed through the Road Safety Action Plans developed by each of the three sub-regional Road Safety Committees as well as a regional plan prepared by the Regional Council.

2 Th e New Zealand road assessment program me, which assesses the safety of the state highway road environment.

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