Prosecution for speed
Speeding motorists on the Christchurch-Lyttelton Road Tunnel Authority’s motorway and in the tunnel will be prosecuted when caught, as in the past, and will not be served with speed infringement notices and asked to pay a fee—or prosecuted for not paying the fee. The authority at a meeting yesterday unanimously decided against introducing the speed infringement fee, under an amendment to the Transport Act.
The general manager (Mr L. E. Olliver) recommended that the infringement system be not introduced on the grounds of the cost of printing infringement notices, the small number of offenders involved, and on the ground of the authority being a collecting agency for the revenue account.
Mr Olliver said that in the last three years, the authority had prosecuted only 25 persons for speeding. The speeding offences (over 55 m.p.h. on the motorway and over 30 m.p.h. in the tunnel) had decreased in the three years because of regular patrols by the authority’s vehicles.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32540, 25 February 1971, Page 12
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