Safety fears spur call for speed limit cut

Waitati residents may not take too kindly to being told running across a highway to beat traffic is a dangerous strategy.

They have their own advice for transport officials — reduce the highway’s speed limit to make the area safer.

The area in question north of Dunedin includes a convenience shop on one side of State Highway 1 and a turnoff into the Waitati village on the other.

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