The long-standing public campaign to lower the speed limit in George St, Port Chalmers, is due to be considered by councillors at a full council meeting today.
And the council is continuing to push for a lower speed limit than the one the NZ Transport Agency is proposing.
At today's meeting, the council will sign off on its submission to the NZTA on the George St speed limit.
As part of the agency's national speed management review it is consulting on two Otago State Highway speed limits, proposing lowering the limit on State Highway 1 through Waihola from 70kmh to 50kmh, and at George St (State Highway 88) in Port Chalmers from 50kmh to 40kmh.
A letter to the agency from Dunedin Mayor Dave Cull, attached to council senior transportation engineer Kyle Martin's report, indicates the council's support for the reduction, but asks the agency to go further.
"We continue to recommend a 30kmh speed limit be adopted rather than the proposed 40kmh speed limit,'' Mr Cull writes. ``We feel a lower limit is desirable due to the large number of heavy vehicles frequenting this section of highway, as well as the large number of pedestrians in the town centre (particularly during the cruise ship season).''
He says the further reduction to 30kmh through the suburb, and the main port of the city, would reduce the potential for fatal car versus pedestrian crashes by 18%.
A spokeswoman for the transport agency confirmed a 1km stretch of State Highway 94 in Milford Sound was the only other place in the state highway network where a 30kmh speed limit was permanently in place.
