Tourists using New Zealand roads are having their say on driving conditions they encounter here.
The New Zealand Transport Agency is running a "visiting drivers project'' and 1500 drivers are being surveyed this week in Otago, Fiordland and the West Coast.
The survey began at Tarras yesterday.
Southern regional director Jim Harland said the aim was to identify the proportion of visiting drivers using Southern highways at this time of the year and to get some anecdotal information about visitors' perceptions of road and safety issues.
The results of the surveys - at Tarras, Fox Glacier and the Eglinton Valley on Milford Sound Highway - would form part of the agency's wider analysis of what could be improved on these routes, Mr Harland said.
The survey will have questions for locals, overseas drivers and drivers from other regions of New Zealand.
Asked if overseas tourists will be asked their opinion of New Zealand drivers, an agency spokeswoman said questions on driving experiences would be "open-ended''.
Survey teams will be at Fox Glacier tomorrow and the Milford road on Friday.
