Dunedin city councillors have backed planned changes to speed limits around some schools.
Council staff have reviewed speed limits across the network and identified eight more schools that would benefit from a proposal to create 40kmh ``variable speed limits''.
The schools were Bayfield High School, East Taieri School, Fairfield School, George Street Normal School, Logan Park High School, Dunedin North Intermediate and Sacred Heart School and Waitati School.
The new limits, designed to protect pedestrians and cyclists heading to and from school, would be in place from 8am-9.30am and 2pm-4pm, if approved.
The council has also identified areas in which existing 40kmh variable speed limits could be expanded, as well as tweaks to other permanent speed limits on some city roads.
The council had already introduced the new temporary 40kmh limits outside five Dunedin schools - Carisbrook School, Kaikorai Valley College, King's and Queen's High Schools and Wakari School - in 2015.
Councillors at yesterday's infrastructure services and networks committee meeting voted to endorse the next round of changes for public consultation.
The consultation will run from October 23 to November 20 and be followed by a public hearing, if required, in December.
Changes, if confirmed, will be introduced next year.
