DRIVING IN NEW ZEALAND

Autumn drive

DRIVING IN NEW ZEALAND

With increasing numbers of tourists visiting New Zealand and wanting to drive themselves around the country, there has unfortunately been an increase in road deaths.  Like Britain and Japan, New Zealand is a left hand drive country. However, many of the tourists arriving are from places where they drive on the right. To add to the problem, New Zealand has no motorways connecting any city. They only extend a few kilometres from the centres of Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin. Expressways can be found approaching Tauranga,  Hamilton and between Napier and Hastings. Auckland does have a network of motorways but these are often congested and don’t allow for the high speed driving found on the motorway systems of Europe and the USA. read more