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Napier-Taupo Rd: NZTA moots dropping SH5 speed limit from 100km/h to 80km/h 12 Apr, 2021 08:25 PM 6 minutes to read The Napier-Taupō Rd is deadly. Made with funding from NZ On Air. Hawkes Bay Today Driving down State Highway 5 between Napier and Taupō at 80 kilometres per hour? That's the new speed proposed by Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency as part of a series of changes to highways around the Hawke's Bay region. Waka Kotahi has proposed lowering the speed along the notorious road from 100km/h to 80km/h from Eskdale to just south of Rangitaiki - a distance of about 83km.