Alternative headline: National to spend $30m to sacrifice some of your lives so our trip is slightly faster.
The changes have been endorsed by transport researchers and street safety advocates as effective measures to help reduce the number of Kiwis killed and injured on the roads.
That’s all there is to it.
I can tell you from experience that 130 on the expressway doesn’t feel particularly fast either.
Fortunately you rarely see police north of Paraparaumu on that road.