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.
OK, but this is talking about urban speed limits, whereas National’s focus is mostly on open road limits.
No it isn’t, they’ve said they’re rolling back both
They’ve said they’re rolling them back unless it wouldn’t be safe to do so, and most of their press talks about open road limits.
It sounds like most of the urban limits will stay.