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.
As much political football as when it was implemented.
There’s always going to be things that other parties remove and I think 30m is not an amount we should be freaking out over.
I’d rather they didn’t do it but it doesn’t worry me if they do.