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.
30m is nothing in government budget. It’s so funny how they always mention the cost cause they know how tight we all are with money.
It would pay for quite a few teachers or nurses.
And it’s never just the sticker price when the polits burble this kind of nonsense in the media.
Based on a quick search of treasury’s budget publications I’ll assume 2022’s total government revenue to be 150b. 30m is 0.2% of that.
Holy shit! They’re prepared to dump 0.2% of the whole budget on a political football.
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.