TOP QUOTE: “The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people’s money.”
They breed quite easily.
I am sure this will be proven at work soon, young guy has twice rolled his car recently. He Thinks its funny.
He's having 'issues with GF'.
Heavy drinking at weekend etc
Expecting him to say she's pregnant quite soon. Yeah that's a good plan, for long term relationship.
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Any speed limit changes coming soon or are those just rumors?
Yes, sadly. NZTA has an official map of all the new coming limits. Someone could prob do an OIA request to see it.
But basically any road that is not a motorway will be 80k or less, many urban areas be 40 or 30 etc...
They are drip feeding out the changes so there isn’t a massive backlash by public but it is coming.
A govt mp mentioned all this in radio interview few months ago
Govt gives you nothing because it creates nothing - Javier Milei
Chris Hipkins announced only a few days ago that a lot of the proposed speed limit changes are now not going ahead.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politi...NMJREI4TIHPQM/Narrowing the speed reduction programme to focus on the most dangerous one per cent of state highways, where there are the highest numbers of deaths and injuries and where local communities support change.....On speed limit changes, Hipkins said they would only reduce in the areas of high numbers of death and injuries. There would still be targeted reductions around schools and marae.
There does seem to be a bit of a change of direction with chippy in charge. We'll see if it comes to anything.....
It looks a lot like they're taking the cyclone recovery as a chance (excuse?) to ditch a bunch of stuff that was being done to keep fringe groups happy, and concentrate on things that actually matter towards keeping the country functioning.
A bit hard to justify spending money on running around replacing road signs for some minor perceived risk reduction, when there is a massive amount of money needed for replacing entire roads.
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The only speed limit I acknowledge in this universe is the speed of light.
I thought elections were decided by angry posts on social media. - F5 Dave
Yes I saw that in news, that is correct in short term.
But it remains that the road management authorities are liable under OSH if they do nothing. So that along with greens anti-car/truck mantra will keep it slowly ticking over.
As the other two posters mention it’s part of the policy bonfire to keep potential labour voters warmed up along with cost of the signage. Like a pentagon hammer purchase it prob costs ten k every time they change a sign.
Govt gives you nothing because it creates nothing - Javier Milei
Not change of heart ... just a simple change of priorities. Extreme weather events have that effect on Government policies and planning.
To NOT do so ... might mean a few terms with the Party spent on the back benches.
The number of voters that (currently) do not have a home to live in ... could easily change the party in power after the next election. Or (depending on this Governments actions now) not.
The scale of the devastation will mean ... ALL promised spending (everywhere else in the Country) can be scaled back ... or just simply put it on hold (again).
Watch this space ...
When life throws you a curve ... Lean into it ...
I have access to the 'secret' map, as do a few others on here. Some 100's and 110's, single lane rural roads become 80 unless they are unsealed when they become 60. Most urban roads are 30, busier ones are 40.
What is funny about this is NZTA soon realised that they did not have the 'social licence' to do wholesale speed limit reductions so they have been kicking that particular bucket around delaying things while at the same time coercing local authorities to do their own roads. Some have, some are working on it, but NZTA have got themselves off the hook now with the recent announcement.
They will still drop the speed limit outside schools, there is public buy-in to that even on good old KB. They will be forced into dropping urban speed limits if the highway passes through a town where the council have done all the side streets. I bet that is all we are going to see for now.
To be honest they shot themselves in the foot with this anyway. If TPTB were actually serious about speed management they would just say right, the default rural speed limit is now 80, the default urban speed limit is 30 and you all have 12 months to sort your shit out and get the signs up. The savings are not from the physical cost of installing all the signs, that's nothing in the scheme of things, it is the cost for all the speed management plans being written and all the consultation requirements around that. Did someone say gravy train?
I don't buy it for a second.
The most charitable I could be (in line with what you are suggesting) is that they've simply said 'now is not the right time' - as opposed to admitting the Policie(s) in question are fundamentally flawed.
And yes, Labour spending money it doesn't have to fix problems it created.
See what I mean by no real change...
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