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Many motorists don t want to see open road speed limits between Wairarapa towns come down. The road pictured shows a stretch of SH2 between Greytown and Featherston. Nick Leggett of trucking representative group Road Transport Forum said slowing travel times through Wairarapa would put a drag on the economy and frustrate motorists. He said the transport agency had an ideological obsession with lowering speeds instead of improving the network. “That’s why we’re getting ‘death by a thousand cuts’ on roads all around the country in lieu of actually spending some more money and improving the quality and therefore the safety of them.”
Yesterday, the Cycling Action Network installed a makeshift bike path on one of Wellington s busiest roads into the city.
The bike lane was made from a series of homemade wooden planter boxes to separate cyclists from motorists.
Wellington City Council quickly disassembled the cycleway yesterday afternoon by moving the wooden boxes onto the path, but this morning volunteers from the cycling group simply moved them back.
The activists took their planter boxes away again later in the morning, but Cycling Action Network spokesperson Patrick Morgan said they were not finished with them. We can build these pop-up bike lanes anywhere, today we re back in Berhampore, next week who knows where we ll be, Morgan said.