Supplied 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.”