Auckland & Transport Minister Simeon Brown's insanity

After battling hard to increase speed limits around schools and high fatality roads, Simeon sets his sights on something much bigger: road cones.

Excuse me, but I just don’t feel like being polite today. What is going on with Simeon Brown? I mean, really?

After spending valuable Ministerial time, focus, and government resources to overturn tailored speed limits in school and high fatality zones that *checks notes* reduces the risk of deaths and injuries, and intentionally kill off cyle-ways that *checks notes* protects cyclists’ lives and reduces emissions, and disallow Councils to implement “road safety or calming measures”, Simeon announced yesterday that he’s now going after the big one: road cones.