Early Edition with Kate Hawkesby

Road to Zero looks to be the highway to nowhere we all thought it would be. Another measure the Government has not delivered on, another piece of ideology that’s proven completely unworkable in the real world. We learn now, that three years into the Road to Zero campaign, we have exactly the same number of road deaths as when we started – in fact we are heading backwards in terms of how bad the road toll is. So what has it achieved? Nothing. It’s mental health beds and child poverty and housing and healthcare all over again. A lot of talk, not a lot of action. It’s sadly what we have come to expect as the norm from this Government. Road to Zero included increasing breath testing to prevent alcohol related road deaths. Have they achieved this so far? Nope. They “fell short of the target by almost half, with 1.6 million tests against a target of three million,” it’s been reported in Waka Kotahi’s annual report. Waka Kotahi said this was "well below desired levels," no kidding. What a surprise. So let’s look at