Kawakawa

The New Zealand Transport Agency is reducing speed limits on multiple parts of state highways in the region, including part of State Highway 1.

The speed limit west of Kawakawa was lowered to 80 kilometres an hour in 2020 after 30 years of campaigning from locals, then raised to 100 kilometres an hour last year alongside the current government's reversals of speed limit reductions under Labour.

Now, the speed limit is set to go back down to 80 kilometres an hour, with the government acknowledging particularly high risks of crashes due to low visibility and significant bends.

Chair of AA's Northland District Council, Tracy Russetto, says that while she supports the reduction, her biggest concern is that the limits need to be kept consistent so that the public can adhere to them.

So New Zealand really was the beginning of my psychedelic neuroscience journey, which is kind of wild to say.

But when I was about ten years old, my family moved to, um, Kawakawa, which is a tiny little town, um, in the North Island.

And then we lived in Paihia as well.

And my dad was a doctor at a hospital in Kawakawa, and we had moved there from our very small town in Georgia, the Bible Belt here in the US.

And when I moved there, it was the first time that I was introduced to a lot of topics.

So it was the first time I learned that not everybody is Christian.

Go on.

Obviously, the Hundertwasser in Kawakawa.

And I used to stop there as well with tourists.

And I used to like to take the ladies into the men's when there were no men using it so they could see that if you haven't been into it, it's got three urinals and they're all different to one another.