Both major political parties have spent their Sundays promising to increase things.
Labour has committed to increase the number of public houses while National wants to increase speed limits on many roads.
Standing on the side of a busy state highway, in the rain, with his trusty choir stand, Christopher Luxon promised to let Kiwis drive faster than this Government.
"Since 2017 it's been reducing speed limits on many highways all over the country from 100km/h to 80km/h and that includes on this important stretch of State Highway 2 here in the Wairarapa."
There has been a wave of speed limit reductions as part of the Government's Road to Zero campaign.
"We want to ensure the speed limits are safe but we also want to take into account the economic effects of those speed limits," Luxon said.
But Labour leader Chris Hipkins said National didn't get the memo.
"I made an announcement on this earlier in the year, that we're reducing that work down to just the top 1 percent of the most at-risk roads in New Zealand, that's already happening."
But until we have safer roads, slower speeds could be a necessary evil.
"Reducing speed limits consistently results in less crashes, less harm on the roads. There's no argument about that, it's simple physics," said AA speed policy spokesperson Dylan Thomsen.
National would walk away from the target of reducing road deaths by 40 percent by 2030.
"What we're going to have a re-look at those targets to make sure we can have an achievable target. Even the government officials are saying the current target isn't achievable," said National's transport spokesperson Simeon Brown.
But it doesn't yet have a new one.
Asked how many people would die as a result of National's plan, Luxon deferred to Brown, who said: "This is about making sure the speed limits on our state highways are safe and appropriate."
Luxon said Labour "has let rip with its anti-car ideology".
Hipkins indeed let rip himself on Sunday at a Labour rally.
"A tax break isn't worth diddly squat if you don't have a job in the first place," he said.
He said it's Labour that is the party of nation-building.
"That is what Labour does. We clean up the mess left behind by National and we are still doing it."
He threw KiwiBuild caution to the wind and campaigned on a big housing promise.
"We want to supercharge our public housing programme by building another 6000 homes throughout New Zealand."
National's housing spokesperson Chris Bishop said: "It is now recklessly irresponsible for the Labour Party to turn up eight days from voting opening, throw some big numbers around and promise 6000 new state houses at the cost of $1 million per state house."
Labour's housing spokesperson Megan Woods said to judge the Government "on our record".
"We have delivered the most public houses of any Government since the 1950s."
Labour is hoping to block out the cries that it can't deliver to keep the troops rallied for the final half.
