If it wasn't bad enough, when the protest happened on the Auckland Harbour Bridge and the Government made that announcement about the Auckland cycling bridge, which has gone down like a lead balloon, it looked like a very strong reaction to a protest. Even being generous in my thoughts around this, if it had been planned for some time, it was a very tone-deaf announcement to do it at that time, when the Ashburton bridge was out because of floods, and people were struggling to get where they needed to go because of those awful floods that hit Canterbury.