Posts by andrea quin
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How about huge quoting the summary then?
Entry into sex work
Entry into sex work was predominantly for financial reasons:
* 73% of participants needed money to pay for household expenses.
* Financial incentives were more important to female sex workers than to male or transgender sex workers.
* Nearly half of street-based, male and transgender sex workers had no other source of income.
* Flexibility of working hours and financial benefits were advantageous in terms of child care arrangements.Entry into sex work was also influenced by social factors, especially for street-based and transgender sex workers:
* More than half of street-based and transgender sex workers had friends in the industry prior to starting work in the sex industry
* Many participants were influenced by friends and family into entering the sex industryEntry into sex work was also influenced by identity factors:
* Many street-based and transgender sex workers thought sex workers looked like they were fun to be with and that the work looked exciting and glamorous.
* Sex work was also identified by male and transgender sex workers as a way of exploring their sexuality.The decriminalisation of the sex industry did not play a great role in reports of entry into the sex industry.
Information at entry into sex work* 62% of all survey participants reported sufficient information on starting sex work to keep themselves safe
* Nearly half (47%) of surveyed street-based workers reported that they did not have enough information
* 33% of surveyed street-based workers did not get any information when starting sex work
* Co-workers were the most often cited source of information on starting sex work
* Most managed workers received information from the manager or reception at their place of workExpected length of stay in the industry
* There was uncertainty in how long participants expected to stay in the industry.
* Sex workers who had only been in the industry for a short period of time, were more likely than long-term sex workers to report that they intended to stay in the industry for less than one year.Reasons for staying in the sex industry
Financial motives were key to staying in the sex industry.
* 82% of survey participants remained in the industry to pay their household expenses.
* 83% of survey participants valued the flexible working hours.
* 42% of survey participants liked the company of other sex workers.
* 43% of surveyed street-based workers said that all their friends were in sex work.
* 39% of survey participants enjoyed the sex.Payment for work, other than money
* Street-based workers were more likely than workers in other sectors to accept alternative forms of payment for sex.
* Street-based workers who had been in the industry for some time stressed that they would only accept money for their services.Benefits of working
Few participants reported no benefits of working in the sex industry.
The key benefits reported by participants were:
* They had more money.
* They had made new friends.
* They had survived.
* They enjoyed contact with the clients.
* They valued their independence, the flexibility of the work and the camaraderie with other workers.Some disadvantages reported in the qualitative interviews included:
* The continuing stigma of sex work and harassment by the general public.
* Many participants talked of the physical and mental stress of the work.Movement between sectors
* There was little movement between sectors reported in the survey for street-based and managed workers, but half of the private workers reported starting out working in the managed sector.
* Private workers reported moving into private work because it provided a safer working environment, where they could earn more and attract better clients.Exit from the sex industry
* 51% of all survey participants had stopped working in the sex industry at least once and then returned.
* The main reasons for returning to the industry were financial, but participants also reported missing workplace friendships and wanting time-out from their families. -
Buses do get stuck in traffic, but bus lanes and dedicated bus ways are being/have been/could be built to get around that problem. It is now much quicker to get the bus in from the North Shore to the CBD than it is to drive.
Applicant A will live on a preferred transport corridor whilst applicants B & C will not.
People can move and new people coming to the city (where much of Auckland's growth comes from) can choose where to live. If jobs are all over the place without any very high density area, they'll probably just live anywhere and resign themselves to driving. If many jobs are concentrated in one area and there are good transport corridors to that area, people can choose to live along those corridors and reasonably expect to find work in the CBD. Indeed, the CBD with the radial tram line system was built on this very notion. High density areas are still found along those historic routes.
Furthermore, the high quality transport network can be extended into the areas where B and C live. Creating half-arsed transport corridors to all of the population doesn't really make anyone happy and just leads to more sprawl.
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how can you reduce car travel by increasing the intensity of an urban centre whose predominant modes of access are motorways?
What Ben said...
Or, to greatly simplify the argument, if X number of people currently travel to work in the city and I build a PT system so that X+Y people can travel to work in the city with the same effort, it makes sense that the city and the area along the new PT corridor will intensify to take advantage of this. The car traffic may stay at the same level, but the city grows by Y people and those people use the PT to commute.
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and it's a beat-up '92 Corolla.
maybe this was the cause of her problems, old cars like that are easier to break into and more likely to be without an alarm.
I believe Auckland's employment patterns are considerably more distributed than they were 30 years ago.
Yes, I think it is something a little less than 20% of the regions jobs are in the CBD, low by comparison with other cities. i'm pretty sure it has gone down over the years though I don't know if that trend has reversed recently. If you increase that number and provide better PT to service it, intensification will occur along the PT corridors. Land close to those corridors will also become more valuable. Of course, these things feed off each other and often start with providing good PT and clear plans for its future.
It is also easier for people to plan where to live if there is a high concentration of jobs in one place -- currently, getting a new job can mean working in a whole new neighborhood. As a higher proportion of jobs move into the same neighborhood, there is less chance that a can of job would force that move.
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A supercity is a big diverse electorate, most of whom cannot access the rail network and will be asked to pay for this anyways.
Sure, the politics aren't easy in such a road and car based culture, but a good political leader should be able to steer this through ok. That's the point of politics, right?
I still think you underestimate the wider effects of something like this -- as the original post says, for every person that takes the train rather than drives, the traffic reduction benefit is calculated to be $17.
But a lot of this benefit may be invisible to road users until something goes wrong because of increased demand. Imagine the trains stopping and all the people who use them flooding the roads with cars. It would become pretty clear then that this alternative system is removing a huge load from the road network.
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Angus, noone is saying the rail network here is good and just needs a CBD loop to put the icing on the cake. At the same time, there is quite a lot of capacity in the existing system, with Britomart providing a bottleneck. (Note that Manukau and Waitakere are relatively well-served by rail and would probably appreciate the extra services that a CBD loop could accomodate). Yes, maybe some people want to go from Papakura to Henderson, but not that many. The CBD still provides the greatest concentration of jobs in the region and could be intensified further with better transport options. This isn't being taken as a first step in improving PT, there is loads of work going on in the region -- busways, bus lanes, improving existing rail lines, improved ticketing etc. The uptake in rail use has been fast and it shows a lot of potential, not least because it offers a system independent of the stressed road network. Because of the increased use, Britomart is reaching capacity and the rail tunnel could alleviate this as well as provding faster and easier access to the CBD for all those on the network. What makes you so convinced that it would be a failure? Or that other PT projects would come out so much better in a cost-benefit analysis? If there is a better idea out there, I'd love to hear it.
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The solution to that is to heavily ration parking space, and make it very expensive to take a private motor vehicle into the CBD or other areas that are similarly well-served by public transport.
You are not going to "solve" congestion. What is the point of having all these streets if you are so actively discouraging cars to drive on them? If you dont want cars there, don't let them in.
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I love driving in Auckland, it's so fast and easy. But Aucklanders tend to get really pissed off when I tell them that.
Yeah, Auckland is pretty easy to get around in a car except during rush hours along certain routes. And no amount of PT is going to stop traffic congestion -- if congestion goes down much, driving looks that much better and people jump in their cars. But Auckland is very hard to get around without a car and we're running out of space to squeeze in more cars.
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Angus, what are you basing all your opinions on? It seems to me like you are just making shit up.
tunneling under Albert Park
The prefered tunnel route doesnt go under Albert Park. INdeed, it doesn't have a station right next to the Universities (it follows Albert st more closely, with stops in Aotea Sq, K Road and the top of Symonds st.) Have a look at
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LOL andrea quin, you're always just that much faster than me
What can I say....I do my best.
It is kinda depressing how often all these tired old arguments come up and how easy it is for someone who has studied it at all can bat away the criticisms. But how do you kill a zombie?