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Adam H

Sat, 24 Mar 2018 20:05:49 +1300

I went and looked up Sparrows, and found this :)

Thanks for the steer.

Moz

Thu, 22 Mar 2018 14:30:50 +1300

Is the sharrow concept widespread in Akld?

I've seen them in Oz, but they're very, very rare. Most councils prefer the "dead cyclists" painted in the door zone to remind us what happens when we ride there. Our council has largely stopping doing that after a certain small group pointed…

nzlemming

Wed, 21 Mar 2018 16:07:30 +1300

In a previous life, I ran the old gummint website NZGO where I'd get a lot of email from a lot of people. Some I'd answer, some I'd forward on to departments asking them to answer, some I'd toss straight into the bit recycler*. Penny Bright's regular missives always went…

Russell Brown

Wed, 21 Mar 2018 15:01:28 +1300

But neither has the education roll-out on sharrows been that good by the CCC.

We have them on Point Chev Road, but I only discovered what they were for quite recently.

Mike O'Connell

Wed, 21 Mar 2018 14:28:28 +1300

Good piece Russell. When you're in Chch next and have the opportunity, would be interesting to get your thoughts on the =ves and -ves of the emerging Chch cycleway network. They are not universally popular by any means.

Is the sharrow concept widespread in Akld? In Chch, they…

Bart Janssen

Wed, 21 Mar 2018 13:12:29 +1300

retailers will see works for as long as 18 months, some of that time with their footpaths dug up. AT and the local board really need to work on minimising the impact of construction time on those businesses.

This is a real problem with the way things are being done…

Bart Janssen

Wed, 21 Mar 2018 12:55:48 +1300

Nature Baby and their view of their clientele

It's interesting how really wrong most business owners are in their perception of their own clients.

The elitist view that most of their customers are rich and would therefore drive their BMW SUVs to the shop rather than busing is kinda revolting.…

TracyMac

Wed, 21 Mar 2018 11:24:50 +1300

Regarding Nature Baby and their view of their clientele, obviously I'm not welcome there. I go almost every time I'm in Auckland for various gifts (often into the 100s of dollars range), and guess what, I take the bus from wherever I'm staying to get there. So I won't be…

Russell Brown

Wed, 21 Mar 2018 10:58:52 +1300

Not willingly. And hopefully not recently. The Lisa Prager/Penny Bright show periodically forced itself on the Greens over the years and abused our/their tolerance. If that institutional memory of their appalling behaviour has been lost, that’s a shame.

Fair enough. I do recall being told off by Nandor years ago…

LeighKennaway

Tue, 20 Mar 2018 21:29:24 +1300

Big sigh, as it all comes back to me.....
Parking on Meola Road – I remember getting the Motat II car park sealed about 15 years back, and concrete stairs put in between the upper area and Seddon Fields in an attempt to encourage more soccer players to park there…

Omatai

Tue, 20 Mar 2018 20:45:06 +1300

Some of the local Greens did get rather too close to that crowd for a while.

Russell Brown

Tue, 20 Mar 2018 17:15:09 +1300

Prager’s protest against felling the pine trees between West View Road and the Zoo is particularly barmy.

That was incredible. The pinus radiata there are at end of life – 55 have died in the past three years. And they're falling. It would be utterly reckless to leave them.

Everything…

Helga

Tue, 20 Mar 2018 15:38:51 +1300

We’d kill a few fewer pedestrians, maybe?

Rickai

Tue, 20 Mar 2018 15:20:01 +1300

Prager's protest against felling the pine trees between West View Road and the Zoo is particularly barmy. I'm sure the Green Party are stoked that she is using the back of their election signs for her placards.

C Kilgour

Tue, 20 Mar 2018 14:46:14 +1300

I would love to see angle parks set up so you want to reverse in and can rejoin the traffic safely on leaving.

andin

Tue, 20 Mar 2018 14:07:03 +1300

it’s wrong to try and slow down traffic.

Slogan Huh!
We should slow the whole pace of life down me thinks! Fuck just the traffic. We just dont need to live life at a frenetic pace. Only arseholes want that, just so they can gloss over their fuck ups and…

Sacha

Tue, 20 Mar 2018 12:50:09 +1300

If you want to help, it's best to know what you're talking about.
And it helps if media do not regurgitate nonsensical talking points without basic journalistic fact-checking.

Ms Bright repeatedly justifies her refusal to pay rates by claiming that AT and the Council are 'breaking the law' by not…

Russell Brown

Tue, 20 Mar 2018 12:14:20 +1300

Here's AT's project page for Richmond Road (West Lynn) and Westmere.

It includes a survey for residents. I'd urge anyone who lives in the area and doesn't want these ghastly people to ruin the whole thing to do the survey.

Russell Brown

Tue, 20 Mar 2018 12:00:53 +1300

4 way stops – that means cars stop at every intersection, and never really get up to speed

Oh, I meant to say: the Occupy people’s new line, trotted out at the meeting yesterday, is now that it’s wrong to try and slow down traffic.

I wish I was joking.

Martin Brown

Tue, 20 Mar 2018 12:00:00 +1300

Also helping driver behavior and courtesy in Cali and the US generally is personal injury liability and the probability of a tort.

Paul Campbell

Tue, 20 Mar 2018 11:46:44 +1300

Talking about cars acting in a more friendly manner – a few things I miss from living in California

– 25mph (40kph) speed limits in most communities (just not on main arteries)
– 4 way stops – that means cars stop at every intersection, and never really get up to…

Public Address

Tue, 20 Mar 2018 11:46:44 +1300

Discussion from blog post.