Public Address | Cafe | Random Play: Food for Thought https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address Matthew Poole https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-food-for-thought/?p=57588#post57588 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-food-for-thought/?p=57588#post57588

Does anyone know why, after Transit built a no-doubt expensive motorway spur to the port, trucks still use Symonds St?

Not that I was a student at the time, but I imagine that truck traffic has reduced a lot since the port link was built. Trucks are common, but it's…

]]> Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:14:11 +1200 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-food-for-thought/?p=57569#post57569 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-food-for-thought/?p=57569#post57569

"unless they're damaged, or they're by Paul Holmes, we'll take anything."

Classic...

]]> Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:23:16 +1200 Alistair McBride https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-food-for-thought/?p=57558#post57558 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-food-for-thought/?p=57558#post57558 Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:59:01 +1200 Rich of Observationz https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-food-for-thought/?p=57489#post57489 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-food-for-thought/?p=57489#post57489 Does anyone know why, after Transit built a no-doubt expensive motorway spur to the port, trucks still use Symonds St?

Is it just so the truckies can ogle the students – Auckland Uni boys aren't *that* hot...

]]> Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:08:55 +1200 Shep Cheyenne https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-food-for-thought/?p=57477#post57477 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-food-for-thought/?p=57477#post57477 How hard is it to be to the left of Helen Clark?

Her historic hero is Olly Cromwell.

]]> Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:10:16 +1200 Julian Melville https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-food-for-thought/?p=57475#post57475 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-food-for-thought/?p=57475#post57475 I was wondering, given that honking your horn was taken as a sign of support, just exactly how you were supposed to show your displeasure of the truckie protest and how anyone else would know. Projectile weapons?

But, given the breathless coverage from most of the media "I'm sitting in…

]]> Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:09:17 +1200 Angus Robertson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-food-for-thought/?p=57472#post57472 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-food-for-thought/?p=57472#post57472 And if you can’t be bothered with the boring maths then Aucklanders might like to stand on Symonds Street on any given day, somewhere around the university where scores if not hundreds of students are crossing the road. That this narrow, pedestrian-heavy, tree-lined road through what is now the centre… ]]> Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:58:32 +1200 Craig Ranapia https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-food-for-thought/?p=57458#post57458 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-food-for-thought/?p=57458#post57458 Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:41:44 +1200 Craig Ranapia https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-food-for-thought/?p=57456#post57456 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-food-for-thought/?p=57456#post57456

Plus there's an awful lot of dross surrounding the odd gem, so it's a big process to find stuff. I miss the old-style DJ-oriented record shop, where the counter person would sus what you were into and hand out armfuls of vinyls to listen to.

And that's fine, as far…

]]> Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:39:36 +1200 philipmatthews https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-food-for-thought/?p=57450#post57450 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-food-for-thought/?p=57450#post57450 Mon, 07 Jul 2008 10:53:05 +1200 Evan Yates https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-food-for-thought/?p=57441#post57441 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-food-for-thought/?p=57441#post57441 Mon, 07 Jul 2008 09:50:14 +1200 Rich of Observationz https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-food-for-thought/?p=57424#post57424 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-food-for-thought/?p=57424#post57424 On truckies. I'm surprised nobody in government mooted the idea of a 10c petrol tax rise in order to keep heavy truck RUCs down. Because that's what it amounts to – *somebody* has to pay.

And I see that the people of Great Barrier
are demonstrating at having to…

]]> Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:46:00 +1200 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-food-for-thought/?p=57423#post57423 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-food-for-thought/?p=57423#post57423 Discussion from blog post.

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