Posts by Sacha
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Our scouting mission, as twere
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I've just seen Nat Torkington win an Emmy
Nah, can't be - not enough swearing :)
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Bike lanes would be nice but I don't hear these Super City folks talking about them...
Oh they're talking about them now - as an inconvenience to drivers on Dominion Road - where businesses apparently will cease unless folk can park cars right outside their street frontage at all times. A cycle lane would interfere with that pursuit of commerce even more than those wasteful bus lanes, and that's enough reason for C&R.
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Be interesting to know where 'Adolf' gets his figure of $250m, given that it's several times more than the one we've seen elsewhere.
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I'm afraid you'll just have to bring 2 other people, darn it. :)
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So bad for productivity - and for the economy in other ways. We spend a fortune on travel compared with cities who have good public transport.
Do read that Gordon Campbell interview with Len Brown. It's good, as Russell says. Hope there will be a similar one with Banks so voters can make informed decisions.
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Transport is a key issue partly because people are not clear where the balance of influence in fixing it lies between central and local government - which is the elephant in the room with the whole 'super' city thing.
Dealing with Joyce, English et al over big projects like the cbd rail loop requires skilled advocacy rather than craven toadying or flaky waffling. Although Bob Harvey managed to convince Cullen to go ahead with the major New Lynn rail/town centre development over the long objections of advisors, so steel does not always come from where you'd expect.
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Actually they are both regional
Eh? I was talking about ARC and Ak City in context of the waterfront stadium mention. One is regional and one local, with different responsibilities as set up in the 2002 Local Government Act. Which two Councils are you thinking of?
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Banks impassioned statement that Brown wanted to divide the city up on race
I do wish our media would call out silly old fossils who confuse the Treaty with "race". Herald obediently repeats the lie.
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It does rather stupid to have two independent local councils operating in the same geographic area.
Only one is local, the other regional - like most of NZ other than the top of the South Island.