Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: The Public Address Word of…, in reply to recordari,
gold
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Random Play: Alt.Republic: The rolling mall, in reply to Matthew Poole,
The Waterview link between the Onehunga and Northwestern motorways may free up St Lukes and Mt Albert roads a bit unless it's tolled too high or induced demand just puts more overall traffic on our roads.
Boosting public transport is an answer to that. The cbd rail loop allows more frequent train services along the western line. Buses should increase along Dominion Road's proposed dedicated buslanes. More frequent bus services along Balmoral Road could also remove some traffic.
But yes, it's hard to see how this could have been omitted from the consent hearings.
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Hard News: The Public Address Word of…, in reply to Megan Wegan,
A bunch of people pronouncing it twot last week completely threw me.
And I've never heard it said otherwise in real life. Interesting.
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Hard News: The Public Address Word of…, in reply to JackElder,
it sounds a bit too much like 'spatchcock' for me
Please don't tell me that one's pronounced 'spotchcock'
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Random Play: Alt.Republic: The rolling mall, in reply to Matt Wilson,
especially when the roads are clogged to the point of standstill
Certainly seems like a problem with my cunning plan
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All credit to Kerre Woodham for eloquently opposing a talkback perspective.
But I hope a few New Zealanders take a long hard look at their own conduct too. What on earth made many people, whose only experience with coal mines was driving past one, assume that they knew more than guys such as Pike River boss Peter Whittall - a man with nearly 30 years' experience in coal mining and a man who was a personal friend and colleague of most of the guys trapped?
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These were blokes who yearned to wear their undies on the outside of their trousers and play Superman for a day. I'm sure their motives were pure but if Dan Rockhouse, one of the survivors of the initial blast and a man with a brother trapped in the mine, understood the necessity of waiting, what gave armchair critics the right to criticise and worse - accuse the rescuers of deliberately sitting on their hands?
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Hard News: The Public Address Word of…, in reply to Kyle Matthews,
it felt like the year when twitter hashtags became part of the parlance
would you feel better about #twatcock then?
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Josh Arbury was suggesting a while ago that the small Baldwin Ave train station could be shifted to where St Lukes Road passes over the rail line, to provide simple vertical modal interconnection like the new Grafton station does and boost a more frequent circle bus route along St Lukes, Balmoral and Greenlane Roads.
Still need to get people from there to the mall, and it's about as far away as Morningside station is. Integrated ticketing will help and it's easy enough to run that shuttle bus in a loop I guess..
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Random Play: Alt.Republic: The rolling mall, in reply to recordari,
They could put a tram down it. Works in Christchurch
I doubt there'd be much of a tourist market for scenic Morningside :)
what about a high speed monorail?
Call it a hunch but I suspect a minibus might be simpler.
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Requiring the mall to provide a continuous free shuttle bus service to Morningside train station could have been a condition of approval. But hey, that might impinge on profits.