Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: Done like a dinner, in reply to Paul Campbell,
The problem is that we've put all the companies that should be cooperating to do this competing against each other
and now we're selling them off to lock that in. Fricking geniuses.
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Hard News: Done like a dinner, in reply to Paul Campbell,
some fool government is paying to give the fibre rights to the same company that provides the copper infrastructure and there's no competition, no incentive for them to hurry up and install.
another piece of negotiating genius from the same clowns.
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Hard News: Done like a dinner, in reply to Kumara Republic,
What we're seeing is the utter hypocrisy of being told the cupboard's bare
and this, yes
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Hard News: Done like a dinner, in reply to Paul Campbell,
There have been some bad decisions in the past about Auckland's urban design and transport networks, but other cities around the world manage trickier geography than ours. We have a sad history of short-sighted council decision-makers and plenty of central government interference. More motorways was never the smartest answer.
The problem politically with infrastructure investment is the time lag between the decision and the need. Two thirds of the country's population growth in the next 20 years will be in Auckland alone. When it takes 5-10 years to get projects started, we can't wait until that's evident - but it does require a far better job of persuading everyone to do it. And that building flash motorways across the countryside is not a good use of limited public funds compared with better rail and busways in the Auckland region. Or broadband everywhere. Or local roads. Or jobs and services closer to where people live.
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Hard News: Done like a dinner, in reply to Sacha,
( a rare visit to Kiwibog may have reminded me of this)
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I love the way you folks know stuff. Informed conversation is such a pleasure to behold.
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Hard News: Done like a dinner, in reply to Paul Campbell,
we could solve some of Auckland's problems
Seen this pop up in recent discussions about transport and housing, provoked by our region's draft unitary plan and the government's responses.
People increasingly preferring to live in bigger cities is not unique to New Zealand (though we only have one large one). Scale-dependant professional and cultural opportunities and infrastructure mean that spreading electricity and businesses around the country is not necessarily the common-sense solution that it seems at first glance.
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Hard News: Done like a dinner, in reply to Paul Campbell,
that line you'd like to put in would go through Fiordland Nat Park - roughly where they are arguing about monorails
genuine high voltage adventure tourism #sorted
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Hard News: Done like a dinner, in reply to Paul Brislen,
Unfortunately we have no vision for ICT
I'm sure someone wrote about that recently.
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Hard News: Done like a dinner, in reply to Thrash Cardiom,
good point, yes