Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: Mercury Special, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
Great idea :)
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Muse: DIGITAL LINKY LOVE, in reply to Andre Alessi,
Boobage
now it sounds like a place when you capitalise it :)
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boob-age
How old is that? #alloneword
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More interference from central government - Joyce gets the review he wanted of the cbd rail tunnel business case.
It’s particularly interesting to see how divergent the Council and Government’s views are on major things like the level of transportation benefits and wider economic benefits.
Here’s the Council’s media release:
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”The need for the tunnel is now urgent,” says Len Brown “Within two years most of the useable train paths in and out of Britomart will be in use, providing virtually no room to add future services at a time when public transport patronage is going through the roof.”
“The rail tunnel will unlock unused capacity across the whole rail network,” says Len Brown. “It will double the number of trains that can go through Britomart, let Aucklanders and freight more move around the region more easily, and reduce congestion on our roads."
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Auckland Council and Auckland Transport have advised that combining the conventional transport benefits from their policy case, and estimating WEBs based on the policy case equates to total benefits of $1,863 million or up to $3,868 million if regional economic benefits are included. This equates to a total benefit to cost ratio of between 1.1 and 2.3.
Central government officials have considered these additional WEBs in light of best practice and conclude that due to a number of evidential and methodological issues they are not appropriate for inclusion in the economic assessment.
That decison dramatically reduces the project's Benefit-Cost Ratio:
That the re-calculated BCR consistent with the NZTA Economic Evaluation Manual used for roading projects was 0.3; with the additional wider economic benefits taking it to 0.4
Why, that's even lower than the holiday highway. How convenient.
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Hard News: Someone has to be accountable…, in reply to 3410,
Why isn't Campbell Live "across" this?
Too complex for tv?
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Hard News: We are all Twitter, in reply to nzlemming,
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Hard News: We are all Twitter, in reply to Steve Parks,
Is Facebook public? I can control who reads what I put on it, can't I?
You can, but many don't.
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Speaker: Bad Aid: How Murray McCully is…, in reply to Tony Parker,
the expert trying to protect a perceived priviliged position
yes, standard neolib twaddle
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Hard News: Someone has to be accountable…, in reply to Russell Brown,
But aren't y'all supposed to crowdsource that sort of thing and tell me?
wouldn't want to be labelled a pendant :)
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Hard News: Someone has to be accountable…, in reply to Adam Gifford,
Any intention to pitch a Herald story along those lines, Adam?