Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: Someone has to be accountable…, in reply to nzlemming,
the Victoria Park tunnel which was under way before the RoNS were ever heard of, so WTF?
Much like the Auckland rail network improvement programme, which Joyce is claiming as proof that his spending is balanced rather than obsessed with roads. And this from the plonker who has just halved the already modest budget nationwide for rail stations, bus shelters and other public transport infrastructure.
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Up Front: Respectably-Dressed Sensible…, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
DELETED SO AS NOT TO OFFEND SACHA’S DELICATE SENSE OF RELEVANCE
The thread's primary subject matter is delicate and unsettling, but editing your post to say that is just being bitchy. Seems there may have been other things I was unaware of rousing your ire about Curran but they don't excuse persisting with a poor line of argument - or playing the person when you're called on it.
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Up Front: Respectably-Dressed Sensible…, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
how much fucking effort does it take for Parliament to sort itself out?
What, like ruling consistently that sporting uniforms are not business dress? Not at all tricky for a half-competent Speaker.
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Up Front: Respectably-Dressed Sensible…, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
because I know a woman who owns some vintage Donna Karan suits
eh? new heights of irrelevance I'm afraid
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Up Front: Respectably-Dressed Sensible…, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
not so vague
You're trying too hard. Nothing "vague" about it in this case. Adding a pearl necklace does not affect the fact that a netball top and a rugby top are both local sporting uniforms. Either both are allowable "standard business dress" for women MPs in the debating chamber or neither is. Though the class overtones of the Speaker's inconsistent treatment could prove interesting..
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Hard News: Someone has to be accountable…, in reply to nzlemming,
just not labouring it
Others have made that case elsewhere, so perhaps.
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Up Front: Respectably-Dressed Sensible…, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
inconsistently applied
differently demure, perhaps? (with pictures)
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Rod Oram has superb analysis of Auckland's city rail link situation, including the politics - if you're going to read only one article about it, I recommend this one. Here are some of the core numbers:
In fact, the council and its consultants have done plenty of work on the alternatives and judged them to be highly unsatisfactory compared with the rail loop.
They reckon that an Auckland population of 2.2 million would result in another 500,000 vehicles if we stick to our existing road-dominant investment in transport.
But where would they go? Once the western link and Victoria Park tunnel are complete, there's no room left to build new or expanded motorways in the central isthmus.
Moreover, current rapid growth in passenger rail (from 2.5 million passengers in 2003 to 8.5 million this year) means Britomart's limit as a dead-end station of 21 trains an hour will be reached in 2013.
Similarly, there is a practical limit of 100 buses per hour per bus lane downtown. Some lanes are about to hit the limit. All the existing and planned ones will hit it by 2020.
Building a rail loop to open up Britomart, however, would allow up to 60 trains an hour. This would help maximise the existing 200km of passenger rail lines by, for example, allowing better bus services to local rail stations rather than running most services into the city centre. This would reduce the number of buses coming in from the west, allowing more buses to come from the north where there is no rail alternative.
Without the rail loop and allied reorientation of bus routes to train stations, the downtown bus volumes become horrendous, according to analysis done for the council last year on the impact of the next harbour crossing.
It concluded that the number of buses using Fanshawe St during the peak morning rush would rise from 86 per hour today to 246 per hour in 2041; from 77 per hour to 245 per hour on Albert St; and from 106 per hour to 318 per hour on Symonds St by the university.
Could any of the streets cope with a bus every 10-15 seconds?
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Telecom broadband network builder envisages a de-centred new Christchurch.
At the Tuanz Telecommunications Day conference in Wellington, Gen-i Australasia chief executive Chris Quin said all major urban centres could become, well, less centred. Instead of being the centre of all business, civil and social activity, the current CBD could become one of the larger hubs surrounded by other smaller ones.
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Mr Quin said change has already come to Christchurch. The city’s CBD was a “single point of failure” during the two earthquakes.
Many organisations have developed into temporary distributed business hubs in lesser affected areas on the outskirts of the central business district, like Addington and Fendalton.
“These temporary centres could develop into fully-fledged and integrated business hubs. Instead of having a single CBD, Christchurch could have several, smaller business centres, or hubs, within the suburbs surrounding the current CBD,” Mr Quin said.
Another trend: more and more white collar workers working from home.
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Southerly: One Hundred and Thirty-one…, in reply to Lilith __,
beautiful pre-quake-Chch porn. It makes Chch look like a toy ideal city.
surreal