Posts by Sacha
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Speaker: Party Central, structures and silos, in reply to DexterX,
The time for such options has been and gone some years ago, which is why I didn't address it. Might have made sense in many ways.
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Speaker: Party Central, structures and silos, in reply to Raymond A Francis,
he seemed to take full credit for the so called "disaster" and was not prepared to enter into a slanging match with the Goverment
Brown has behaved consistently and honourably since that first Friday night and earned my respect for it. In contrast, Key's first response was to pin it all on Veolia and he's said little since. McCully clammed up for a few days until he delivered his fait accompli. Hopefully people still pay attention to character in electing leaders.
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Speaker: Party Central, structures and silos, in reply to Raymond A Francis,
promised officals on every train carriage and plenty of buses and as we know these were not delvered
Veolia's undertakings after the recent Bledisloe Cup dry-run are certainly part of the independent review commissioned by Auckland Transport. Those extra elements seemed to work well this weekend - and would have been implemented whether or not the government did anything different.
maybe ensure paid officals do what they are paid to do
The transport review will no doubt touch on that and Len Brown on yesterday's Q&A show was promising broader action after the tournament is out of the way.
What he and Auckland's elected Councillors and Local Board members can actually do will be an interesting test of the new structure. And watch for election season chest-beating from Ministers too.
Two streaming TVNZ clips:
Interview with Brown (14 mins).
Panel discussion (9 mins), including Michael Barnett who has had a pretty prominent role in preparations over the past years.
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Speaker: Party Central, structures and silos, in reply to BenWilson,
the waterfront stadium idea
I liked Richard Simpson's suggestion of a Carlaw Park stadium rather than blocking prime waterfront with a looming ten-storey blob that contrary to artists' impressions would not have been semi-transparent.
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Discussion of the female orgasm is however alive and well at the Lady Garden.
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Speaker: Party Central, structures and silos, in reply to Russell Brown,
Last Friday was ... special.
I'm having flashbacks of that scary mugshot from the Blend..
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Speaker: Party Central, structures and silos, in reply to Sacha,
Auckland Transport tweeted totals last night
Also numbers TO last night's game:
22,300 used public transport to get to #EdenPark. 10,930 by special event bus and 11,370 by trains
So more people took the train from the game than to it. Maybe some reassuring word of mouth at the stadium?
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Speaker: Party Central, structures and silos, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
There was such a drop-off in passengers
The Mayor on the Q&A show this morning said the numbers using public transport to the game were the same as the previous week. Auckland Transport tweeted totals last night:
23,300 used public transport from the #RWC2011 match at #EdenPark. 13,100 on trains and 10,200 on special event buses
I haven't seen numbers only to the stadium for the previous week yet, only some network-wide totals that also included regular commuters and the crowd at the waterfront.
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In case it comes up, here's a little about the Auckland region's local RWC coordination group, which as noted works operationally with the government's various RWC efforts coordinated through the Ministry of Economic Development.
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Speaker: Party Central, structures and silos, in reply to Kumara Republic,
I guess someone has to make Farrar seem lucid. :)