Posts by Sacha
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Speaker: Party Central, structures and silos, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
I've never understood why Symonds St didn't get weight and height limits after the the link road was built
Putting the wellbeing of truckies over tertiary students says a lot about the priorities of successive governments.
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Hard News: Chill out: it's a party, in reply to Steve Barnes,
We can sort it all out at the "After Cup Debriefing"
chill man, it's just a party
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Speaker: Party Central, structures and silos, in reply to BenWilson,
the boulevard proposal
It was by the developers of the adjoining Britomart precinct. Joel Cayford discusses briefly, with pictures.
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Speaker: Party Central, structures and silos, in reply to BenWilson,
Agreed
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Speaker: Party Central, structures and silos, in reply to BenWilson,
You can't see anything
At least the prospect of redeveloping those finger wharfs including Queens remains open - and the light is not being blocked by a ten-storey hulk. As an example, did you see the inside-the-red-fence public boulevard proposal some months back?
But hey, we're arguing over an imaginary stadium that will never be built. :)
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Speaker: Party Central, structures and silos, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
Moving the whole commercial port to somewhere near Howick/Whitford with dedicated road and rail freight links to the main trunk was mooted at some stage.
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Speaker: Party Central, structures and silos, in reply to BenWilson,
Views of anyone at ground level would have been permanently blocked. The port company was never going to let go of the container terminal. And there was no way major construction work to strengthen the finger wharves was possible before the tournament. But politics played a big part, for sure - with Mallard rather then McCully being govt's emissary to the provinces.
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Speaker: Party Central, structures and silos, in reply to BenWilson,
replace the container ships, stacks of containers, and mobile unloading cranes
Trouble was it would have been as well as those rather than instead of them. And being able to walk around the edge of something doesn't make up for not being able to see past it or use it without paying.
Princes Wharf is a prime nearby example of that failed promise, with the legal kerfuffle over the private occupier trying to deny even a modicum of public access that had been a condition of development.
So was being a cruise ship terminal, for that matter, but that industry has its hand out for further public subsidy of its shore facilities on either Queens Wharf or one of the adjacent ones if the public manages to assert itself.
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Hard News: LATE OCTOBER: Life in the…, in reply to Rich Lock,
no-one deliberately chooses to be the outsider
Au contraire. Most teens build an identity around both that and belonging. Some even make a career of it.
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Maybe someone should look at closing New North Road along the Kingsland strip on game nights
You'd think. The Herald story references the Council CEO about why not.
Auckland management committee chairman Doug McKay said thought had been given to closing a section of New North Rd at Kingsland but the police wanted it kept open for emergency services.
I'd welcome more detail about their reasoning, and about how this compares with previous publicity that the strip would be made pedestrian-only.