Posts by Sacha
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Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
And why is he overseas talking to the reinsurers?
Because the government does have power to negotiate. Spot the contradiction.
Or you're right.
He's wasting our money then
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Hard News: Just don't call it "Party Central", in reply to Glenn Pearce,
Isn't hindsight wonderful
That's why there are professional event planners. What caused the gap between actual crowd numbers on the day and whatever number they were catering for?
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Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…, in reply to Joe Wylie,
Prime Minister John Key admits he is bothered
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Field Theory: Four Years Ago, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
Perhaps one potentially useful thing to come out Len’s inquiry will be some clear statements of simple physical and resource limitations in play.
Ex regional transport committee chair Joel Cayford explains in some detail why to him it's a matter of safety.
Decades of neglect and under-funding are the fundamental reason for the fragility of Auckland's commuter rail system. Central and Regional Government each share some of the responsibility for the delicacy of Auckland Rail which comes under strain at peak time - like any network system.
But it's not that simple. We should be able to do better with what we have. The public should be able to rely on the institutions that are responsible for governing and operating Auckland commuter rail to provide services that are safe - irrespective of the delicacy or robustness of the network. It should not be up to the public to carry out a risk assessment everytime they give up their cars and follow advice to take public transport.
Auckland Rail is an accident waiting to happen in peak times.
...Auckland Council must now prioritise passenger safety, and the funding of projects that increase public safety and service reliability - especially at peak travel times because that is when the risk is greatest.
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Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Brownlee seems both clear and unrepentant in that article.
The Government expectation was for insurance companies to honour policies, but it was not in a position to put pressure on insurance companies to go outside policy settings, he said.
"The harsh lesson for everyone is to read the policy document and know what they will allow.
"The problem for some people is it's not the damage to the house, it's the damage to the land that's the problem and that's not an easy fix," Brownlee said.
"We think the offer on the table is fair and we will not be changing that."
No, the government has no power to negotiate with those big bad insurance companies. So what was he doing for months?
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Field Theory: Four Years Ago, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
Any investigation that looks at transport in isolation of the factors that drove the waterfront crowd size is not to be trusted.
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Field Theory: Four Years Ago, in reply to Kumara Republic,
If AKL public transit is indeed being set up to fail
Any details or links?
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Field Theory: Four Years Ago, in reply to Just thinking,
Blaming the Greens is a bit of a stretch. Water supply contracting already happened in the Auckland region in the 1990s under National govts, rolled back the following decade.
Rodney Hide's recent local govt act amendments extended the maximim term to 35 years so it's even more lucrative for foreign water operators. Some of the fuss about Maori seats on Auckland Council was not unrelated. Similarly, the govt overthrow of ECan.
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Hard News: Towards the Truth, in reply to Russell Brown,
I'm getting a bit tired of it
Is their default setting not to share anything?
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Overall the govt is being quite successful in blaming Auckland's Council and agencies for Friday's failures - Key smoothly laid the responsiblity there in a soundbite on Radio NZ news. Completely unchallenged.
Meanwhile, Labour's Grant Robertson focuses on Key's speech during the opening ceremony.