Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: Democracy Night, in reply to BenWilson,
Our rail network is for churning commuters into the city. For most other purposes, it's not extensive enough, whether you add a city loop or not.
Will be quite different when the bus routes are reconfigured as feeders to train stations, with integrated ticketing.
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Hard News: Democracy Night, in reply to Bart Janssen,
Mojo is deaf and Deaf.
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Hard News: Democracy Night, in reply to Joshua Arbury,
flooded with buses and cars
someone blogged about that recently. :)
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Hard News: Democracy Night, in reply to Sacha,
As I've said to a few journos, it's actually Deaf with a capital D for the community and NZ Sign Language for their language
Example number 1001 - along with the stereotypical leading with how someone became disabled (parallels with the undeserving poor, you know).
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Hard News: Democracy Night, in reply to BenWilson,
the idea that Auckland Central should have been all woody about it out of self interest. They're the electorate that will benefit least from it because they already live in the city, so commuting just isn't much of a hassle for them. I imagine most of them would want it anyway, though, who is ever against massive infrastructure spending right in their neighborhood?
Are you mixing up the city rail link with the separate inner suburban tram proposal that Nikki Kaye has been promoting in her campaign?
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Hard News: Democracy Night, in reply to slarty,
The main benefit of the extra rail link is to double network capacity across the whole region. Being painted as a CBD-focused thing but in conjunction with bus feeder and circle routes will transform how many people can reliably get around the whole place.
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Hard News: Democracy Night, in reply to Islander,
Ngati Turi
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Hard News: Democracy Night, in reply to Russell Brown,
I've learned some useful stuff. Just not widely valued. :)
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Legal Beagle: Referendum '11: counting…, in reply to Chris Waugh,
Referenda don't necessarily happen at the same time as elections, though, do they?
No, but it did this time. Hence one layer of verification might be enough when the impact of any errors/fraud in the referendum would be way more diluted than for electorate votes.
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Hard News: Democracy Night, in reply to Russell Brown,
they need to re-frame ideas around government and governance
I agree. Countering the idea of taxes as a "burden" (deliberately imported from neolib fellow travellers in the US and UK) will take way more effort than has been applied in the last decade. The Greens seem closer with their core message of "richer" this time.