Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: Review: Lana Del Rey, 'Born…, in reply to linger,
all in the best possible taste
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Hard News: Review: Lana Del Rey, 'Born…, in reply to linger,
meaningless songs in very high voices
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Hard News: Staying Alive, in reply to George Darroch,
Driving a car is a privilege. Having sat with a number of drivers whose inadequacies scare me, I think there's call to have people take supervision about once per decade, and if necessary have those people referred for further training. This wouldn't address the wilfully dangerous, but it would greatly increase safety for the rest of us.
Totally agree. How we pay for road safety is a political choice. Ongoing carnage and privatised medical care is one way..
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Hard News: Staying Alive, in reply to Maz,
Could we please start doing things right and not half-arsedly?
As a nation, we have tolerated cheap and short-sighted far too readily.
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Hard News: Staying Alive, in reply to BenWilson,
selling it to user-pays society is the hard part
And that's what the political left has to show it's capable of doing again.
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Hard News: Staying Alive, in reply to BenWilson,
Driver training is quite costly, though. Hard to see any way around that.
Subsidised or free compulsory training paid for from taxes and transport-user fees? Not that hard.
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Hard News: Staying Alive, in reply to Carol Stewart,
the only mishap he ever had was when he collided with a wild boar in the forest
couldn't resist
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Hard News: Staying Alive, in reply to BenWilson,
It will also border on a surreal level of cycling infrastructure to cross right through the middle of the busiest motorway junction in the country
Then you'll love the proposed future from the draft central city masterplan - scroll about halfway down until you find an picture of this:
A more expensive, and long-term, project would involve the ‘capping’ of the motorways through parts of Grafton Gully, and then building open space sports fields on top of that cap. That’s Wellesley Street winding its way through the new area, looking towards the domain.
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Hard News: Staying Alive, in reply to Christopher Dempsey,
without political interference
A classic example was the former Auckland City Council's C&R councillors headed by Mr Hay (with Banks as ceremonial frontpuppet, a role he seems to relish) demanding that the bus lanes all be marked with blue paint because green was the colour of the opposition City Vision bloc. Seriously.
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Hard News: Staying Alive, in reply to Christopher Dempsey,
I have, along with others such as Pippa Coom, have been arguing that engineers should as a matter of course incorporate cycle features in renewal works.
Good stuff. I imagine permanent cycle lanes need less costly sub-surface treatment than other vehicular lanes. That should also be an attractive cost-benefit argument (unless the engineering profession firmly believes they all need to be build to carry trucks for when the cycling fad passes).