Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: The Waterview Bore, in reply to Sacha,
Alan Wood Reserve
Don’t know the area, but wondered where the kids from around there will gather and play now.
Most likely at the new 1400m square skate park on Richardson Road, or the new sports fields (replacing two old ones) or lookout point. The land was pretty scrappy and inaccessible for a long time, and it will have some facilities now. As you noted earlier on Twitter, it's a bit more nuanced than MOAR ROADS.
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Here's a bigger version of that panorama.
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Hard News: The Waterview Bore, in reply to Sacha,
You mean the parkland or the motorway?
The parkland. I was thinking you meant War Memorial Park, etc -- and the various reserves around Oakley Creek at my end.
Alan Wood Reserve of course, also, where the motorway extension is going now, but that was a pretty rough park. I'd generally be on my own riding through there,
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Hard News: The Waterview Bore, in reply to Sacha,
Note that the new motorway from Onehunga goes over the land reserved for the Avondale-Southdown rail link (hence the network of public parkland through Mt Roskill).
And who'd want to give that up now?
The strange thing is how Pak 'n' Save got permission to build a great big supermarket right on the reserved corridor.
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Looking each way at the Oakley Creek diversion at the south end.
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I went for a ride and took some pictures for y’all.
A panorama at the south end of the tunnel, and a look from the footbridge at the north end.
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This the the cycleway proposal.
We missed out on the sweet bridge at the Pt Chev end, but it's not bad.
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Hard News: The Waterview Bore, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
Actually, if you Aucklanders feel it’ll make life better turning the city into (more of) a mini-LA, go right ahead.
Well, I can’t stop pronouncing loftily from afar, so go right ahead yourself.
This is a motorway that has been under construction since the 1970s, and it does play an infrastructure role. I’m very glad that the more destructive options for the final stretch of it (which this is) were rejected under protest, and delighted to see more dedicated cycleway as part of the bargain.
I’m also looking forward to the SH16 causeway upgrade being completed (the crumbling cycleway will be fixed as part of that), but like Matthew, I’m very frustrated by the lack of provision for a bus lane.
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Hard News: The Waterview Bore, in reply to Sacha,
This project at least makes more sense than the provincial RONS projects.
Yes, that's how it seemed to me.
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Hard News: Music: Summer Season, in reply to Chip Matthews,
This was our Yacht Rock theme over the break:
This whole Yacht Rock thing ... it was the music I heard when I was too young to afford to buy records and had to listen to Casey Kasem's American Top 40 for kicks.
You kids weren't even born.
Also: that Fabulous Arabia album is looking pretty influential now, huh?
