Posts by John Farrell
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There is an answer to the Auckland housing problem, for some - 2 years ago, my daughter and son in law left Auckland for Dunedin - they despaired of buying a house in Auckland. Two months ago, they bought a house here - for just over $250,000.
It's 5 minutes from Michael's work, has schools and kindergartens in easy walking distance, and is 10 minutes from the city centre. -
I see the Herald has, next to its logo on its website, "search for content....".
Who says the MSM don't do irony?
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It must be reassuring for the right, to know that the threat was just capitalism in action.
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At least, for all its faults, the ODT is still a newspaper (and website) which covers a significant amount of local and regional news.
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Hard News: The CRL and the nature of change, in reply to Jim Cathcart,
If the world economy goes to hell in a handcart, Auckland's traffic woes will be solved. Other woes, though....
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Just to show you that lack of urgency in infrastructure projects is not confined to Auckland.....back in the 1960s the MOW started building a southern motorway out of Dunedin. The earliest part was built past Green Island. Then in the 1970s, they started buying houses in Caversham Valley, for the new road. Another part of the motorway was built, parallel to the railway, past Carisbrook in the 1990s.
The part of the "motorway", to link these, was opened last year. It still has traffic lights, and a 60k/h section up Caversham Valley Road.One part of the motorway that caused a lot of trouble, was the section past Fairfield. There were underground coal mines under the land - millions of tons of coal were extracted from here in the late 19th century. Expensive back filling was necessary.
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Hard News: The CRL and the nature of change, in reply to Sacha,
I wasn't necessarily agreeing with the ODT view - but I thought some might be interested in what some of those outside the hothouse think.
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http://www.dunedinrailways.co.nz/ runs commuter trains occasionally.
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"Of course Otago should get the same money as Auckland"
I didn't see that mentioned.
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Hard News: The CRL and the nature of change, in reply to Russell Brown,
Dean Mckenzie has his biases, too...