Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: Mt Eden: Not a closing but an…, in reply to Bart Janssen,
An electric bike/rickshaw service?
You wouldn’t need many to cover those who aren’t disabled but still can’t do that climb.
There was a shuttle service for a while after buses were banned. Not sure what happened to it. But yes, some kind of e-bike rickshaw service would be great.
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Hard News: Mt Eden: Not a closing but an…, in reply to Grant McDougall,
Fair call. (In mitigation, I did this only once 15 or so years’ ago whilst visiting Auckland).
Of course – and back then there was no such prohibition. I went down into the crater with my kids, like everyone else.
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Speaker: Blinded by the white, in reply to Joe Wylie,
Good old whakapapa. Something you’re happy to invoke when it suits, yet how utterly wicked of me to entertain, even for a moment, that your self-made spot on the gravy train might have anything to do with your being the son of a unreconstructed Rogernome.
Whoa Joe. I’m really not keen on personal attacks, especially after last week’s stows. James is due a right of reply.
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And here's the "before" pic, taken in January 2015 by Pippa Coom. She says "all you could hear was car engines."
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Hard News: Mt Eden: Not a closing but an…, in reply to Grant McDougall,
If you ever go up to the top of Mt Eden, I highly recommend you do the following: walk down into the middle of the crater and lie down.
Yeah, don't. I'm sure it's awesome, but if everyone does it the crater will be destroyed.
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Hard News: Mt Eden: Not a closing but an…, in reply to James Littlewood*,
Still love the place. But haven’t really felt much like going back since. A truly foul experience of the place I call home.
To be fair, there are signs saying not to enter the crater. It's been prohibited for a long time because of the damage being caused.
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Hard News: Sunday People, in reply to Lilith __,
I may be a has bean.
So long as you've got a pulse, never.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Festive and Unconflicted, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
So it’s not just Kiwis the bullies that run Oz hate, they hate Australians too…
This is bizarre, isn't it? I've seen a couple of stories about the strict (and weirdly arbitrary) new liquor rules, but it clearly goes further than that.
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I rode over to and up Mt Eden for the first time in a while today. The exclusion of cars from the summit access road has been transformative – people now feel confident about using it on foot.
This morning there were people walking cycling and running up down, at whatever speed suited them. It really confirmed for me that closing the road to cars was the right call.
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Hard News: Sunday People, in reply to ,
That story made the ex-hoarder in me’s day. I’m really happy for that Jed.
He seems to have already got the pads working, which is great.
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