Posts by Steve Barnes
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in the good old days when industrial workers went for two pints before work, three at lunchtime and nine after...
Aye, when I were a lad...
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I quite liked the idea of a stadium down by the old Westfield freezing works on the Tamaki estuary. Well I remember it but I can't find anything on Google or anywhere else. A suppressed secret stadium conspiracy?.
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I am the only person in the world who loves that thingy!
No, it has 1689 freinds and has its own MySpace page.
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Nope. From the Wikipedia article on the stadium that never was:
Sorry Russ, I was referring to the current "party central" proposal.
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Oh, I see now, pinstripes ? dunno.
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To be fair, it was the Auckland City leaders who said yes please, and the ARC that decided it might inconvenience the importers of used cars.
Now I think you'll find it is the other way around. It seems that once Auckland City heard about it they immediately leaked "details" to the press about how much it was going to cost 100 mill + was the figure floating around.
By the way, how do you get other people's quotes to be in grey text with that groovy little pinstripe alongside?
Groovy little instructions in grey next to the posting box.
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I am totally in favour of doing something downtown but if its going to be "party central", which is abit like John Key saying "go over there and play while the grown ups talk about making money" then why not just open the gates and put the White Lady down there. In no time at all you will have all the boy racers and other associated dickheads screaming "party on dude" or whatever the kids say these days and swilling their Liron Red and chucking up their alcopops. Then we shut the gates.
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I despair of 90% of so called "Town Planning"
When Princess wharf was redeveloped there should have been provision for a cruise ship terminal built into the design for the Hilton, why this wasn't done was a direct result of the way the project was conceived and realised, as a private public partnership.What is being discussed now is going to go the same way. As Mike Lee just said on BFM, the waterfront in the city isn't like the beach or natural New Zealand, Its where you go to meet people coming off ships or just to see ships. He also said that the next phase of consultation will be talking to the Government and Auckland airport. The reason for talking to the AIA people would be around their expertise and involvement in passenger terminals I guess.
A cruise ship terminal does not need to take up much space, Immigration and Customs formalities can be done on the ship, the first things people getting off ships would need are surely, a transport hub and a welcoming environment. Party central as the first sight for old codgers on a cruise arriving in NZ is not, I expect, all that welcoming.
With the involvement of AIA I can see the next step would be Westfield tuning the whole shebang into a shopping mall with a few bars. Pah!
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Yeah, and giving a damn about how our elected representatives are using public money is so gay
Aparently.
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Give us bread and give us roses.
Wasn't that "Bread and Circuses"?