Posts by Roger
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I'm still quite skeptical of the whole Transport CCO idea, not because it won't have any advantages... In my opinion, many of the problems that Auckland faces at the moment are the result of a mismatch between our land-use planning and our transport planning - for example why the heck are we planning to put 40,000 people out in Flat Bush when there's no railway line, busway or motorway within cooee?
Joshua - This is not due to a mismatch between land-use planning and transport planning. Both land-use planning and transport planning are an attempt to look into the future and determine policies and plans that will meet our needs and preferences. The problem is our process of transport FUNDING which looks backwards into the past to determin historic transport flows, travel times and safety 'externalities'.
This means that the delivery of transport infrastructure and services is always trying to play catch-up, and to address your specific point... the ONLY way to fund a motorway or rail line to Flat Bush is to build and populate the suburb first.
But my question is - who the heck would do "shared streets" under the new syste,? A council might want to - to improve pedestrian quality - but they won't have the powers to. Auckland Transport probably won't give a damn because all their senior management positions are likely to be filled with road engineers... so we won't see that kind of integrated project happen.
You are probably right... as the roading CCO will control the whole road reserve - property boundary to property boundary (not just the road kerb to road kerb), that puts everything that happens in that corridor under the control of the CCO; pedestrians, cycles, children playing, parades, sidewalk cafes etc, etc.
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Well with loaded questions it does make it easy to dismiss the results! But I think that the question may be... is Auckland beyond rousing?
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Well done, a great piece of work and a credit to all.
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Who the hell do these people think they are?
The face of the future!
Can someone explain how National plan to benefit from this politically?
Um... no
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... it still has the faint air of "oh, look, an open stable door! And just as a matter of interest, anyone seen the horses recently?"
Brilliant
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It is consistent with the new Orwellian approach to the world, where a CCO is any organisation that is 'owned' but not controlled by a council.
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Isabel, I completely agree (as does everyone else in that story) that it was wrong, but how do we properly accomodate the world's shades of grey?
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I'm trying to figure out how anything that happens before someone says "no" is relevant.
But what about after the answer was 'yes'?
The Australians seem to have been having an at times similar debate over the sorry and sordid case of Matthew James Sloan. This case provides some further interesting (perturbing?) questions about 'consent'.
You can find this here - Outrage at judge's sex assault excuses
Or here - When yes means rape
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CPS policy on prosecuting rape
"It is an offence for a man to rape a woman or another man... "
As a code for prosecution it does appear to start off in an old fashioned restrictive manner?
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BTW - does anyone know where the "50 km cycle route" runs? There are little blue signs all over Auckland City telling you it exists, but half of them seem to be missing.
Yes Angus ... well the flipant answer is around the 'Auckland isthmus'. But to be more helpful... and the signs seem better if you go clockwise.
Start (say) at Westhaven, left into Beaumont, then Hamer, Bringham, Halsey and through the Viaduct to Quay St (the REAL route does a bit of a loop somewhere via the Domain but I have never found that) then Tamaki Drive, all the way to the hill at the end of St Helliers - Cliff Rd, Glover Rd and onto Riddle Rd, up Roberta Ave, down past (is it) Tamaki College - Taniwha St and to Riverside Ave/Dunkirk Rd, along the Tamaki estuary waterfront to Kings Rd and Panmure, survive Panmure and the Panmure roundabout to Mt Wellington, turn off the Mt Wellington highway - Lunn Ave and Marua Rd and head for Ladies Mile, around Elerslie racecourse Morrin Rd and Mitchelso that takes you under the motorway and across Great Sth Rd to Atarangi and Mangakiekie Rd, skirt through Cornwall Park and then find your way through the back streets cutting across Mt Eden Rd, Dominion Rd to Sandringham Rd, then onto Mt Albert Rd and Carington Rd, thence Point Chev Rd to Meola Rd and West End Rd, left into Jervois Rd then Masons Ave, Argyle, Sarsfield then Curan St under the Bridge to Westhaven (this deviates a bit for the original 50km route)
Enjoy