Hard News: Christchurch: Is "quite good" good enough?
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Steve Barnes, in reply to
In the streets around my neighborhood of St Albans there is a huge increase of houses for sale. Seems as soon as a house is repaired it goes up for sale and the people take off like scared birds.
Now that is another worry. Once the market reaches a certain point, property prices are likely plummet and once people realise what is happening they are stuck with a house worth nothing on the market. I doubt there is anything in the Government's "plan" to ameliorate that scenereo.
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Gudrun Gisela, in reply to
Unfortunately Gerry Brownlee keeps telling us the market will take care of itself. It wont.
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Sofie Bribiesca, in reply to
Cr Tim Carter asks for answers from EQC about their priorites.
And Campbell Live last night followed up on the protest outside EQC and then onto IAG. Thought it might have been Ian Dalziel in the crowd, only because of the cheese cutter/cloth cap upon the head of the man behind Ian Simpson, although it was no plaid.
Was good to see a young lady who had never protested before say she quite liked being heard. Has got a taste for it. She'll learn it takes persistence. -
Lilith __, in reply to
Thought it might have been Ian Dalziel in the crowd, only because of the cheese cutter/cloth cap
By their caps ye shall know them. ;-)
Or should that be BY THEIR CAPS?
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
in the crowd
sorry, that cap don't fit, this time
(that may've been Garry Moore)
I was far from that maddened crowd
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Hebe, in reply to
the cheese cutter/cloth cap
It’s Garry Moore.
Poor people; so desperate they are willing to go out in the rain and cold because they have no other way to be heard. Simpson et al adopt civil servant posture number 63(b): I am listening, I feel your pain, I understand, and I am not going to do anything about this. Coached by Teflon PR, mission statement:” Like water off a duck’s back”.
I don’t know how these people sleep at night.
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Gudrun Gisela, in reply to
I don’t know how these people sleep at night.
Millions in the bank and a holiday just around the corner. A few minutes in the rain no trouble. Why he still holds the position he does when failing so badly is beyond explanation i swear. -
Steve Barnes, in reply to
Why he still holds the position he does when failing so badly is beyond explanation i swear.
It's called the Peter Principal
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Thank you so much for this Steve. I am no longer surprised in the mess we find ourselves in.
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The plan, such as it is, makes it into the Chinese media. Fortunately it leaves English names in English - Chinese transliterations can be quite hard to decipher, so this makes googling companies like Populous (these people? wah, big stadiums!), Woods Bagot (here?), Boffa Miskell (oh, a New Zealand firm?) and Fourfoursixsix (if that's their website, can we expect the Christcurch CBD to be eyewateringly faded into a misty background?), that I've never heard of (maybe Christchurchian people are more familiar with these names), much easier.
But it says Gerry says the plan has the government's strong support and has won the attention of the whole world, and is very helpful for Christchurch.
And it mentions sport facilities, but it doesn't say stadium.
It does say that an earthquake memorial and all that other stuff will be built with the support of public funds. Doesn't say how those public funds will be raised.
No mention of the people of Christchurch. Then again, it has disturbed me for... how many years have we put up with this government now?... just how much the National Party has in common with the CCP, especially in its attitude to its subjects.
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Joe Wylie, in reply to
just how much the National Party has in common with the CCP, especially in its attitude to its subjects.
How about the justice precinct, touted as "stimulating recovery by supporting retail and commercial activity in the central area." Kind of a combination of vacation lands for lawyers in love, with Mega City One style cubes to complement the cursed earth of the "frame".
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Rich of Observationz, in reply to
The idea of a "Justice Precinct" indeed sounds very Judge Dredd.
Indeed:
"Since the abolition of democratic government in Canterbury in 2011, Mega-City 03 has been a dictatorship run by CERA. ... Its ruler is Chief Judge Gerry Brownlee. He is accountable to nobody. The citizens are permitted to have an elected city council and mayor, but with no significant power: the idea is that a facade of democracy will placate most people"
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Chris Waugh, in reply to
hmmm.... it'll make it much quicker and more efficient for the police and courts to process shoplifters.
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Hebe, in reply to
the justice precinct,
.... will secure the Ballantyne's customer base for the next century.
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Chris Waugh, in reply to
Ballantyne's is moving into the private prison business?
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Hebe, in reply to
Ballantyne's is moving into the private prison business?
Well, there could be plans for the dungeon downstairs to maximise returns, but what I meant is that the justice precinct is ideally placed for a quick trot through the bus exchange to Bally's back door on Lichfield st for a short black, measure up a pinstripe suit with a Rogeresque-flowery shirt and a bash at the Clarins counter, before dashing back for the afternoon sitting.
I was rather hoping that the basement cafe would stay like it has been for a thousand years (I'm sure some of the customers have never been outside), but I bet it changes now. It's been there all my life: trips to Town in the school holidays and lunch downstairs. At uni, my friend and I would get ratted at the Bush on Friday lunchtimes then roll into town for afternoon tea. Going there with hippies. Going there with punks. Going before the 2 to 10 subbing shift. Taking my twins for cheese rolls and cream horns when they were younger. I like it.
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Islander, in reply to
I was rather hoping that the basement cafe would stay like it has been for a thousand years
Me too.
As a young kid a millenium ago, there were those three treats - afternoon tea at Ballantyne's or Hay's, or fishnchips at Fail's- -
Hebe, in reply to
Hay's: had the most amazing 1960s cafe upstairs that survived until sometime in the early 90s. It was areal piece; I must find out about it.
Islander, Do you remember that cafe in High Street near the Cashel corner? It had orange vinyl and an order system on a wire thing like a flying fox across the roof. I would love to live somewhere with some character left; there's fuck all in this place. I'd much rather have layers of memories in my town than the unquiet ghosts around now.
The town needs a blessing, a release, a lifting of the shroud. Lots of singing, weeping and karakia; a tangi and a celebration?
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Hebe, in reply to
or fishnchips at Fail’s
That was for grown-ups in our house. Never found out why.
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Sacha, in reply to
Lots of singing, weeping and karakia
Rugby match then #allyouget
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Hebe, in reply to
<q>Lots of singing, weeping and karakia
Rugby match then </q(Derisive snort) The nearest a real Kiwi bloke and blokess gets to emotion eh? -
Sacha, in reply to
southern 'man'
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Hebe, in reply to
Even the girls are men down here.
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Sacha, in reply to
someone has to wear the trousers when you put little boys in charge
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Islander, in reply to
little boys in charge
-sausages have no brains...
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