Posts by Terry Baucher
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Close Up is going to have a story on the disruption. Not that I hold out much hope for some penetrating analysis.
F**k me but that was utter rubbish. All three participants were just mugged by Paul Henry. Throw some light on what happened? Nah too much like hard work. Cheap grandstanding at its worst.
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Great links CousinMosquito and I'm glad that Sean Plunket served it up to McDonald.
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Close Up is going to have a story on the disruption. Not that I hold out much hope for some penetrating analysis.
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Yes, I know it's pointless and predictable, but I can't resist, so here goes.
And that was just page 1! Of 38. :(
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Nick has already described how police and transit DIRECTED people into the centre that is across two lanes of traffic. That is borne out by my discussions with other cyclists who were on the bridge. Why? I don't usually subscribe to conspiracy theories as incompetence explains 99% of most cock ups but I'm very suspicious given that the Auckland marathon runs across the clipons and no-one who crossed the barriers made any attempt to go to the centre lanes until directed.
I mean to ask the Transit Board about this but very helpfully their email addresses are not on the Transit website.
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Let’s hear from those that were. When you pushed past the people with blue uniforms asking you to stop, were you thinking: “A fundamental breach of human rights is occurring such that I have no alternative but to break the law, conscious though I am of the seriousness of such action”
Or was it more like: “Cycling good. Police silly. Woo-hoo!”
To borrow a phrase "Because it's there".
It was an interesting study in crowd dynamics and the "hero" effect on crowds. I was angered by what should have been a pretty simple 50th birthday celebration became incredibly politicised which takes a remarkable degree of incompetence or cynicism. I was also at the same time a bit nervous because it had become so political. In the event it was a question of following the first ones over the barricades and I did it because I could. I usually wear my heartrate monitor when I'm riding and I was interested to note that when I reached the top my heart rate was some 15-20 beats higher than I would normally expect. Judging by the other cyclists there was an enormous amount of adrenaline pumping around.
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I'll just say this: they didn't need to close the centre lanes, and the fact that they did leaves me thinking there was a tactical cynicism to the decision.
Absolutely. Unfortunately, and typically, no journalist appears to be asking that very obvious question. If they can do it for the Auckland marathon why not today.
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Hi Nick, great photos and nice blog. Cheers.
Still don't understand why we couldn't just use the clip ons. The gradient incidentally wasn't as bad as I anticipated (and was a hoot on the descent).
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We rode to Esmonde Road (only a couple of cars got on at Onewa) and we probably could have gone as far as Tristram Avenue. It was as Mark said cool.
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Yes, Mr Slack you are quite the rabble rouser. Personally I blame Keith Locke - as soon as he started talking we all moved over to the barricades.
I cycled across and was astonished to see cyclists in the central section. However one told me that the police directed him there as it was "safer" - so Transit's propaganda backfired on itself. Very nice to ride on the bridge and I have never seen so many grins.