Posts by BenWilson
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No, Elmo is the true evil. That little fucker needs to go down.
You're just bitter 'cause Elmo gets the chicks.
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Talking about connecting A, B and C whilst servicing the need of the CBD and sneering in passing at the misfortunes of ACT... what is this, Sesame Street?
I see where you're going but I already have dibs on The Grouch. Choose quickly, no one wants to get stuck with Big Bird.
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<invokes immunity to community outrage spell>
I actually don't see the problem with urban sprawl. If good transport makes it possible and people like their semi-rural suburbs, that's all good by me. Yeah ok, carbon footprint. But don't forget, I'm one of those home workers, when you get high and mighty about the virtue of commuting by train to work.</invoke> -
Yes, 23 out of 24 people hate ACT and want them gone. It's the one other person who keeps them in, though. That's why I'd be surprised if this means political oblivion. Muldoon was a shocking bully too. Some people see that as "a firm hand".
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I don't actually disagree with Angus about the value of putting more lines to more places. That is also a good idea. But I think more city destinations is also a good idea, especially as it provides a benefit to everyone who is already on a line. It's got a really high return. Also tunnels don't require knocking over existing dwellings so you don't have to shaft thousands of property owners. But that will eventually have to happen as the lines expand.
Yes, better rail will mean the transport corridors will be more desirable to live along. The problem with this is?
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From that Stuff link:
"I guess we haven't necessarily shown we've been capable of that. I'm not blaming anyone for that. When these things happen, it's no one individuals fault. Collectively, we've got to take responsibility."
Did Roger Douglas really say that? Someone got to mash up a soundbite of Collectively, we've got to take responsibility., interspersed with some of the meatier ones about individual responsibility.
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Second half of above comment still applies though - how can you reduce car travel by increasing the intensity of an urban centre whose predominant modes of access are motorways?
By making the alternatives to cars more viable. I'm not really following your point at all. Yes, more alternatives will make the city more attractive. That will be because it is, in fact, more attractive. This is not a bad thing because it will encourage more cars (although it will probably do that). If the alternatives are what is making it more attractive, that means the people it is attracting are using the alternatives.
I guess I just can't understand the idea that it's a bad thing to make the city a better place because then people might want to go there. Something's broken in that idea. It's just as broken as the corollary that you should make the city a shitty place for cars with tolls to encourage people onto public transport. That just makes the city a shittier place. Both ideas are not about growing the city, they're about constraining it.
which have become a lot more crowded recently with the building of high rise apartment blocks where each of the residents have there own car (they need their own car because this is Auckland where large swathes of the city are almost bereft of PT).
Cars in apartments are not such a problem. They have, after all, got their own parking, and they're not using the cars during commuting times because they can walk to work (or if they don't work in the city, they're driving the other way to all the traffic). Apartment dwellers generally own cars so they can use them to get around the rest of the city, not the CBD, and to do heavy shopping.
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Interestingly the Associate Minister appears to be responsible for training in the Defence Forces. Considering that's 90% of what they do in NZ, that's a pretty big role.
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It's all about the coffee breaks. Life isn't much fun having coffee at home and gossiping to the walls about what happened on Nurse Jackie last night. That behaviour earns a trip to the reeducation farm.
The internet was invented so home workers like me can gossip. Problem solved.
Seriously though, working from home is not for everyone. It's scarily isolating at times. I wouldn't mind having an office with other human beings in it to go to sometimes. Then I could come home and get some work done after all the socializing and suit-wearing and commuting was done with.
Working closer to home is good too, especially if you live on the Shore, come to think of it, is there any other reason to live on the Shore?.
Living on the isthmus and working on the Shore is quite nice though - you get half the bridge practically to yourself.
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Man I'm only halfway through that 82 pages and already bored to tears with the intricacies of exactly how it is that Roy and Hide wrangled over some document. This is what it was all about? FFS. Sounds like the kind of BS you get in office politics over paper clips.
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