Posts by Sacha
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Never happen - tank farm more likely.
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And in case anyone is wondering, we all went over here to keep talking about Waterview. As you were.
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Heh. No, but Lynn at te Standard said something recently about vanquishing some "commentators" from the "NZ blogosphere". I'm still not sure if that means their colleagues or guests, or whether weapons were involved. I note their Tane is bowing out today but I'm sure that's unrelated.
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Imagine, Kim, the backyard party where we last met would have resonated with the drone of the nearby motorway.
Best wishes to you and your neighbours figuring out how to have your say about this. Given the amount of well-resourced spin you'll face, it's important not to come across in ways that are easily dismissed as the bleating of nimbys. Hope your school has some amenable PR experts amongst its parents.
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Idiot/Savant about the financing smoke and mirrors.
...there's only so much money in the NTLF, and its all already committed to other projects. Funding Waterview this way means that some of those other projects will have to be bumped, meaning that either those roads won't be built, or to the extent that they are actually important and necessary, the government will have to borrow to fund them instead.
Either way, that means more costs, either from increased travel time and inconvenience elsewhere in the country, or from increased finance costs for those projects. But because they're not part of this particular project, the government can ignore them.
And so it gets to pretend that it has produced a real saving, when all it has done is shuffle the costs around and pushed a bunch "off-balance sheet". Enron tricks again...
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I'm thinking more all the parkland alongside Hendon Ave, where if memory serves me right there are a lot of low-income families whose children presumably rely on cheap recreational opportunities - like parks.
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Wonder what social impact comes from removing so many parks?
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Making a long-term Auckland-wide issue look like a political grab for a single by-election doesn't play well
If you're looking to contrast decisive and inclusive leadership styles, it's a pretty handy issue though.
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And Josh answers my question. Good on you, and thanks for the map too.
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Hi Kim - long time, no see.
To me, that Rosebank route made much more sense in linking the prime industrial area that Auckland City Council are planning to intensify over the next decade or two. Less impact on residential amenity and environment from what I recall, which I think were all factors in its support by ARC as preferred route. Unsure why it was dismissed.
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