Posts by Hadyn Green
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Tom: currently Eden Park does special trains to games (or at least did a few years ago). A lot of international stadiums do shuttle buses but that's normally to complement the cars, there never seems to be a multi-transport option, 'cept for the Caketin.
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Yawn...
Anyone tired of this yet?Beautiful stadiums: Beijing's Bird's Nest for the next Olympics and these ones that didn't make it
Innovative design: the Arizona Cardinal's University of Phoenix Stadium (note the glass roof and sliding field)
Waterfront location in a busy city: The New York Sports and Convention Center
Which is the odd one out?
The New York one was never built as it was not wanted by the local popluation (the people who were coughing up a lot of the dough and would have caused transport chaos. Even though it would have its own subway terminal, 75,000 people will snarl up any system.
I suggest a test. Tell 70,000 people to make their way to Auckland's waterfront by a certain time. Once they are all there tell them to go home again. Sit back and watch the fun. Take careful note of all the people not from Auckland or from the Shore for whom Britomart is pretty but useless.
According to Stuff, Minister of Sport, Trevor Mallard, said that Carlaw Park (by a motorway and a rain station) was out of equation as
a private developer already had a contract for the area, three hectares of the domain would need to be used and several hundred trees felled
and that
roading also ran too close to the proposed area for the park leaving inadequate space for people filling a 60,000 seat stadium to spill out on to afterwards
So what does he have in mind for Customhouse Quay with 60,000 people crossing it after a game?
I still think that a stadium out at the base of the Bombays would be awesome and would force some high speed rail lines (ala Tokyo) to be built. But if we HAVE to build on the waterfront could we at least get started?
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Still 62-38 with 41% counted. Jesus. Did the incumbent Republican do something to really piss people off?
That's still well above the Crazification factor
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Damian: Yeah man. For a while it was Tuesday now it seems Wednesday is the day to try out your new show.
Thursday just plain sucks.
Dawn: I wouldn't surprised if the episodes were being rushed out. They should a take a bit of time and make a polished product. Compare Simpsons season 1 with now.
But have you noticed that Bro'Town is (obviously) huge with kids and at the start there is a warning saying that this show is "not intended for younger viewers".
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Would anyone be surprised to hear that the Allianz Satdium doesn't actually fit on Bledisloe Wharf?
And that's without the carpark you're gonna need.
Bledisloe Wharf is dead as an idea. So is Eden Park, let's move on to another site and quickly.
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The Metropolis Building. I love it.
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Bro'Town is done in three studios. Two in good old N of Z and one in India.
I think we should send them to Korea. They seem to have a better quality of underpaid sweatshop animators.
Futurama was one of, if not the greatest animated comedy. The line: "__Hey it's that guy you are__" still cracks me up.
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If global warming ISN'T happening but we take action to try and stop it anyway what will happen?
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My friend just sent me this:
"A proposal three years ago put a $100 million pricetag on building a 25,000 seat stadium there [Carlaw Park]. A 60,000 seat stadium would cost more, but significantly less than the $700,000 touted for the waterfront."
- Straight from Stuff$700,000 for a waterfront stadium? Awesome. I'll take out a loan and build it myself!!!!!
I'll own NZ sports!! Cha-ching! -
Gary: If the Apple stores in London and Tokyo are anything to go by, then no.