Posts by Stephen Judd
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I think there is a big difference between a university researcher asking these questions, and a national broadcaster doing it essentially for entertainment, without seemingly any safeguards.
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Speaker: The real problem with the ‘Kiwimeter’, in reply to Tze Ming Mok,
I think they used the Waitangi Day promo effort to get their initial sample. So when you see the "You are a Globalist, 7% are like you" that's based on that early bunch of respondents. Heaven knows how they weighted it to derive the proportions!
They emailed all the people who had done the Vote Compass last year:
Kia ora!
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Speaker: The real problem with the ‘Kiwimeter’, in reply to Tze Ming Mok,
The survey I did (promoted on Waitangi Day!) was run by http://www.voxpoplabs.com/ who seem to specialise in these exercises. It was about 15 minutes to do, very long, and the questions were much as the present Kiwimeter has, including the "special treament" questions.
I complained in the feedback form at the end of the survey, and received an answer or two, which I wrote about here. There was no acknowledgement that they might have screwed up. They think their questions are neutral.
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PS: the NSW law changes are awful and the state roads minister is a dickhead.
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Hard News: Paths where we actually ride, in reply to Moz,
It's unreasonable in general to say "if you want to do this lawful thing you have to obey some extra rules I just made up", but more so in this case.
Maybe that was a bit harsh. What I'm trying to get across is that if we can't get THEM, the authorities, to give us segregated facillities, pedestrians and bike riders need a bit of give and take to rub along, and we shouldn't behave as though the shared facility belongs wholly to us. I mean, that's what nasty motorists do, acting as though the road is theirs alone, and it's a shame if cyclists emulate them amongst the pedestrians on a shared path. I hope that pedestrians try to be a bit more alert and aware, and I hope that cyclists don't ride at speeds where they can't take evasive action. If you want to go that fast, maybe pick somewhere where you aren't endangering your fellow citizens who are on foot. That needn't be a matter of what's lawful (hence why I said cultural change) but of courtesy and consideration for other members of your community.
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Hard News: Paths where we actually ride, in reply to Stephen Judd,
Oh, and I think the overall impact of the NSW changes is going to be bad for cycling numbers, without achieving much. Feels much more like a poke in the eye for greenies than a solution to a serious social problem.
On the whole I think both pedestrians and cyclists should resist shared paths and go for dedicated paths for each mode. Shared paths are basically a sop from people who still think cars are more important.
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Hard News: Paths where we actually ride, in reply to Howard Edwards,
I'm a very keen commuting/utility cyclist, and I think we definitely need some cultural change about the use of bells on shared paths and speed on shared paths. I think you have to accept that if you're on a bike, on a shared path, pedestrians are going to do unpredictable things, dogs are going to zip out, toddlers will break away, etc, and you need to lower speed accordingly. If you don't like it, don't use a shared path.
I was in Vancouver last year and the paths around Stanley Island and the waterfront are clearly demarcated pedestrian vs cyclist. In fact the Stanley ones go further and are split level, with a clear gutter and height difference. Some of our shared paths by contrast have design that really encourages or at least doesn't discourage bad behaviour.
I'm not sure how I feel about law enforcement that is more specific than "careless use".
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We need to talk about Cbristchurch.
If you’d asked me a fortnight ago what the mood of Christchurch folk was, asked for a precis of our psychological landscape I would have said that we were doing okay. That we were finally moving on from our quake traumas, at least those of us not in the seemingly unending embrace of an unresolved claim (EQC will tell you that most are now resolved and it’s only the most complicated claims that remain open but everyone knows someone who is in this situation). These people excepted though, my sense was that we were doing pretty well.
And I would have been dead wrong.
Read the rest, Moata lays it out so well.
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Hard News: Fix up, young men, in reply to Bart Janssen,
If my experience was real
Real, but, and I mean this lovingly, much less relevant than any woman's who feels like sharing theirs. There is a massive asymmetry in this discussion that is not corrected by an ostensible equal treatment.
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