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Who needs to fight the "nutbars, creeps and angry social conservatives" when we can watch them fight themselves? If they were indeed Marxists in their youth, nothing's changed much. ;D
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Also, this article is more relevant than ever. De-unionisation and market oversupply make for a volatile cocktail. And what does Prostetnic Vogon Joyce do? He allows bigger and heavier trucks that the roads can't handle.
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Matt P:
Only takes a "good" multiple-fatality crash involving a truck that didn't need to be on the road before the penny-pinching attitude of Joyce on matters rail becomes very, very short-sighted. Especially since road safety is also his bailiwick. I wonder if there'd be grounds to sue for failure to adequately discharge his statutory duty to road safety, along the lines of the lawsuit just brought against NIWA.
SteveH:
Politicians make decisions on health that are much more directly responsible for deaths. If a lawsuit was going to work surely that'd be the place to start?
Some publicity would be a good start. And get Allan Dick to promote it.
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Hasn't been too bad a week down here. A truck and trailer flipping over at 5am in the morning yesterday and blocking - completely - (well done that lad!) the south bound motorway just south of Porirua. And this morning 2 trucks have a wee to do on SH2 and blocking that one. Tired drivers anyone??? Night shift problems anyone?
They might be able to wriggle their way out of RUC's, but they just wait till OSH starts keeping an eye on them.
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Instead we have the incumbent chimp calling the (for once united) supercity candidates loony for supporting rail over his beloved asphalt truck-heaven holiday highways.
Big Trucking should be careful what it wishes for. It might actually get it.
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But if it was a publicity stunt, it was bloody poorly organised.
Agreed. These guys seem increasingly desparate.
Sounds like they've bragged about their Kyoto-sceptic high-carbon-emitting bazooka... only to fire it backwards.
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Perhaps I haven't lived in Welly long enough, but I've spent 6 of the last 10 years here and that's the first I ever heard that phrase.
I'd say that if you have to pay to park in town then as a commuter motorist you're very much the loser, financially anyway.
Seconded. I've been back in Welly for the last 8 years, and taking the bus does seem genuinely classless there.
Although I have noticed in the last couple of years, capacity has not kept up with demand on some routes, especially the Karori-Lyall Bay route. There really need to be double-deckers on that run - if anyone can get round to lowering the bus tunnel floor.
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Does Mr Roughan seriously think crude oil grows on trees, or that dancing cossacks will be leaping out of the trains? And no, biofuels don't count. Today's Julia Hartley-Moores, tomorrow's Toecutters/Colonel Strakers.
It's probably going to take a cacophony of pissed-off tourists during the Rugby World Cup to do something about the public transit or lack of it.
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Islander, I'm more disgusted that Granny is asserting that he's not going to go to prison. What a pathetic country we are, when you can rip off charities and the taxpayer in a manner that could attract a seven-year jail sentence and still not see the inside of a cell. No wonder we have problems with white-collar crime.
As far as the Granny and others are concerned, "crime" is only committed by the lumpenproletariat.
@Jackie C: how long will it be before we get our equivalent of Brown vs Board of Education? I've also detected what appears to be an emerging gulf between higher-decile "voluntary/model minorities" and lower-decile "involuntary minorities".
"Auckland Grammar headmaster John Morris was ordered to stand aside by members of the NZ Army as they escorted several mostly Maori and Pacific Island students to their first day at the prestigious college..."
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Like setting up a 'working group' of carefully selected right-wingers to 'review' the tax system or welfare or retirement funding, for instance.
And not all that long ago, Tricky Dick Prebble put on his tin-foil hat and ranted about an "industrial Gestapo" of "retired trade union officials" and "failed Labour and Alliance candidates".