Posts by Steve Curtis
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Legal Beagle: MPs to vote on raising…, in reply to JC Carter,
business class in Air New zealand is not first class elsewhere
I didnt say that, its that Air NZ business NOW is the equivalent of first class back THEN and the economy + has moved up to be equivalent to business class back THEN. ( has wider seats 20 in, and legroom greater than economy
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Business class on Air NZ is now the equivalent of first class ( lie flat beds etc). It seems that premium economy is now the new business class, wider seats more legroom.
Regarding the preference for booking Air NZ, its usually a corporate deal, ie they save money overall with the discount based on the volume of travel. For ex Mps they would use their allowance to book economy and then try their influence for an upgrade for free. Different airlines " wouldnt know who they are"
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What an absolute liar Joyce is , a complete and utter liar. His project was much more expensive than the original tunnel project approved under labour.
Thats because he made it wider and connected to the City bound lanes.His story about a shorter tunnel is nonsense, it starts after Richardson Rd and ends just by Waterview interchange , as was allways intended.
His cut-cover or trench proposal was rejected by the contractors as too expensive when you were tunneling anyway.Additional costs added by the liar in chief were the widening of lanes through to St Lukes, cutting down trees at Western Springs.
The brazen liars he tells is just stunning.
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Before we have PR about the art and its meaning, let the public have a say about the LOCATION.
Between an alleyway! What were they thinking
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Muse: A C!#& and Balls Story, in reply to Russell Brown,
Well I should have said been a regular in New Lynn for past 25 years and before that the original Lynn Mall. Which has never been owned by Westfield,
AMP had it for a while and they did a major makeover in the late 90s. I think the owners of Sylva Park have it now.
Im not a fan of these 'tower block flats when the Auckland topography suits 3 to 4 residential levels. The HCNZ block in Lynfield is a good example not far away, and close to transport , shopping and schools. This is in line with the unitary plan (until the bureaucrats crank it up to 8 levels plus with discretionary planning.)
The library IS too small , as you would find if you visited regulary and is more crowded than its larger neighbour Avondale and nothing on the outstanding Birkenhead library( who host music ensembles) .
So much for those extra people expected to live close by. The new town hall is outstanding but is stuck on its own.The new west gate development is further example of Architecture by Penny Hulse, old ideas that everyone else has moved on from with little regard to human scale or needs. Dreadful.
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Muse: A C!#& and Balls Story, in reply to Russell Brown,
It does sound Russell that you have hardly ever been in New Lynn and relied on the marketing blurbs personally couriered by Penny Hulse. ( Clean Politics?)
I am regularly in there for the last 25 years and remember the opening of Lynn Mall in its original open air mall version. It was all a human scale then.
In reality the redevelopment is a version of Christchurch s experience without EQC, but with public money being used to maintain commercial land values and a 15 storey block of flats that went out of 'fashion' in London 30 years ago but in its Auckland version is plonked down on multilevel concrete carpark.
At night its lit up by leds for green cred, but which emphasis the battery hen construction by showing as stacked boxes viewable for 10 km.Next to it is a new library which is not much different in size to the old version built by New Lynn Borough Council in the 1960s, which was demolished so that Macdonalds could have a larger store with carpark. Good bye book stacks , hello Big Macs
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Somehow there has been a mix up of privacy of words spoken:
He went on to apply that law to the Andrews’ case and said that, even though the accident occurred in a public place, the couple’s** conversations** were still private:
And privacy of images, which is the substance in this case. As well it was an office not a bedroom.
The issue of privacy arose over the Len Brown affair, that was given short shrift, so I dont see how two anonymous people can have any expectation of privacy at their place of work -
Tony makes some very good points about the high priests who serve the great god called Traffic.
But of course they are completely fallible with their computer aided prognostications as we saw with the joining of the South Western motorway with the Southern at Wiri. The computer models said it would be fine but from the day it opened there were massive traffic jams. The benefits of the new motorway lanes were unrealised as the so called saving in travel time evaporated. I can see this happening with the interchange at Pt Chev . Under the original plan approved under Labour there would have been no connection with the city bound lanes ( and the widening through Western Springs). Yet again there will be an unrealised dream of reduced travel time for those heading to the city.
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Hard News: We can make things better here, in reply to Rik,
Nationals ongoing commitment and funding for national cycleways. Nice one, National!
Hardly. These sort of things come out of the mitigation funding that the motorways projects have to provide for the disruption to the communities they are built in. -
Hard News: Works in progress, in reply to Roger Lacey,
The idea that it’s the poor motorists who pay for everything is a face-slappable myth.
Just a quick look at the funding will tell you that NZTA gives $250 mill to councils for maintenance of locals roads ( separate to State highways which they fund entirely), then there is $325 million for new or upgraded local roads, then there is the $260 million for public transport..
I dont have a problem with hows it paid for, that there is no direct charge to users for a mode of transport, (unlike the others), its the what I would call the Downton Abbey attitude: " UPHILL?, why does it have to be so hard for something we are entitled to"As for the selling of assets to pay for holiday highways ( or was that new hospitals...or new schools...or new ..), Bill English will be happy someone was sucked in by his spin .