The Daily Blog Open Mic – Saturday 13th October 2018

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  1. Simon Bridges is the one who is pushing rail out of service everywhere, and expanding 63 tonne road freight heavy truck use now.

    So every day we here of another car driver killed under a truck Simon Bridges is killing us all as you me or a family member will be next.

    https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/107786920/Crashes-claim-three-lives-in-deadly-five-hours-on-North-Island-roads

    “Police are at the scene on on State Highway 1 near Mahurangi West Rd, near Puhoi, north of Auckland where a truck and two other vehicles crashed about 10am on Friday.

    Police said one person died at the scene, while three others were injured, two seriously. SH1 is closed at the scene and diversions are being put in place at Warkworth and Silverdale.”

    That is why we need to take half the trucks off the roads and use rail again as we did for generations before us.

  2. Secrets and Lies

    (Remind us why Phil Goff’s personal 1 million dollar feasibility study into the white elephant stadium was so secret is had to be redacted even from his own councillors?)

    Grenfell refurb details ‘kept secret to protect commercial interests’

    “In September 2014, almost three years before the disaster that claimed 72 lives, Ed Daffarn made a request under the Freedom of Information Act to see the Kensington and Chelsea Tenant Management Organisation monthly minutes about the refurbishment project, including input from Rydon and the architecture firm Studio E. The request was refused because release might “prejudice the commercial interests of the contractor”.

    On Wednesday Daffarn told the inquiry into the disaster that the minutes could have revealed that two months earlier zinc cladding had been swapped for combustible plastic-filled cladding, which leaked emails have shown saved the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea almost £300,000.

    “If we had seen that they had replaced non-combustible materials with combustible materials we could have publicised it and campaigned against it,” he said. “I didn’t have the information I needed to know just how unsafe our homes really were. The thought that if I had been given this information I could have done something about it continues to cause me anguish.”

    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/oct/10/grenfell-survivor-says-firefighters-had-to-abandon-rescue-of-disabled-father

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