The Daily Blog Open Mic – Monday 29th April 2019

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Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.

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  1. Today useless ‘simple Simon’ Bridges states on ‘Newshub’ AM show’ that his government will have an ‘environmental policy’!!!!!!!!!!!

    Yeah right; – if so – why did he kill our regional rail under his leadership while in the last Government???????

    Simon Bridges – ‘he is a vacant brain’ waiting for a transplant and should not be trusted at all.

    Mr Bridges; – Bring back the regional rail freight and passenger services you killed again to save our road deaths and then we will listen to you.

    Our morning note to Government to save rail;

    Citizens Environmental Advocacy Centre Incorporated (CEAC) Est’ 2001.
    PO Box 474. Napier. Email; clean.air@xtra.co.nz
    Protecting our environment & health.
    In association with other Community Groups, NHTCF and all Government Agencies since 2001.
    • Health and wellbeing.
    • East Coast Transport Project.
    29th April 2019.

    URGENT NEED TO RESTORE REGIONAL RAIL PASSENGER/FREIGHT SERVICES TO SAVE LIVES.

    To Honourable Minister of Transport Phil Twyford & Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern.

    Countless times in the last eighteen months we have pleaded to you to restore our public regional passenger and freight rail services, to save road deaths using more rail to move freight and passengers.

    Have you ever considered using a ‘mixed rail train’- using both freight and combined passenger services- as used globally and is called “mixed trains”?? see here = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed_train

    Since the last plea (we included again below) we sent to you both on 7th April 2019.

    Yesterday on 28th April 2019; – we now see the gravity of the road deaths again during this April, as yesterday another eight people die in an single two car crash near Taupo, (The press release is below covering that tragedy)

    • Government must work with cabinet to resolve these issues now of overuse of public funding of only roads, roads, and more roads just for freight trucks.
    • restore our public regional passenger and freight rail services, to save road deaths using more rail to move freight and passengers.
    • ‘As the NZ Government offers a subsidy to buy an electric car’ why not also for ‘Electric locomotives’ also?
    • We hope Government will include our input here in your plans for finishing the Zero Carbon Bill and use the EY report here also.
    https://www.kiwirail.co.nz/uploads/Publications/The%20Value%20of%20the%20Rail%20in%20New%20Zealand.pdf

  2. Listen to this good interview and the hard questions Kim Hill put to our new Human Rights Commissioner on last Saturday morning:
    https://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/audio/2018692572/paul-hunt-nz-s-new-human-rights-commissioner

    So any discussions about ‘hate speech’ and what it may mean, or should mean, that can become a very interesting one, raising more questions than giving answers and possible solutions, I suppose.

    Perhaps the law we have suffices, besides of some minor amendments that may need to be made.

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