It never made any sense why Phil Goff dumped Mike Lee from providing oversight to Auckland Transport never made any sense.
Mike is one of the few who knows the tricks AT play and he has been endlessly critical of this behemoth, removing him allowed AT to do what they like!
Efeso’s pledge to bring oversight back to AT alongside free public transport is the exact type of policy that should excite apathetic Aucklanders to vote.
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Yes! Any move that gets people onto public transport is positive for the environment and reducing congestion. Residents in a big city can not expect to go everywhere by car, our cture must change.
Finally!
Mr Collins, and his team are getting nervous due to the polls — and now are offering the goodies…I gut tells me Labour might be cleaned out in the local — backlash against the Government
Yep Nathan.
New Zealanders absolutely hated surviving during the pandemic, when USA under Trump, were piling hundreds of thousands of Covid corpses into refrigerated containers.
Remember, National and ACT wanted to open up the borders, have Air BnB isolation?
Destiny has a majority of brown-skinned parishioners who are still alive too because of Covid isolation and elimination strategies until NZ/AO could vaccinate.
National and ACT who wanted to jeopardize the lives of Kiwis, or Labour who made the hard decisions to save white and brown lives9 and all the shades of colour in between ?
You’ve got your head stuck where you can’t see or hear much sense Natana!
TOBT
Your facts are not facts they’re rubbish.
@BTF? Which facts?
Hundreds in refrigerated containers? Hundreds of thousands dead from Covid. My apologies, English is not my first language.
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/refrigerated-trucks-arrive-in-l-a-as-bodies-pile-up-at-hospital-morgues-amid-rising-covid-19-death-toll/
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/05/07/us/new-york-coronavirus-victims-refrigerated-trucks/index.html
https://www.wsj.com/articles/nyc-dead-stay-in-freezer-trucks-set-up-during-spring-covid-19-surge-11606050000
And what’s your excuse for you not providing facts as counterproof Bob?
Bob has admitted he doesn’t do facts only opinions. He is also a liar( Mike Hosking) and self proclaimed academic from Dulwich school …
https://amp.theguardian.com/education/2021/mar/26/dulwich-college-head-warns-pupils-over-culture-protest)
but NZ born and bred.
Your facts then Bob? Bereft of ideas or evidence again Bob.
Nope, usual stupid comments without any proof whatsoever.
Bob…The other Mr Tamaki is correct and you should know this …There are probably many thousands of people who are alive and kicking simply because we had a Labour government in power when the Chinese flu arrived here…I have family in a Republican state in the land of the free and we have no idea in New Zealand what the virus was capable of in the early stages…Your beloved National ACT party would of been the last thing we needed at the time…Money before people is not the kiwi way old chap especially during a pandemic….It’s bad enough when times are normal having National in power , but after getting us through the worst of the pandemic it seems this lot we have governing now are just incapable of doing even just the basic’s….Maybe the days of Labour and National being the main two parties are over and we need new fresh ideas…please not the Greens…
You are right Brian. As an elderly Kiwi, I watched those images of poor Covid souls being loaded into containers and sobbed. My late husband’s father fought against right-wing Nationalists in the second war.
Another right-winger Republican Donald Trump, told people to drink bleach or shine a strong light up your anus to cure Covid, but he was one of the first to take the vaccine when it came available – hypocrite idiot.
Most of my friends will be voting Labour, in the local elections and in the general election in 2023 because Labour cared enough about the majority of people to make the hard decisions regarding lockdowns and mandates. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.
Sorry CG but under a Labour Government the wealthy are more wealthy the poor more poor?
Needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few?
With respect I think you under the spell of Jacinda Ardern.
Wealthy are always wealthy under any government. You are brainwashed by rightwing ideology and hatred of Ardern. The previous 3 comments are 100 % correct but your total blindness of anything right means your biased comments are irrelevant.
Everyone ‘protected’ to the limited attempt that they were by the initial limited lockdowns are now dying en masse because Ardern completely dumped the restrictions of plague bearing filth from the likes of America coming in. Delaying mass deaths is not an achievement.
I think you’ll find the likes of Chris Bishop, Chris Luxon, David Seymour and Brian Tamaki baying and frothing to have the borders open and mandates done away with!
Noone can win with you whingeing right-wing hypocrites:
“Bishop said he accepted that opening the borders meant there would be a “low level” of spread in the community, but it was already in the community with 45 community cases reported today.” Chris Bishop: https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/checkpoint/audio/2018814341/chris-bishop-outlines-national-s-reopening-plan
“Christopher Luxon says the Government should fully reopen the border as soon as possible to help New Zealand’s tourism industry. ” Chris Luxon: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/05/christopher-luxon-calls-for-full-border-reopening-scraping-of-pre-departure-tests-ahead-of-expected-government-announcement.html
“ACT Party leader David Seymour is calling for the Government to scrap its Covid-19 mandates in favour of learning to live with the virus.” David Seymour: https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/02/26/david-seymour-calls-for-covid-19-mandates-to-be-scrapped/
Destiny Church leader Brian Tamaki speaks at an anti-lockdown protest in Auckland
“Nowhere is this more obvious than in their responses to COVID-19. As nation-states have rolled out public health measures, Pentecostals have seemed unwilling and unable to accept epidemiological explanations and strategies.” Brian Tamaki: https://www.waikato.ac.nz/news-opinion/media/2021/spirit-of-resistance-why-destiny-church-and-other-new-zealand-pentecostalists-oppose-lockdowns-and-vaccination
The government was vaccinating citizens against Covid, but it can’t vaccinate against stupid people like you Mohammed Khan and all your other callous right-wing knobheads!
You and all the other right-wing hypocrites who are paid to rail and froth against Labour when they lock the country down to protect the vulnerable. And when they do open up the country because we reached over 90% vaccination, you piss, whinge and moan.
You’re a cabal of hypocrites.
Hey Mo…I’m not sure where you are from or of your background but the “ plague bearing filth “you talk of are the ones who put a stop to us kiwis either having to speak German or Japanese .It was seriously touch and go for awhile there and the yanks saved our bacon during WW2…Just as then we are still a defensive challenged country and the lifestyle we live is at the pleasure of the US or the UK. Our natural resources would be a nice wee addition to many a Putin type of thug , I mean president , or chairman…the Yanks aren’t perfect far from it , and we must accept this , but Mo , at the moment they are keeping the wolves away from the door .
We will see if others agree with you in the local elections — best of luck, you will need it
If Labour people get out and vote, Collin wins, it’s as simple as that. Although not perfect, I will vote for him as the lesser evil. The other guy is a fucking corporate shill..and will run through the wheatfield into the arms of the current AT admin.
Is there detail that commits to dealing with AT’s excesses?
With Simon Wilson’s stamp of approval on Collins it strongly suggests it will BAU at AT under Collins as mayor.
Dear Martyn…
You still seem to think that Auckland [economy] matters in the scheme of things. I’m sorry to say that it doesn’t.
Auckland’s a lovely town but it shouldn’t be there. The reason I write that will be debated but the reality is that Auckland is a spender of money, not the earner of money and lets face it, it’s all about the money. ( As much as that disgusts me.) Who ever manages to become Mayor of Auckland will soon realise they’re the Mayor of a dead town walking, which is an unpleasant thing to write, and I don’t like writing it but that doesn’t change the reality of the unfortunate situation.
The world’s on fire and millions of people are about to begin to starve to death and/or fight over dwindling resources and those resources aren’t a casino, an emptying main street, and a dead man walking retail industry.
Drive to anywhere in AO/NZ and bury a spud. Go back in 90 days, give or take, and you’ll find many spuds. That, is true wealth. Sorry Auckland.
All those lovely road sides and golf courses? Grow spuds there. ( Spud. A metaphor for foods generally. )
Wikipedia:
Great Famine (Ireland)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)
Growing food? Nothing to it really. Anyone can do it.
After 140 years of greedy feasting on our farmers and nearly forty years of roger douglas’s treachery has laid waste to our agrarian hinterlands and fed billions of sequestered dollars into Auckland’s rapaciously greedy leafy suburbs. Yoo Hoo? Boys? You’re fucked.
But don’t forget Countryboy , the reason we enjoy our lifestyle down here in the south is because so many people live up north and especially Auckland…..Stay up there you guys…what’s a little traffic jam between friends..it can’t be that bad , just a few minutes extra on your commute to work or wherever you are going..AT are doing their best for you and I’m sure the next Mayor of Auckland will carry on from the good job Goff has been doing…
I suggested the other day that someone should make a game up about Auckland’s traffic snarls which I felt would be a drawcard for Aucklanders, and profitable. I find that there is an internet game called Rush Hour traffic. Damn someone else has always thought of good ideas first.
Rush Hour® – ThinkFun
https://www.thinkfun.com › products › rush-hour
rush hour traffic jam game from http://www.thinkfun.com
Make learning fun with Rush Hour, a sliding block logic game with 40 challenges … to get the red car out of this traffic jam – it will take brainpower.
Restoring Oversight of AT by council is one of Wayne Brown’s core policies. It looks light an increasing desperate Collins has pinched it.
Once again Craig Lord’s consistent position on remedying AT is deliberately omitted. Bias.
Yes Anna…Craig Lord must be on the list of the unmentionable…as is New Zealand First, it’s called “ others” …and don’t mention anything against climate change …instantly deleted …..independent opinion in a mainstream media environment indeed….
I think this comment by an Asian immigrant to NZ sums it up pretty well, having used PT in London and Taipei while never owning a car:
I am well placed to compare the utility of public transport to motor vehicles. I learned to drive relatively late in life. I lived in New Zealand for a couple of years without a car and so became an expert in bus routes. To put it bluntly, my world was small, inconvenient, often wet and windy. My commuting world was full of noisy students and adults who were coughing in winter. I was plagued colds in winter.
I would never go back.
So if Auckland transport is such a shit hole can you sum up why Taipei was worth leaving and why did you never own a car?
Perhaps students think the same of those arrogant immigrants from Taipei.