Mixed reactions as Desley Simpson supports Wayne Brown for second term as Auckland Mayor
That’s it.
The Boomer King wins a second term. He has the ZB audience, the ZB audience decides who is mayor when the vote doesn’t get split.
I predict a pitiful turn out and that will matter when he implements the mass surveillance congestion charges that most Aucklanders have no knowledge about.
Wait until the vast number of Aucklanders who don’t vote suddenly start getting stiffed by the new congestion charge.
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Just another turn in the down ward spiral that is NZ now .The voters are so thick they never investigated his claims of fixing Northlands problems .The fancy water system he crows about was not even started when he left and the water has no been found to be undrinkable .Typical colonist provide shit to the natives but charge them the earth for it .Local IWI have now picked up the remains of that project and are sorting the quality issues .
“ Wait until the vast number of Aucklanders who don’t vote suddenly start getting stiffed by the new congestion charge.”
Why? What do you think they’ll do?
Why doesn’t the left have a decent candidate? And the ability to create/educate an audience it can move as far as a polling booth?
What would be ‘a vision’ from the left – probably just more pink gold, cycle lanes paid for by petrol tax and congestion charges.
Joseph Pretty right – turn that around though and right isn’t pretty. Bu congestion charges as part of an easy transport diverse system including local circles for those at ground level, that would work well. But no idea is really worked thoroughly to ensure it fits the new low wage or no wage regime that we have now. Seems the more that admins and sivil servants (ss?) are paid. the less they consider the people they are supposed to serve. Come back NZ some of us loved you, we can make our relationship work, promise!
This displays our own varied feelings about Auck-land.
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Or Orcs born out of some meretricious act of ACTs Rodney Hide and something? Feel very concerned.
Orcs may have experienced some sort of life extension, but their normal life spans were never really described beyond possibly inheriting a type of immortality similar to Elves from which they may have originated.
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Well…a congestion charge is probably inevitable. Presumably for the CBD and surrounds. Why not try to reduce the volume of traffic in certain places at certain times. Its diabolical, up there with Bangkok at times. Yet not popular with folk and especially not with Libertarians. Telling that Sydney has not ventured down this path (yet). As always the devil will be in the detail.
Yet critics may well have a point. The rhetoric is reducing traffic congestion but is it just another way to raise revenue. Or to provide an incentive to use the expensive new inner city rail system? That’s not a bad thing.
Money is tight. People are struggling.
Congestion charging is far from the most cost effective way to improve congestion.
The more people pay to travel the less they’ll have to spend elsewhere.
Therefore, businesses also need to be very concerned about the path we are taking.
Not only will businesses have less customers and higher costs, they’ll also face huge wage demand pressures.
While also finding it harder to attract staff as more employees won’t be able to afford to travel, limiting their labour pool
Thoughts about transport when ideas were prolific. Farmers used to have a free bus that parked in Swanson or Wyndham St and left when full or on the half-hour to take people up quite an incline to the shop.
Farmers free tram – Department stores and shopping malls
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11 Mar 2010 — The Farmers’ Trading Company in Auckland ran a free inner-city tram, and later free buses, to make it easy for customers to get to the store.
Scanned from the 2016 Auckland trolleybus calendar
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1 Nov 2016 — “FARMERS FREE BUS” TROLLEYBUS SERVICE. Auckland’s first venture into railless electric traction began in 1938 when the Farmer’s Trading Co …
Brian Rudman: Free buses just the ticket
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10 Feb 2005 — We already have a free bus service up and running in downtown Auckland called the City Circuit. It costs $600,000 a year to run, and that’s …
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We need to spread that around. perhaps on little posters often renewed.
I live way out in the provinces. Can someone tell me what percentage of Aucklanders actually go Downtown on a regular basis
Thers around 1.5 million in Auckland City, nearly 2 million if you take in the surrounding areas. And often two or more cars per family – more if sharing a house. Off street parking nakes driving a hazard in some areas at night. So in the CBD enough vehicles to make it pretty crowded. Why on earth anyone would want to go into the CBD now with a private vehicle is beyond me. Congestion aside parking is terribly expensive. Folk put up with the congestion and suck up the cost of parking. Some get a parking subsidy from employers.
Auckland has tried a number of strategies: encouraging bicycles and incentivizing public transport. Despite the rhetoric few are interested in commuting to work by biclycles. You have to be fit and put up with inclement weather – and inconsiderate drivers. Public transport is often not that cheaper than using your own car, especially if you get free parking, but the trains can be unreliable at times. Anyway, a lot of folk look down on public transport – not surprising given both its checkered history and current perceptions – and the fact we are addicted to our vehicles.
So, the short of it Sleepy H, the CBD is full of cars.
It is usually best to find the positive in any situation-but really, when 60% of Dorklanders can’t be arsed voting-38% is a high turnout! then it is kiss your arses goodbye time…
Strategic withdrawal of Mrs Goodfellow sealed it. Nothing wrong with Labour candidate, she just does not have the campaign dough or free media cut through like “King” Brown.
“Nothing wrong with Labour candidate”
She also supports congestion charging for a start.
A centrist will struggle to be noticed (even if she had the funding) because she offers little difference
Michael Wood must have run the numbers.
Here’s a radical idea – if local body elections do not achieve 75% turnout, then they are declared legally invalid, and commissioners have to go in. Give local bodies two election cycles from the date of implementation to reach that target and provide them with financial support for local programmes to do so. Then see how the composition of local government changes for the better – we need real local democracy, not the shadow of it.
I’m sure that would have an effect on the complacent who just keep on keeping on. Send in the Crimson Assurance per Monty Python – that wilo wake them up.
Here’s a radical idea.
If local body elections don’t achieve 50% turnout (as most currently don’t) do away with them. Just think of the money it cost to run local councils that could go back into the community
Most towns largely face the same issues that could be dealt with via central government.
And most councilors aren’t worth the money we pay them. Same with their overpriced CEOs.
If the Boomer King wins a second term is that because more voters resonate with him?
Or is it because the left simply failed to resonate and inspire more voters to vote?
The left don’t even have a contender running for Mayor.
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