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Great news for Wellingtonians with the WCC deferring demolishing the iconic city to sea bridge. WCC making sane decisions is pretty unique too, as is their being practical, and recognising lovely craftsmanship.
Thanks GA for bringing us some positive political news. Good for Wellington – lead the way for us to get practical and visionarym and affordable policy could happen too.
Greywarbler. Frankly, I’m flummoxed. If some WCC councillors had their way, our few heritage buildings and interesting old architecture would be demolished and replaced by shoe box apartments. I do wish that more would follow Tory W to Sydney, or anywhere really, and stay there. Forever.
The CBD is pretty munted, partly due to earthquake requirements, partly post covid impact, but the WCC don’t see the big picture and it’s a crying shame that ideological fripperies have replaced the basic tasks that they’re elected to do. If they halt the misbegotten Golden Project it will help, but only insofar as implementing it will strangle hard working business owners, already struggling, and the noise and upheaval tough on the workers who have to live with it.
The cycle lanes are nuts, largely unused, and in some places potentially dangerous. I say this as a long ago foundation member of the Christchurch Cycling Safety Committee. We ran courses in primary schools, and the MOT came and “inspected” the children, and issued them with certificates. That’s back when bikes were bikes, and were a standard means of transport, not a political statement or some sort of PC virtue signalling.
Hearing that vandalism of the iconic bridge has been halted, I wondered if it was a decision made when they were all plastered. Am I allowed to say that ?
I don/t know what our superior educational establishments have managed to impress and initiate., not feelings of awe at past history and society – not much.
The PTB want to tear down all the hard effort and replace it with matchboxes, inferior terraced tenements. The Industrial Age, no the Handcuffed Age now, and schools couldn’t teach either minds for curiosity, only for achievement to set goals, and university is for specialisation, a lot about a specified amount. Knowledge rich pffft.
GW. Unfortunately our superior educational establishments no longer exist. Those diligent Scots who privately endowed our first university in Dunedin could never have envisaged the government- taxpayer- funded dumbed down circus which it now is. This is a universal: so many once world class academies of learning and scholarship now churn out mind and societally destructive parrots.