The Daily Blog Open Mic – 2nd June 2024
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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New cycle paths and walkways or fix potholes and finish recovery work?
Where is Local Government Minister and Minister of Transport (Simeon) on this?
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/ldr/517144/fix-our-potholes-gisborne-locals-decry-spending-on-new-projects
This would make a simple cartoon by one of our masters/mistresses of the art.
The minister stuck in the mud of a very large pothole, and the police searching for him as a lost person. And then perhaps they also would find our lost, last real government who have turned into a Lost Tribe of Noble Savages (get it?) and we might have a chance of getting potholes and a number of other things renovated, and the present gummint can space out to a supernova.
I think that the ‘trans’ phase has affected our government. At one time it was women who wanted to decorate and design their surroundings with new furniture, colour, gardens, seats, pathways and walks laid out in an attractive space for gathering. Now men have adopted this approach; everything is being redesigned and redecorated for the benefit of wealthy who have time and opportunity to hang out. These may be people from overseas welcomed by our friendly hosts of NZ/AO who want their money, and don’t care to mix with the majority of citizens, as too poor and undeserving to have their needs seen to.
The largely carless (no private ownership) notion that councils nationwide seem to be slowly adopting seems to have come from the WEF
https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_The_Urban_Mobility_Scorecard_Tool_2023.pdf
Here is another
Cars versus bikes battle continues to rage in Palmerston North
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/515725/work-on-almost-completed-cycleway-paused-as-arguments-rage