My legs hurt. Amazing scenery though.
My legs hurt. Amazing scenery though.
Someone’s loaned me a mountain bike, I’ve been out after work a few times this week. I’m saving up to buy my own one soon.
https://www.relive.cc/view/vrqowLwAjKq
Also, I’ll be helping with the south coast cleanup tomorrow, cleaning up Taputearanga island with the Wellington sea kayak network.
There’s a parking machine on Dixon Street where someone has busted the solar panel, I wonder if it was the same person?
Neat. The area around Auckland Airport is perfectly suited for a hovercraft, come to think of it.
Auckland Airport has a hovercraft?
Chloe being ahead of both Peter’s and Seymour as preferred PM must surely rankle.
One of the things I really dislike about NZ politics is the amount of hyperbole and over the top language used, from both sides of the aisle, and I very quickly lose interest in what someone has to say if they talk like that.
If what you’re saying is true, the truth of the matter is bad enough without them needing to exaggerate.
Surely you can appreciate calling this a “war on nature” is a bit ridiculous.
Nobody is setting out to destroy nature, it’s just less of a priority for them.
I have a lot of respect for Forest and Bird, but using highly emotional language like “destroy a pristine mountaintop and rip up the seafloor” and describing this as a “war on nature” make it much more difficult to take them seriously.
There’s something else to consider, and that is all the people you lure off the road and onto public transport are not only now costing you money, but you also lose the revenue from them driving their vehicle, not only the RUCs or fuel excise, but the GST on all the running costs.
I suspect labour costs are the single biggest driver, you’re not being paid to drive your car after all.
And despite that, a public transport journey is heavily subsidised, and the leaf driver is actually paying their own way via RUCs.
I don’t understand how public transport is so expensive.
Given what a mess Wellington traffic is, especially getting in and out of the city, I don’t think many people are driving at the moment when public transport is an option.
I honestly think most of the people who could use PT are already on it, at least in and out of the city.
The whole point of my reply was pointing out why public transport isn’t an option for me, and why, no matter how good it gets, we will need to upgrade our road infrastructure eventually.
Absolutely nobody has said it won’t help.
That’s not what I asked you.
I’m pointing out why I won’t be taking the bus if I’m heading out that way.
Can I use it for when I take my kayak out there? 5.5m long boat shouldn’t take up too much space in the bus, right?
There’s quite a few who were clearly playing along.
I like April fools, it’s good to remind numpties that they are, in fact, numpties.
I do think the article should have been shorter though, I was just skimming through at the end. Concise writing is a lost art.
Labour’s transport spokesperson wasn’t able to be reached, and it remains unclear if there even is one.
That was a great throwaway line.
All it takes is one decent leak for the condition of the place to change drastically though.
https://www.relive.cc/view/vevWmKKJpy6
This was the south coast cleanup trip.