Anyone here from Auck City Council?

[Grahameeboy]

well i was gutted last night as it took me 14 minutes to get to work - on the bike even! it's only 24 kms though, but i did have to slow down a bit as a truck must have spilt some grain on the road cause there were birds everywhere!

keeping below 100k..

[Drunken Monkey]

Ah yes...'car pooling'...the sensible answer to the city's traffic problems.

How many people here who drive (or ride) to work actually live with, 'on-the-way' past or near a colleague in a practical enough fashion that makes this a viable option?

How many couples/flatties work in opposite directions from home base?

How many people, like me, are self-employed/contractors whose vehicle and the irregular travel required make car pooling an impossibility?

I beleive many people who can car pool do. The sad impracticality is that most Aucklander's can't, even if they wanted to.

[Grahameeboy]

Ah yes...'car pooling'...the sensible answer to the city's traffic problems.

How many people here who drive (or ride) to work actually live with, 'on-the-way' past or near a colleague in a practical enough fashion that makes this a viable option?

How many couples/flatties work in opposite directions from home base?

How many people, like me, are self-employed/contractors whose vehicle and the irregular travel required make car pooling an impossibility?

I beleive many people who can car pool do. The sad impracticality is that most Aucklander's can't, even if they wanted to.

Agree....made a similar point in my last post.......Auckland is a vaste complex place which makes car pooling difficult.

[ManDownUnder]

Build a bridge mate.

At the risk of having to explain myself... I don't mean build a bridge to cross the harbour... I meant build a bridge and GET OVER IT (the issue that is - in case you missed it).

It's the price of progress. You don't get new roads without old ones being ripped up, and traffic being inconvenienced.

I agree with carpooling ideas, and with Auckland not lending itself nicely to economic transport mechanisms. But to bitch and moan about people who are simply doing their jobs is pathetic.

As I said - build a bridge. Blame those that make the decisions - sure. Hell you can even hold them accountable. But goive them the right of reply, l-i-s-t-e-n to what they have to say, and don't blame the worker bees who're simply working to feed their families.

[ManDownUnder]

Agree....made a similar point in my last post.......Auckland is a vaste complex place which makes car pooling difficult.

Wouldn't it be nice to have a decent public transport mechanis... naaa - I'm only dreaming. That'll never happen in Auckland...

[Drunken Monkey]

Agree....made a similar point in my last post.......Auckland is a vaste complex place which makes car pooling difficult.

True, true. Also very valid point RE: retail hours. We're big enough and ugly enough now to start operating retail hours like bigger (read: proper) cities, i.e. shops open 10/11am, open until 8/10pm.

[Grahameeboy]

Wouldn't it be nice to have a decent public transport mechanis... naaa - I'm only dreaming. That'll never happen in Auckland...

Yep......should use the waterways more I reckon.............buses will never cut it.........sounds stupid but I reckon we should go for a mono rail as it uses existing road routes and still keeps roads for Commercial traffic....at some stage crunch time will happen and not too far away either...........my other idea, which is stupid is a caterpault from the North Shore.....

[Finn]

It's the price of progress. You don't get new roads without old ones being ripped up, and traffic being inconvenienced.

Please explain where and how Auckland is progressing under this Council.

[MisterD]

Yep......should use the waterways more I reckon.............buses will never cut it.........sounds stupid but I reckon we should go for a mono rail as it uses existing road routes and still keeps roads for Commercial traffic....at some stage crunch time will happen and not too far away either...........my other idea, which is stupid is a caterpault from the North Shore.....

Trams / light rail. All the best cities have 'em. Amsterdam, Stockholm, Manchester, Croydon, er ok, um....I'll re-think that and come back.

[MisterD]

Please explain where and how Auckland is progressing under this Council.

Down the crapper, rapidly. It'll never get better until they pull all the cities together under one mayor, and that'll never happen 'cos that mayor would have a bigger political mandate than the wasters in Wellington.

[Maha]

For shits sake Finn get the hell of Auks and come live up here mate, traffic in Warkworth is about.............. um 10 cars........bastards ! plus we could do with a humourous prick like you here, there are some people here with 'pick me' on the forehead............

[Grahameeboy]

Trams / light rail. All the best cities have 'em. Amsterdam, Stockholm, Manchester, Croydon, er ok, um....I'll re-think that and come back.

Born in Thornton Heath near Croydon......my Sister lives in Croydon....tram seems to work okay....when I pop back Croydon is like a really free of cars at certain times of day....guess mono-rail would avoid having to mess around too much with roads and then there is the bridge of course.....yeah big think tank on that one

[ManDownUnder]

Please explain where and how Auckland is progressing under this Council.

Yeah good point - but to grab a couple of topical (i.e. roading) examples... are you suggesting we:

Rip up the NW to Northern link they're putting it - it's a waste of time.

Cancel the completion of the South to NW link. I'd rather put the cars through the back roads or spaghetti junctins

[Finn]

At the risk of having to explain myself... I don't mean build a bridge to cross the harbour... I meant build a bridge and GET OVER IT (the issue that is - in case you missed it).

It's the price of progress. You don't get new roads without old ones being ripped up, and traffic being inconvenienced.

I agree with carpooling ideas, and with Auckland not lending itself nicely to economic transport mechanisms. But to bitch and moan about people who are simply doing their jobs is pathetic.

As I said - build a bridge. Blame those that make the decisions - sure. Hell you can even hold them accountable. But goive them the right of reply, l-i-s-t-e-n to what they have to say, and don't blame the worker bees who're simply working to feed their families.

What colour is the sky in your world? Read some of the intelligent posts about why car pooling wouldn't work in Auckland.

So we should all be conformists and not open our mouths when retards from Council make stupid decisions that effect tax payers? The fact that they are NOT doing their jobs is the problem.

The right of reply? Try getting hold of one of those useless cunts in roading. I have several times. Only ONCE have they returned my call and this gibbering idiot couldn't provide any logical explanation to a simple question.

[Str8 Jacket]

The right of reply? Try getting hold of one of those useless cunts in roading. I have several times. Only ONCE have they returned my call and this gibbering idiot couldn't provide any logical explanation to a simple question.

The gibbering idiot will "just be doing his job". Those that make the decisions dont have contact with the public and I doubt that they live in the "real world" either.
When I suggested car pooling I meant maybe that instead of one person taking one car and all going out of their way why not all of them get in one car and be dropped of at the correct bus stop or train stop or whatever and go from there. When I lived in Auckland I had no licence of any type and lived in Takapuna but worked in Mt Albert, I would have to bus then ferry then bus then walk then bus. It goes without saying that Aklds public transport is a joke so I understand that in many cases this may not work either, but I bet it would work in many cases....