ponsonby fags can't eat on the footpath

[crashe]

Ponsonby is OK. I work there!!! I yell out the window to Crashe on her way to White Cross!

Yeah well Scorpygirl, do you want to yell out the window again this Wednesday... say at about 10.30am... guess where I am heading again...

So look out for me hobbling throu the car park again... just before 10.30am
If you aint hanging out the window mate... I shall have to yell up to you...

[sunhuntin]

winja....you raise a bloody good point. we dont have anything near that bad here, but there are a few places that have tables and chairs out, the main one being the buzz bar, across from where i work. they even have a little fence thing that slots into holes in the ground. tables and chairs, i think 3 with 2 chairs...in the summer they have umbrellas in the tables, which makes it even worse. just the right height to lose an eye.

[Scorpygirl]

Yeah well Scorpygirl, do you want to yell out the window again this Wednesday... say at about 10.30am... guess where I am heading again...

So look out for me hobbling throu the car park again... just before 10.30am
If you aint hanging out the window mate... I shall have to yell up to you...

Will do Crashe!!! See you Wednesday from my window!! Hope it all goes well at the Docs.

[GIXser]

thank fuck the council has finally done something about this , these cafe owners have spoilt it for themselves , for instance cezanne used to have 2 small tables outside not blocking access to pedestrians etc etc , last time i went past you couldnt even park your car outside without opening your door into a patron , to walk past i had to walk on the road , it was fucken ridiculous .
resteraunts spilling out onto the footpath have got worse and worse , you can see awnings out there to give diners shelter and further inconvinience pedestrians , if we parked our bikes on the footpath like these pilick cafe and resteraunt owners park their chairs and tables we'd get a ticket quick smart .
i had an arguement down the 3 lamps end after buying a roll from a bakery , i sat down at the tables outside a cafe and some foreigner cafe owner came out and told me i cant sit there , what i said you telling me i cant sit here in this public area partly owned by me a tax paying rate paying new zealander ,i told him to fuck off back to his own country and sat there and then left my rubbish for him to clean up .

if they put the tables outside" you should be able to sit there, its a public area, as far as telling the owner off---- Good on ya-- should'a done a burnout on his front steps--

[far queue]

This is in today's Press about the situation here in Chch ...
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/thepres...1a6009,00.html

[miSTa]

This is in today's Press about the situation here in Chch ...
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/thepres...1a6009,00.html

This pisses me off - they moan about the rent and that the council is making money but who payed for, maintains, and replaces the fucking footpath they're on? Tell them get the fuck off the footpath full stop.

[far queue]

This pisses me off - they moan about the rent and that the council is making money but who payed for, maintains, and replaces the fucking footpath they're on? Tell them get the fuck off the footpath full stop.

Not only that but I (and plenty of others) used to park in the free motorbike parking area that used to be there, but got removed when the footpath was extended for those cafes.

[Deviant Esq]

This pisses me off - they moan about the rent and that the council is making money but who payed for, maintains, and replaces the fucking footpath they're on? Tell them get the fuck off the footpath full stop.

And who, pray tell, is also pondering closing down several city public libraries and public pools because it is costing them money to keep them running, but at the same time contemplating a $100M sculpture? If you read The Press daily (opinion section) as I do - nothing else to read on my breaks at work - you'll know that the Christchurch City Council is trying very hard to fuck the city up and make as much money as they can in the process. They've totally lost their focus for improving the city for everyone, not just their silver lined pockets. CCC is wasting taxpayers money with bullshit sculptures and art pieces when serious assets to the city and general maintainence and improvents are being ignored. They need a serious wakeup call.

[Lou Girardin]

You can thank the Govt for these local body initiatives. It was the Govt that changed the Local Bodies Act to enable them to indulge in profit making ventures.
Then again, Aucklanders voted for Cereal Man. Before that it was Banksie, they deserve all they get.

[miSTa]

And who, pray tell, is also pondering closing down several city public libraries and public pools because it is costing them money to keep them running, but at the same time contemplating a $100M sculpture? If you read The Press daily (opinion section) as I do - nothing else to read on my breaks at work - you'll know that the Christchurch City Council is trying very hard to fuck the city up and make as much money as they can in the process. They've totally lost their focus for improving the city for everyone, not just their silver lined pockets. CCC is wasting taxpayers money with bullshit sculptures and art pieces when serious assets to the city and general maintainence and improvents are being ignored. They need a serious wakeup call.

You're not wrong there Redge, curiously I found this:

Purpose of local government—

The purpose of local government is—

(a)to enable democratic local decision-making and action by, and on behalf of, communities; and

(b)to promote the social, economic, environmental, and cultural well-being of communities, in the present and for the future.

Quote Source

I'm no lawyer but to me it suggests that the CCC is running contary to the LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 2002. The closing of public facilities can hardly fulfil point (b).

Roll on the local body elections next year.

[Deviant Esq]

Indeed. Trouble is, you can stand on your Soap Box and preach all you like, you just get ignored. There are lots of people who aren't impressed with this at all. On top of that, CCC has taken companies off it's stragetic asset list, which frees them up for later sale. Included in these: Christchurch Red Bus Company, surely an asset to the city of great value; and Port of Lyttleton, which used to turn a profit until CCC decided to muck around with it. Now that it's making a loss, CCC is trying to sell it off, using it as a cash cow, when obviously Port of Lyttelton is a humongous asset to the region.

It's beyond me how these guys deserve to get paid.