Tolls of $6 proposed for Auckland Harbour Bridge, $3 to enter city

[The Stranger:Me]

I'm gonna act crazy, start pissing in my pants at work and eating slugs and shit, get diagnosed as mentally ill.

Um Postie, I hate to have to be the one to tell you this, but ...

[ManDownUnder]

i have a solution. I'm gonna act crazy, start pissing in my pants at work and eating slugs and shit, get diagnosed as mentally ill and sit on the sickness benefit,

Just help yourself to a couple of dozen Lion Red, and have the Vindaloo from hell...

[ManDownUnder]

I love the inference that you "could always take public transport".

IN AUCKLAND?????

Also - Let's say I live in Hamilton and want to head north to ... Whangarei.

I have to pay to go THROUGH Auckland?

[WRT]

go to jail.
get waitered on, meals cooked for you, rent for free, new mates.. just imagine how much you'd save.. just a shame you can't go out and ride the bike around as much..

Never mind not being able to ride your bike, its other people trying to ride you like a bike thats the issue . . . I say, watch out for Bubba . . .

[bugjuice]

buy one of those Aqua cars and don't use the roads. Yeah, they're about $250,000, but just think how much you'd save on road tolls, dear..
besides, we don't need a boat then..

Actually, I saw one of those on the harbour bridge the other day. Thought it was a waste, cos it goes in water, and there he is getting slower in traffic.. dumbarse

[Postie]

Never mind not being able to ride your bike, its other people trying to ride you like a bike thats the issue . . . I say, watch out for Bubba . . .

just take this with you

[sAsLEX]

go to jail.
get waitered on, meals cooked for you, rent for free, new mates.. just imagine how much you'd save.. .

your forgetting the porn as well

[WRT]

What would you do with that - eat it?? Some soap aint gonna save your sphincter. Unless you mean that it should be used as lube, in which case you'd wind up getting an enima at the same time. Oh yay, clean inside AND out!!

[sAsLEX]

And parking is already increibly expensive for the facilities you get.

A mate at uni asked how much my bike was, ended up being less than what he has paid in parking during uni, not including the fact I park 30 m from a lecture and dont get slowed up by traffic, silly cagers

[bugjuice]

at work, I pay a little over a dollar a day to park under the building. Cars pay about $15 a day..

[WRT]

Just some rough calculations . . . at 5 days x 52 weeks, minus around 15 holidays and 11 stats, then at $8 per day for parking (which is what they charge across the road from my work - open air parking with no security) your looking at $1,872 per year. Meaning you could purchase something like this and have enough coin left over for basic gear. Then factor in the fuel savings, plus as SAS said, time spent in traffic coupled with the freedom of parking. And at the end of the year you have a $1,000 bike that you could flog off, add the next years $1872 savings to it and just keep grading up each year. You'd be on a brand spankers gixxer in no time!

[Ixion]

Does that mean I would have to pay to park in my own carport?

Yep. The full report highlights this as an implementation issue. Need for parking wardens to have statutory access to private dwellings.

BTW, you'd pay the parking charge even if you weren't using the vehicle .Sucks to live in an inner city apartment eh ?

[Ixion]

Might be an interesting litmus test to see if BRONZ have any balls left >?

By rights if push bikes are exempt, bikes should be - after all it's a CONGESTION charge (not actually a tax in disguise, oh no perish such a thought). And we don't contribute to congestion. They say

What about commercial vehicles?
Charged at the same rate as private cars as each contributes roughly equally to congestion.

Well, we don't contribute equally. So we should be exempt. But we're not , in the draft. ALL motor vehicles to pay.

[Lou Girardin]

A Labour Govt that's scratching to get a fourth term is not going to introduce charges that hit it's voters hardest of all.
Not to mention the Shore seceding from NZ if they toll the bridge again.

[Flatcap]

Yep. The full report highlights this as an implementation issue. Need for parking wardens to have statutory access to private dwellings.

BTW, you'd pay the parking charge even if you weren't using the vehicle .Sucks to live in an inner city apartment eh ?

I would like to see the warden get over my 6 - foot high fence and past the dog, not to mention the bat weilding occupant. The Meter reader can't even get into my little Fort Knox

BTW, I'm not in an apartment, I'm in a bungalow that just happens to be centrally located.

This is another example of poorly thought out policy.