Link won’t work

Nothing is talked about more than the Southern Link. On and on and on round in circles. It’s all a waste of time.

I’ve only recently moved to the city, I’m a country girl and I can tell you with absolute assurance that you don’t clear a blocked stream from the upstream end. That just makes it worse. Rocks Rd and Waimea Rd are not the only places that block up with traffic; the whole Stoke by-pass is blocked by the bottle-necks of Richmond.

The Annesbrook round-about itself is a bottle-neck. How is delivering traffic faster to these downstream barriers going to improve anything? The problem is caused by too many cars on the entire road system not just those two streets.

Nothing short of an extensive array of flyovers, tunnels, bridges etc at every junction and pedestrian crossing all the way out past Richmond, or a giant causeway across the Bay, is going to make any difference. The roads are already pretty good. Leave them alone.

Let people think of personal changes they can make when they get too fed-up with it all, like carpooling or insisting on staggered working hours. We could spend all those millions on anger therapy instead! classic Green win-win-win: good for people, good for the environment, and good for the economy.’’

Security of tenure so you can’t be kicked out when it suits your landlord and kids aren’t having to swap schools several times a year. The policy’s three- year tenure will make a big difference to parent’s ability to find, and keep, jobs and the children’s opportunity to learn.

Overall the Green Party’s policy will cost, over three years, the same as the present estimated cost of the Auckland East-West Link but every dollar invested will be returned several fold . sides. This has confused many into thinking the poison is 1080, when it is actually Brodifacoum. All scientists I have spoken to say Brodifacoum should have stayed on far away islands, and even there not by dropping it out by helicopter. The pro-1080 folk have been instrumental in preventing new ideas being looked at. We could have had the Brook Waimarama Nature Research Institute.