How dare we limit car activity
How dare they build cycleways or even pavements? Don’t they know that we all want to go everywhere in our gasguzzling, polluting, green house emission monsters. More roads I say.
We will not get out of our cars, they are needed to ferry little Johnny to school and to go to the local dairy. We also need lots of cheap parking everywhere.
We may just use the bus as long as we can park at the bus station right next to the bus, perish the thought of walking.
The fact that at least 10 bikes or scooters take up only one car park space is irrelevant. Most people seem to like the Los Angeles set-up with acres of concrete freeways, most of the time in total gridlock. It’s time to move on folks and try another way as most big cities in Europe are finding. Vince West, Milford. The Blues have now lost 13 games in a row against New Zealand teams. Perhaps Tana Umaga might consider a name change so they do not have the “Blues” permanently. Dave Miller, St Marys Bay. Your paper has spotlighted the arrogant, unresponsive, wasteful and waste-laying behaviour of Auckland Transport. The anti-community actions of this CCO are now legion.
There is little doubt that reality has been taken over by obsession, including among both the bureaucrats and board members. I hope that all of the businesses, business owners and business associations will now come together to challenge this problem which is destroying communities and businesses.
This matter needs to be taken on point blank by both the Government and the council. A.P. Holman, Northcote Point. Auckland Council should take a lesson from Honolulu and other cities in the USA.
Fit bike racks onto the front of buses, and stop installing cycleways on busy roads
A cyclist cycles on residential streets to bus route from home, boards the bus and then alights first at a stop, retrieves bike and completes journey to work or final destination. The cyclist is last on to the bus and first off, with almost no delay.
Bob Wichman, Local Board Councillor Howick/ Botany. I wonder by how many thousands our population will have shrunk by the time the Census results are evaluated. After all, electronic election voting didn’t really work so why was it thought that it would work now. A J Petersen, Kawerau. And so it begins again — the inexorable process of sowing in people’s minds a fear and loathing of another people, and so wooing them to war.
Too bad that the real threat to world peace is the one pointing the finger and its record of cold-blooded destruction of sovereign states, to further its global hegemony, is without precedent in world history. Too bad that its previous reasons for making war were clearly contrived. Too bad that the millions of its victims have no voice. Too bad we can’t see we’re being sucked in again. M. Evans, Tamaki.