Went to the Arden open day a few months ago (we were living not too far away), it’s a fantastic space: it’ll be interesting to see how the current vacant land around it is formed into a new neighbourhood in a few years.

We can hope that they read to the bottom of the Police press release, & understand it too.
Whether or not a journalist or talk-back host chooses to distinguish, or in bad faith doesn’t, is another matter entirely.

I think it’s a close-run thing with Winston Peters.
And both of them would be salty to find that they’re in second place to the other.
And that makes me just slightly happy.

'why don't we just put a cap on the rates increases' is not a serious response. It just isn't. It's adolescent (perjorative) at best.

'I would simply just not raise the rates' is adolescent (complimentary) shit posting, but the irony and snark is inherent to the format.

Missed that, sorry to duplicate your post.

Fair point - my closure idea was due to the horrifying bus stops at Ngauranga interchange: accessing them across the crossing-free slip-roads is just wild.
And the station being through an underpass, next to the stock effluent dump doesn’t help either (though the view over the harbour is great).

Replace Ngauranga station with a reopened Kaiwharawhara.
Have platform shelters & lifts for easy interchange between lines, and connections onto buses along Hutt Road / Ngaio Gorge, and pedestrian access to the ferry terminal.
A few billion left over for light rail, bike lanes, even road upgrades.

Exactly, it’s just LaLa Land thinking.
Then again, even the name they’ve come up with for their scheme has the smell of something cooked up over a steak dinner and a few bottles of pinot in Bellamys.

I’m confused by Watts’ assertion that the “the broader taxpayer [is] better off”, as if taxpayers are not also ratepayers too.
It’s just deflecting blame onto local councils for the govt’s fiscal choices.
Guess which assets will be considered ripe for privatisation when councils are impoverished?

Not sure if I were him, I’d want to be referencing “standing over” anyone.
But that’s just me.