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@no-quarter said in NZ Politics:
@jegga said in NZ Politics:
Let’s say you had a budget coming out that was a bit embarrassing as you had to reneg on promises like making dr visits cheaper and to make matters worse you’d been called on your fiscal shortcomings before the election and denied they existed .
What would you do to take the focus off it?
Probably a bit early to stage induced labour , go into high dudgeon mode over your outrage that people talk about your partner on social media is a good option though .
From what I can see via google searches the "rumors" are absolutely outrageous, but still probably not as bad as the stuff that was floating around about John Key. That was next level.
I honestly hadn't heard of any rumors up until they did this big announcement - I agree I think they're trying to play the victim to take some heat off the absolute clustrerfuck they've been up to this point.
What was the John Key rumours?
Let's face it he's obviously a member of the Illuminati...
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@taniwharugby Hekia Parata?
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@toddy said in NZ Politics:
@taniwharugby Hekia Parata?
Imagine how smug a child born of those two would be - Jegga would long for the days of Max Key.
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@kirwan nah she's too busy at the moment...
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I wonder if Hillary told Jacinda about her links with Sir Edmund?
As told by Mark Steyn:
...in the mid-Nineties when she visited New Zealand and met Sir Edmund Hillary, the conqueror of Everest, and for some reason decided to tell him he was the guy her parents had named her after. Hmm. Edmund Hillary reached the top of Everest in 1953. Hillary Rodham was born in 1947, when Sir Edmund was an obscure New Zealand beekeeper and a somewhat unlikely inspiration for two young parents in the Chicago suburbs. ------- Eventually, when it was noticed that Hillary was born six years before the ascent of Everest, Clinton aides tried assuring skeptics that her parents had seen a press interview with Sir Edmund in his beekeeping days, Mr. and Mrs. Rodham apparently being the only Illinois subscribers to The New Zealand Apiarist.
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Saw this report on Newshub....
So I sourced the original....
Look at that fucking chart!
Has no-one from Newshub or Yale (or the NZ government for that matter) ever been overseas and wandered round London, or a US city - let alone Poland or Mexico.
I'd guess that, actually, five of the top six countries in that chart would probably have amongst the lowest levels of genuine homelessness. Sweden FFS!!!
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@Chris-B hmm that newshub article seems to have ommitted this statement from their source:
"Absence of a definition of homelessness, agreed to by most nations, hampers meaningful comparisons".
Gee, I wonder why. The author wouldn't have an agenda would they? I mean, including NZs very wide definition of homelessness at the very least would help provide a bit of context.
The state of mainstream media today...
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@no-quarter Not just mainstream media - the author of the original is apparently a former director of the UN Population Division.
You'd imagine he's traveled the world a bit and has some clue about poverty and relative measures.
I had a boss who used to talk about passing "The Red Face Test". Is what we're saying sensible enough that it can be defended?
Homelessness in the OECD is highest in NZ, Australia, Canada, Germany and Sweden? Which OECD countries are wealthy, have relatively strong social welfare systems, when you wander around them you see large numbers of people sleeping in cardboard boxes, are too fucking cold to live outside....
My headline would be "Global Homelessness statistics: Worthless".
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In some cases, too, homelessness leads to alcoholism, substance abuse and mental illness.
Surely the clauses in that statement are back to front.
National Radio did a very good series on homelessness a year or two back. It was clear mental illness was a big contributor. The surprising thing was how many lived on the streets through choice though even when they had the option to be housed somewhere "proper"
Just as the deadbeat sack of shits that sit on Queen St with their signs out
'feed me" prey on cruise ship tourists. The doco made it very clear these people expect to make $80/hr - tax free. With that sort of coin there is no need to live on the street -
Returning to roads as TR and BSG in particular were disappointed at lack on investment in roads in their regions.
NZTA has released its draft Investment Policy for the next decade
"The draft GPS 2018 reflects a significant lift in ambition for improving the safety of the land transport system. The TAIP responds to this by proposing a programme of initiatives across state highway maintenance, operations and improvements, that:
• Is targeted to the most significant risks: Investment will focus on reducing the risk of head-on crashes, targeting high-risk intersections, making roads and roadsides more forgiving in the event of human error or mechanical fault, and protecting vulnerable users such as pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists.
• Can be delivered swiftly: We are focused on highest-value interventions that can be delivered within the next three years and immediately deliver significant safety benefits. For safety interventions that may take more time to design and deliver, we are investigating procurement approaches to expedite delivery as much as possible.
The investments proposed by the TAIP will significantly reduce the number of deaths and serious injuries on our state highways. The full impact of the programme will be realised by June 2028, when the reduction in deaths or serious injuries will reach around 200 per year. By prioritising the most significant risks, the TAIP will achieve nearly half of this annual reduction by 2021.
The key components of the safety programme are set out below:
• Complete the existing roads and roadsides corridor safety programme: All safety projects that are currently underway will be prioritised for completion.
• Develop a new roads and roadsides corridor safety programme: This includes five new targeted programmes covering high-risk intersections, median barriers, motorcycle routes, speed management on high risk routes, and interventions to support active modes of transport such as walking and cycling.
The programmes above contain a balance of the best-performing projects across the following:
• Safe system enhancement works: includes quick-win median barrier projects, works to facilitate speed management, major intersection improvements, and corridor enhancements costing $2 million per kilometre.
• Safer corridor improvements: includes motorcycle routes, active mode corridor improvements, and corridor projects costing greater than $200,000 per kilometre.
• Safe intersection improvements: includes high risk intersection projects, and active mode intersection improvements.
• Safety management works: includes corridor improvements costing less than $200,000 per kilometre, such as developing and implementing speed management opportunities.
The Transport Agency will collaborate with its partners to deliver the 2018–21 safety programme in support of the safe system approach."It proposes significant safety upgrades across the country including safety enhancements from Whangarei to Kawakawa and Wellsford that are given the highest priority
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"Projects that seek to reduce the severity and frequency of crashes to reduce deaths and serious injury are critical. This is why we are proposing to invest in:
• SH2 Paeroa to Tauranga Safer Corridor
• SH30 Awakeri to Whakatane Safer Corridor
• SH30 and SH33 Rotorua to Paengaroa Safer Corridor
• SH30 Owhata to SH33 Intersection Safer Corridor
• SH5 Barnard Road to SH5/36 Intersection Safer Corridor
• SH5/30 Intersection to Springfield Safe System Enhancements"Pokeno to Paeroa is also given the highest priority
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@dogmeat said in NZ Politics:
Returning to roads as TR and BSG in particular were disappointed at lack on investment in roads in their regions.
NZTA has released its draft Investment Policy for the next decade
"The draft GPS 2018 reflects a significant lift in ambition for improving the safety of the land transport system. The TAIP responds to this by proposing a programme of initiatives across state highway maintenance, operations and improvements, that:
• Is targeted to the most significant risks: Investment will focus on reducing the risk of head-on crashes, targeting high-risk intersections, making roads and roadsides more forgiving in the event of human error or mechanical fault, and protecting vulnerable users such as pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists.
• Can be delivered swiftly: We are focused on highest-value interventions that can be delivered within the next three years and immediately deliver significant safety benefits. For safety interventions that may take more time to design and deliver, we are investigating procurement approaches to expedite delivery as much as possible.
The investments proposed by the TAIP will significantly reduce the number of deaths and serious injuries on our state highways. The full impact of the programme will be realised by June 2028, when the reduction in deaths or serious injuries will reach around 200 per year. By prioritising the most significant risks, the TAIP will achieve nearly half of this annual reduction by 2021.
The key components of the safety programme are set out below:
• Complete the existing roads and roadsides corridor safety programme: All safety projects that are currently underway will be prioritised for completion.
• Develop a new roads and roadsides corridor safety programme: This includes five new targeted programmes covering high-risk intersections, median barriers, motorcycle routes, speed management on high risk routes, and interventions to support active modes of transport such as walking and cycling.
The programmes above contain a balance of the best-performing projects across the following:
• Safe system enhancement works: includes quick-win median barrier projects, works to facilitate speed management, major intersection improvements, and corridor enhancements costing $2 million per kilometre.
• Safer corridor improvements: includes motorcycle routes, active mode corridor improvements, and corridor projects costing greater than $200,000 per kilometre.
• Safe intersection improvements: includes high risk intersection projects, and active mode intersection improvements.
• Safety management works: includes corridor improvements costing less than $200,000 per kilometre, such as developing and implementing speed management opportunities.
The Transport Agency will collaborate with its partners to deliver the 2018–21 safety programme in support of the safe system approach."It proposes significant safety upgrades across the country including safety enhancements from Whangarei to Kawakawa and Wellsford that are given the highest priority
and
"Projects that seek to reduce the severity and frequency of crashes to reduce deaths and serious injury are critical. This is why we are proposing to invest in:
• SH2 Paeroa to Tauranga Safer Corridor
• SH30 Awakeri to Whakatane Safer Corridor
• SH30 and SH33 Rotorua to Paengaroa Safer Corridor
• SH30 Owhata to SH33 Intersection Safer Corridor
• SH5 Barnard Road to SH5/36 Intersection Safer Corridor
• SH5/30 Intersection to Springfield Safe System Enhancements"Pokeno to Paeroa is also given the highest priority
I found that uncomfortable as I loathe this govt so much that I read anything about them through that lense. Nothing in there is inherently annoying form an objective point of view, but it still annoyed me. I think it is because I know more about the behind the scenes bullshit that is occurring with SH2 (have I mentioned Twyford is obnoxious, arrogant and dimwitted fuckwit?). That info you provided seems light on specifics and I will wait to see what they actually propose, they are good at bumper sticker slogans, promises and working groups.
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@baron-silas-greenback It is a draft. My main take out is that it reflects a change in emphasis by NZTA that reflects the shift in focus by Labour away from the RONS
Timing of release clearly dictated by the Budget.
Just as clearly Nats have decided to go after Labour over transport as they see it as a way to attack NZF in the regions. The only problem with that as a strategy is it could mean having to defend their own transport program which was pretty woeful.
The real surprise is they haven't announced another 20 independent enquiries .....
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there is another road that was reclassified as a SH that has a lot of logging trucks travel on it, and I would say there are accidents on it at least every other week (one has had a logging truck 'fall off the road' on a sharp bend, requiring cranes to 'right' it), yet I see no improvments on it since it became a SH (was 18 months back IIRC)
So while not specific to Labour, it is just another road being ignored.
The poor workmanship on the stretch of road near my house is getting worse...
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@taniwharugby quick question. Is your road a SH or Council?
If the latter have a whinge at them. But I suspect if it was constructed by contractors it may well be a case of everybody standing back pointing the finger ... contractor blaming designer blaming council (or whoever road control authority us), blaming budgets and whingey ratepayers , contractor and sealing subbie blaming each other, blaming council/TNZ standards, blaming bitumen suppliers, quarries etc ... until they work out who will end up carrying the can. Sounds to me like there was an error somewhere which I don't think is down to government policy.
What can go wrong politically is if some muppet "guaranteed" completion by a certain date meaning corners get cut and things fuck up.
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@booboo my road is not a SH, next designation down...
it is just amusing the amount of wastage that must go on at re-doing roads over and over, almost like they do a poor job to get out and re-do it, or maybe there is like a 90 day warranty or something
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