All hail our new Green mayor

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1. Ensur­ing that the dust­bowl that is Man­ners Mall is hosed down on the few dry days would be a nice start. Sand storms do not make for happy Wel­ling­to­ni­ans.

   Can we also get some changes in the types of bricks that the coun­cil insists on installing every­where? Slick bricks + rainy days = Cuba Mall ankle twist­ing danger zone. A little grip please.

2. Please ensure that the new met­link trains can carry bikes. Bike lock­ers at $20 p/a don’t work when you have to cycle at both ends of the train jour­ney. I expect bet­ter!

3. Make sure any spend­ing is with­in the cur­rent budget. My rates bill is over a hun­dred bucks a week as it is. That’s before I start pay­ing my mort­gage.

4. Bik­ing:

   Agree with Mar­tin on increas­ing bike quotas on trains bey­ond 2.

   Also, pub­lic trans­port to places where moun­tain bike parks have been estab­lished, such as Wainu­io­mata and Karori (Makara) is some­what under­mined by the fact busses don’t carry bikes. What’s the solu­tion here?

   I believe Celia has already prom­ised pro­gress a safe bike lane from Wel­ling­ton to Lower Hutt, so I show my sup­port for that. The cur­rent lane along SH2 has gaps near Petone and is very awk­ward to find near Kaiwhar­awhara.

   Lastly, hav­ing “Bike Boxes” on roads (where idle bikers can sit on roads at red traffic lights, in clear view of cars), is an excel­lent safety fea­ture that should be pro­gress­ively estab­lished.

5. free cup­cake Tues­day
   ima­gine how much more fun Tues­days would be if you could vis­it the coun­cil for a free cup­cake

6. No more money for the aquarium/cafe/weird box thing on the south coast. Or any oth­er ven­tures that sell them­selves as tour­ist amen­it­ies and over­look the impact they will have on Wel­ling­ton’s pre­cious loc­al envir­on­ment and com­munit­ies.

7. Just want to say con­grats! Kerry seemed to be not quite the gra­cious loser…insisting she would have won if the vot­ing sys­tem had been dif­fer­ent?! Glad to have that all behind us now.

8. Con­grat­u­la­tions Celia and thank god for STV. Now, please reduce the Mt Vic tun­nel to one lane – with a passing bay in the middle – that would sort the traffic prob­lems and attract tour­ists.

9. PS just to be clear – I was­n’t refer­ring call­ing Maranui a weird box thing. I was refer­ring to the aquar­i­um. The one that Kerry pumped $$$ in to.

10. Um, Jonny, what? I’m pretty much against any new roads, and totally sup­port new pub­lic trans­port ini­ti­at­ives instead of cater­ing to cars, but I fail to see how redu­cing the Mt Vic tun­nel to one lane would cut down traffic. Or attract tour­ists, for that mat­ter.

11. When we say “All Hail”, do we actu­ally mean “Sieg Heil”?

    I am just refer­ring to the abso­lute PR dis­aster that has befallen the Green move­ment after the 10–10 splat­ter­gate fiasco.

12. Andrew, what the “heil” are you talk­ing about?

13. Andrew seems to be keen on debat­ing cli­mate sci­ence
    in as many places on this site as pos­sible

14. I am not debat­ing cli­mate sci­ence

    I am refer­ring to the Spat­ter­gate story. Are you com­pletely unaware of this?

    I left one oth­er com­ment on this site, by the way.

    You need to take this onboard, because you need to increase your level of under­stand­ing on how the Green move­ments image has been dam­aged by this incid­ent.

    e.g

    http://econsultancy.com/us/blog/6684–10-10-splattergate-when-greenwashing-blows-up

    http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2010/10/splattergate-new-climategate.html

    Or maybe you think videos of killing chil­dren in the name of eco is “funny”, like some NZ blog­gers I could name.

15. I think videos of killing chil­dren are funny. If it’s in the name of eco, then that’s just the icing on the cake.

16. I watched the so-called “splat­ter­gate” film and can report the fol­low­ing:

    - It was dir­ec­ted by Richard Curtis for the Brit­sh “10:10” cam­paign.
    – It revolves around a creepy and some­what taste­less joke.
    – It has noth­ing to do with the Green Party of New Zea­l­and.
    – It has noth­ing to do with Celia Wade-Brown.

    It seems a mis­guided attemp­ted by the 10:10 cam­paign and Richard Curtis to be hil­ari­ous and thought-pro­vok­ing but miser­ably fail­ing.

    I’m really strug­gling to see any con­nec­tion with Celia Wade-Brown, unless every­one in the world who is involved with “green” issues is some­how (how?) mys­ter­i­ously con­nec­ted. Ooh – con­spir­acy!

17. I think videos of killing chil­dren are funny. If it’s in the name of eco, then that’s just the icing on the cake.

    It’s great to see that one does­n’t have to scratch too deeply into the Wel­ling­tonis­tas to find the true Hitler Youth lurk­ing in there

    Maybe you will find the Final Solu­tion video funny too

    http://grumpyoldtwat.blogspot.com/2010/10/climate-change-final-solution.html

    I agree. Killing people is fun.

    Keep the Wel­ling­ton Gas cham­bers warm for me eco­tards!!

18. In response to Robyn:

    Celia WB is a mem­ber of 350.org a- an organ­isa­tion that wishes to reduce CO2 levels to pre-indus­tri­al levels.

    The only way to achieve this is by the exterm­in­a­tion of a large per­cent­age of the world’s pop­u­la­tion.

    Of course, I real­ise that most Green’s don’t under­stand this basic fact, think­ing that we can drive an indus­tri­al nation on petuli oil and henna.

    How­ever, I would expect politi­cian’s to have a bit more under­stand­ing, (he said tongue in cheek)

    So, she is either
    (a) a liar
    (b) deluded
    © incred­ibly think
    (d) a gen­o­cid­al mani­ac

    My money is on b or c

19. I thought we were talk­ing about the 10:10 cam­paign. 350 is quite sep­ar­ate from that, yes?

    I’m still not sure how you’re link­ing the may­or of Wel­ling­ton to Richard Curtis’ fail­ure of a promo video.

    I’m not con­vinced about the strength of your argu­ment when you’re bring­ing Nazism into it right from the get-go. God­win’s Law has pretty much killed that line of rhet­or­ic.

20. Heh. I’m arguing with a glob­al warm­ing den­ier. No more of that, I think.

    ENDS

21. Heh. I’m arguing with a glob­al warm­ing den­ier

    No I am not, but don’t let me spoil your fun shiteat­er

22. Heh. I’m arguing with a glob­al warm­ing den­ier. No more of that, I think.

    ENDS
    

    Robyn, I think I need to explain this.

    Your remark com­pletely epi­tom­ises the atti­tude shown in the 10–10 video. I have shown to you the slight­est HINT that I might not accept your eco-solu­tions, and it is the end. I am branded a den­ier, and the con­ver­sa­tion ends.

    This is not God­win’s law. God­win stated that all argu­ments ENDED in com­par­is­on’s with nazism. am not end­ing it, I am start­ing it.

    What I see in the green move­ment is COMPLETE INTOLERANCE with any oth­er views oth­er than your own. This is why we call you eco­nazies, water­mel­ons, whatever.

    You need to under­stand this.

    I do actu­ally under­stand the need to pro­tect the envir­on­ment.
    How­ever, I am not pre­pared to kill of people which is what cur­rent green policies around the world are doing.

    So I am happy to work on Wel­ling­ton’s brand as the NZ cap­it­al of intol­er­ance, eco­nazism, and eugen­ics, if you want.

23. Dude … switch to decaf.

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