Ah nice. It’s been a while I’ve been in Welly, so I wasn’t sure what the current status is.

Didn’t all the trolley busses get scrapped in favor of Diesel some time ago?

Here here!

I have to spell my street name 50% of the time, and it’s a perfectly normal English word. The last place I lived had a slightly unusual English word name, and I had to spell it 90% of the time.

It’s my opinion that anyone who thought about upzoning logically for two minutes would come to the conclusion that it is necessary to substantially increase housing supply without also needing to substantially increase infrastructure. I’m glad to see the results are starting to be noticed.

I buy my sunnies from NZ Safety. Impact resistant, scratch resistant, comfortable wrap-arounds for less than 20 bucks.

Thank you for that.

I have re-read your original article, and I think it’s point is that the way crime is reported on does not match the reality of the situation, and that the ‘tough on crime/soft on crime’ rhetoric currently in the news cycle is not new and has nothing to do with actual crime rates. To this i agree.

As to the recent crime rates, they are overall trending downwards. However, as the article you linked pointed out, certain types of crime are on the rise. I would say it is important to try and understand why this is the case, and address the underlying causes, rather than increasing sentences or other harsher punishments. My reasoning is that we have been on the right track with our current approach, so we should not throw out the rehabilitation mindset just because it feels good to punish criminals more harshly.

Is it though? I haven’t seen any data suggesting it is.

It’s almost as if we need to decouple our feelings of crime, and rely on actual data.

It would be incredibly simple for the reserve bank to set up “Kiwicoin” or whatever, and tie it to EFTPOS.

Convenience is exactly the issue. Technology tends to make our lives easier. I don’t even have to take my wallet out now, just use my phone. It’s just so much easier. The transaction fee thing is annoying, but most of the time it’s so small I just pay it anyway, instead of going through the above-mentioned steps to pay with EFTPOS. I’d also add “chose the wrong account and it was declined” to those steps. I use EFTPOS so infrequently now I often forget which account I keep all my money in.

This is such a long fucking time coming. The only land left in Nelson to build on is steep hills, or productive land out past Richmond (and actually Tasman District Council at that point anyway). This has been needed for ages.

Yes very true. One reason I like wind farms, is they tend to be most profitable in areas where land is useful for little outside of forestry.

I applaud the initiative in finding new solutions to the problem of power generation and power cost to consumers. However, surely there are better locations. Wind farms on the many hills around the motu, solar farms on the ocean, wave power, etc.

What does that have to do with the Green’s proposal?

This information is posted in many places. If you actually care to know, a quick Google search would have turned up many articles on their proposed tax changes. Here is one of many.

I think it’s more like taking cough medicine to control a chronic chest infection, but ignoring the damp moldy home, the sedentary lifestyle and the smoking. If you treat the symptom the problem will persist.

Unfortunately, they only need to look like they’re doing something for about 1y to get the votes.

Good article.

It’s clear that of the 4 major parties, only really the Greens grasp the underlying causes of crime, and are pushing for treating the cause rather than bandaid solutions for the symptoms.

Does National’s transport plan add up?

Nope. /thread

Absolutely. Add to that some of the interviews saying there isn’t that much traffic on these roads anyway, and that induced demand is a real thing, you have a transport policy which will add nothing to the economy of NZ except for the contractors.