Vindicated & Ricky Gervais
I have this theory, well to be honest it's an observation, which I have been telling anyone who would listen about. And now dear reader, you are going to get it as well!
If you talk to most Aucklanders about traffic, they will complain visciously about it but will generally agree that traffic is better during school holidays. Guess what? Tuesday it was school holidays and the traffic was noticeably lighter than any normal work day. This is a fairly predictable result of school holidays when mummy's in their overblown four wheel drives take the fat little podgers to school because they are to lazy to walk, ride a bike, or even catch a bus. School holidays also typically coincide with breaks in the University terms, so this traffic is lessened as well.
The result of this thinking is that I thought we, meaning Transit or the Auckland Regional Council, should be thinking about providing free, or heavily subsidised public transport to school children/teenagers and university students to encourage them to get off the road. Yes, I know it's not technically "free" as someone had to pay for it, and that given the current complaints by the council about being strapped for cash it is unlikely to get off the ground, but I thought it was at least worth an airing!
The other plus side is that it might just get that generational shift happenining which everyone is hoping for. Of course, the public transport system itself will need an injection of $$ to ensure that it meets customer expectations. I still don't understand how the powers that be can sit there and tell people they should be getting out of their cars and using public transport, but I really don't see much investment going on.
I emailed the Chair of the Auckland Regional Council's Transport Policy Group the other day. To his credit he actually replied to my ramblings, which is more than I can say for the people from Transit. Bunch of muppets. Anyway, he had some good things to say, and some not so good things. Basically they are short on $$ and long on promises. So I think I will be an old man before I see any changes happening worth noting.
It will be interesting to see how all the road works on the central motorway junction effect the traffic in future. I have this sickening feeling that no matter what we do now, we will never get ahead of the traffic. We will get one part finished, only for it to be to little to late and the next project in line will be knocking on the door waiting to be started.
Anyway, Wednesday's traffic was as good as Tuesday's so I still think my observations are holding true. So far. I'll let you know how the rest of the week pans out.
I'll need to dedicate a bit more time to writing these blogs. I feel i'm rushing them at the moment. Or maybe I should jsut work on them over the days when I can, rather than worrying about posting one as soon as a I can. Yes, that sounds like a plan.
Right, Ricky Gervais. I purchased his two stand up performances on DVD on the weekend. Well, to be honest, I got one, and then mother felt she needed to buy me something as a present, so she purchased the other one for me. Nice of her!
I've watched the first one: Animals. Bloody hilarious. It only goes for 60 mins, but its dam funny. He goes into some depth on creation etc and also on a book he found whilst researching for his routine on homosexuality in the animal kingdom. I can't really do it justice here, but if you get the chance to watch it please do.
I'll let you know whether it's worth watching the second one. Titled Politics. I hope it's as good as the first. And my brother is getting his new series "The Extras" on DVD, which will be good to see as well. Yes, you may have guessed, I'm a bit of a fan.
There was another progamme I found on the web which is currently being aired in Britain called The IT Crowd. Seems to be about a bunch of I.T. losers trying to muddle their way through work. Looked very funny as well, so it will be good when that arrives here.
Whilst we are talking about TV shows, the other big one everyone watches is Lost. We are about 6 episodes into series 2 at the moment, and so far it has lived up to my expectations which were set by series 1. Feeding us nice little bits when we need them. I was a bit pissed the other week though when TVNZ decided in thier wisdom to have a recap and waste a weeks worth of waiting for Wednesday to roll around. Thanks TVNZ.
We are off to see the specialist 2moro for Sarah's gum. She has a little bit of a gap in there which we are concerned about and would like to get some expert's opinion on it. We do think though that it has started to sort itself out, so there may not be anything to worry about. We just want to know if we need to get it sorted as there are enough things in this world to worry about without having to worry about something which could be fixed.
If you talk to most Aucklanders about traffic, they will complain visciously about it but will generally agree that traffic is better during school holidays. Guess what? Tuesday it was school holidays and the traffic was noticeably lighter than any normal work day. This is a fairly predictable result of school holidays when mummy's in their overblown four wheel drives take the fat little podgers to school because they are to lazy to walk, ride a bike, or even catch a bus. School holidays also typically coincide with breaks in the University terms, so this traffic is lessened as well.
The result of this thinking is that I thought we, meaning Transit or the Auckland Regional Council, should be thinking about providing free, or heavily subsidised public transport to school children/teenagers and university students to encourage them to get off the road. Yes, I know it's not technically "free" as someone had to pay for it, and that given the current complaints by the council about being strapped for cash it is unlikely to get off the ground, but I thought it was at least worth an airing!
The other plus side is that it might just get that generational shift happenining which everyone is hoping for. Of course, the public transport system itself will need an injection of $$ to ensure that it meets customer expectations. I still don't understand how the powers that be can sit there and tell people they should be getting out of their cars and using public transport, but I really don't see much investment going on.
I emailed the Chair of the Auckland Regional Council's Transport Policy Group the other day. To his credit he actually replied to my ramblings, which is more than I can say for the people from Transit. Bunch of muppets. Anyway, he had some good things to say, and some not so good things. Basically they are short on $$ and long on promises. So I think I will be an old man before I see any changes happening worth noting.
It will be interesting to see how all the road works on the central motorway junction effect the traffic in future. I have this sickening feeling that no matter what we do now, we will never get ahead of the traffic. We will get one part finished, only for it to be to little to late and the next project in line will be knocking on the door waiting to be started.
Anyway, Wednesday's traffic was as good as Tuesday's so I still think my observations are holding true. So far. I'll let you know how the rest of the week pans out.
I'll need to dedicate a bit more time to writing these blogs. I feel i'm rushing them at the moment. Or maybe I should jsut work on them over the days when I can, rather than worrying about posting one as soon as a I can. Yes, that sounds like a plan.
Right, Ricky Gervais. I purchased his two stand up performances on DVD on the weekend. Well, to be honest, I got one, and then mother felt she needed to buy me something as a present, so she purchased the other one for me. Nice of her!
I've watched the first one: Animals. Bloody hilarious. It only goes for 60 mins, but its dam funny. He goes into some depth on creation etc and also on a book he found whilst researching for his routine on homosexuality in the animal kingdom. I can't really do it justice here, but if you get the chance to watch it please do.
I'll let you know whether it's worth watching the second one. Titled Politics. I hope it's as good as the first. And my brother is getting his new series "The Extras" on DVD, which will be good to see as well. Yes, you may have guessed, I'm a bit of a fan.
There was another progamme I found on the web which is currently being aired in Britain called The IT Crowd. Seems to be about a bunch of I.T. losers trying to muddle their way through work. Looked very funny as well, so it will be good when that arrives here.
Whilst we are talking about TV shows, the other big one everyone watches is Lost. We are about 6 episodes into series 2 at the moment, and so far it has lived up to my expectations which were set by series 1. Feeding us nice little bits when we need them. I was a bit pissed the other week though when TVNZ decided in thier wisdom to have a recap and waste a weeks worth of waiting for Wednesday to roll around. Thanks TVNZ.
We are off to see the specialist 2moro for Sarah's gum. She has a little bit of a gap in there which we are concerned about and would like to get some expert's opinion on it. We do think though that it has started to sort itself out, so there may not be anything to worry about. We just want to know if we need to get it sorted as there are enough things in this world to worry about without having to worry about something which could be fixed.
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