So: the verdict is back, and the commissioners of the Council have agreed to the building of a new Mall in Johnsonville. And they’re also now formally seeking your feedback on the deletion of the Mall in Manners St. Apart from the name, there are very few similarities between them. I confess that I’m a wee bit surprised at the go-ahead for the J’ville Mall, given…
Maximus
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And so here we are again, with another week of deluded and denuded, grumpy, sour-faced, anorexic models prancing around the Viaduct, under the impression that Auckland Fashion Week is of global importance. Today, hold your breath, Pamela Anderson arrives to make a major fashion statement, with a range of swimwear that is not made of fur or leather.
Maximus
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The whole topic of Fat Ladies vs Fat Laddies brings up discussion whether either are more suitable for denoting the End of the Boom – and not (given that Opera is such a high money thing that booms in a boom and busts in a bust) the End of the Recession. So while in the prior posting we may not have got around to the main…
Philip
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MANNERS MALL OPTIONS Revoke the pedestrian-only status to allow for a two-way bus route. (pictured) Keep the mall but ban vehicles turning right from Victoria St into Manners St. Make a two-way bus route via Mercer St, Wakefield St, lower Cuba St and Manners St east. Make a two-way bus route via Dixon St and upper Willis St. The proposed Manners Mall makeover is relatively uninteresting,…
Maximus
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The words on everyone’s lips seem to be “Is the recession over yet?” and yet no common answer seems to be forth-coming. Is it still going and are we still in it? Was it short lived and relatively benign, or is it more of an indication of fundamental structural failures within our modern banking model? Who knows? Who do we trust to know? If people couldn’t…
Maximus
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It’s interesting how conversations about value for money can get carried away, and once away, may never come back. As you may have noted, at Eye of the Fish we’ve got more worked up over the outrageous waste of tax-payers money that is the edifice called the Supreme Court (approx $50 million down the drain really) or the proposal for the National Library (which has made…
Maximus
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The joy and sense of fun that is the Wellington Waterfront never ceases to amaze me. Today in the local paper, an expose is made on a number of new / newly released projects for the waterfront, of which I just can’t ignore. Entitled, perhaps a little too zoomorphicaly, “Is that toilet a crayfish or an aardvark?“, the Dom Post unveils attention on a number of…
Maximus
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There’s a fair amount of non-stop hoo-hah going on about Auckland’s proposed “Super City” status, and it’s time we Wellingtonians started to fight back. Nonewithstanding the fact that Auckland is really barely a city at all, and more just a collection of shopping centres and some nice swimming beaches connected by motorways, Auckland is somehow perceived of by some misguided few as being a proper place…
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