The business of the Basin Reserve flyover has been on my mind so I thought I’d use this guest post to question our current strategy for SH1 between The Terrace and Kilbernie. You see, the thing is I’ve just not been able to work out who is supposed to be happy with the current strategy. Of course we’ve got the motorists represented by NZTA (and half…
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Ladies, gentlemen, and readers of this Blog: it is with great pleasure that I announce that we have a new guest writer contributing to the Eye of the Fish, someone both informed and passionate about the issues of our city. Erentz will launch his guest column shortly with some new and provocative ideas – coming up next.
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While we here at the Fish don’t normally venture into the suburbs much, the case of the leaky roof at Seatoun School has got us thinking. In my case, for the most part, thinking: what the heck is going on here and how can the construction industry learn from this? In a rare moment of publicity about the issues of a leaky building, the Wellingtonian featured…
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The Fish has been following developments in Parking Day for the last couple of years, and is heartily pleased that someone has got off their chuff and started the movement here too. Greg Bodnar managed to check out the scene in Lower Cuba St and check into a parking place for a few hours – taking up the officially designated car park space and turning it…
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A snippet in the paper a while back regarding the possibility of a “boutique cinema” in Wigan St has had the Fish thinking what a great idea this would be. For a city that used to be renown for high quality movie experiences (in the 1950s almost the whole town would turn out to the movies on a Friday night, in a wide range of small…
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It is only a few days away now, but I’m still not feeling the love for the Rugby World Cup. Former RadioNZ heavyweight Sean Plunket noted in his opinion piece in the DomPost a couple of weeks back that: “Whatever your view on the event and the significant expenditure of public funds by the last and current government on securing and preparing for it, RWC 2011…
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While the story of the moment is of course the untimely death of Alan Hubbard (and the much-voiced – in private, at least – was it deliberate, or just an incredibly coincidental accident), and the incredulous reaction of the ever-faithful in Timaru, who still believe in the rectitude of Saint Alan, despite the evidence to the contrary – the real story is elsewhere. Yes, we know…
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