A critical post questioning the practicality and value of a new transport link between Petone and Wellington, highlighting a lack of essential facilities and poor cost-benefit justification.
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Uh I wouldn't see it that way. Um, I wouldn't say that overall means making decisions for local communities. I do think that we need to get, for example, Wellington out of Auckland. Um they shouldn't be making decisions for Auckland's future. Uh what this is really about, you think about the panel more like a financial advisor, right? You have uh certain five uh financial wealth aspirations, you want to go about and set up a investment portfolio, um, or other and other types of uh aspirations. And what you need to do is get your uh your fundamentals right. Uh this is about making sure you don't make mistakes and that you actually uh uh maximize your returns. So uh cities are economic engines. They are um they need to be able to grow, they need to be able to grow our salaries, they need to be able to uh enable people to move and uh have freedom to locate to move to where they can work and actually be more productive. And that's basically really what this is about is about enabling them, giving them the advice they need uh so that they can uh make the choices they want, to have their own stories, write their own essays, but make sure that we are grading them, technically assessing them and getting the grammar right.
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Benno Blaschke: NZ Initiative Research Fellow on the suggestion to replace housing targets with price indicators, remove politics from housingSocial-media signal on the same topic, drawn from the social lens. Engagement is likes + 2×shares + 3×replies, the same weighting used across the digest cards. View on /social →
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