Sunday, Apr 26, 2009 at 11:46
Sorry Clive did not mean to upset you, it was a bit tongue in cheek, people from Up here in the South find some of the remarks that come out of Auckland offensive too particularly some of those from the Auckland Mayor.
Now they expect the rest of the country to pay for the mess their roading system is in.
Far better to squander ratepayers money on soccer games, entertainers, shows etc that run at a loss and get the rest of the country to pay for the roads.
I was talking to the Local councillor after the ANZAC service and one of the comments he made was the problem the council was having with the camper vans that did not contain
toilet facilities.
Southland District Council has the most roads in number and length, pay the highest roading rate per individual rate payer, receive the least funding from central Govt, in NZ and now the fuel tax is increasing to pay for Auckland's mess. Southland also has a high number of tourists too.
Now there is talk that the Homer tunnel on the way to Milford needs an upgrade, The Council is concerned that under the present system the locals are expected to fund the majority of the cost, a tunnel that is used probably %99.9 by tourists
Any way this is more political than what this
forum is about so lets leave it there.
As for idiots in fast cars etc, i seem to find them in or near the Cities in Australia too.
The two incidents that resulted in death both occurred in the last month or so and South of the Waitakii.I personally have come round a bend on the Devils Staircase, just after the tightest corner and building up the revs when parked in my lane is a camper van two tourists Japanese at a guess out with the cameras, As luck would have it there was nothing approaching and I managed to swerve round them, There could have been more deaths, there was no way I was going to get pulled up in time.
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