The Star: May 10, 2018
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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> 21<br />
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Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />
Thursday <strong>May</strong> <strong>10</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
Fire rages, homes at risk<br />
Readers respond to city<br />
councillor Aaron Keown’s<br />
comments comparing<br />
Banks Peninsula to<br />
“expensive” Merivale<br />
wives<br />
Steve Thomas – I suggest<br />
Aaron Keown might book in for<br />
a few weeks at Gloriavale. <strong>The</strong>re<br />
will be cows to milk, bees to<br />
feed and fellows who share his<br />
views. Or maybe he should join<br />
the circus and train as a clown?<br />
He has the right stuff. How do<br />
devotees of the absurd become<br />
leaders of community?<br />
bought – “the new BMW looks<br />
good but it was pricey” kind of<br />
comment.<br />
Pete Roberts – So<br />
everybody (including the women<br />
there) has a good laugh, and<br />
even the mayor has a laugh and<br />
can’t bring herself to tell him<br />
to pull his head in because it<br />
was a stupid, offensive thing to<br />
say, and then she basically said<br />
it was okay to say it in another<br />
environment, just not there.<br />
Natasha Layton CCC get<br />
to work we don’t pay you to<br />
“lighten the mood”.<br />
Allie Moreland – I worked<br />
in that business park for a<br />
few years and parking was a<br />
nightmare for staff. I lived across<br />
town with a child to drop off so<br />
didn’t have time to spend waiting<br />
around for a bus to then to get to<br />
work (and bus routes didn’t suit).<br />
If I couldn’t get a park at a reasonable<br />
distance I parked in the<br />
restricted parking and moved<br />
my car every break so I didn’t<br />
break the restrictions. Not sure<br />
what staff of the business park<br />
are meant to do when there’s not<br />
enough parking provided on site<br />
for them?<br />
Helen Neni Dobson – For<br />
goodness sake. Lighten up and<br />
get over yourselves. We have lost<br />
the will to laugh at ourselves. A<br />
sure sign that we are constantly<br />
trying to find someone else to<br />
blame for our shortcomings.<br />
Matt Cuthill – How about<br />
concentrating on fixing the<br />
roads, building a stadium, a<br />
proper metro sports facility,<br />
and getting rid of the eyesores<br />
including the Cathedral?<br />
Angela Bell – Who<br />
cares, I mean get the hell over<br />
yourselves. “Incredibly sexist” is<br />
a woman who has no say in who<br />
she is sold off to in marriage.<br />
John Dunphy – “Merivale<br />
wife – they look really good but<br />
very expensive.” That’s because<br />
they only shop at Ballantynes.<br />
Heather Knox – Wow,<br />
what an appalling, insulting<br />
comment to make about<br />
women. Stereotypical rubbish<br />
and makes the women sound<br />
like possessions that have been<br />
Readers react on <strong>May</strong>or<br />
Lianne Dalziel’s bid to get<br />
Inland Revenue staff to<br />
stop illegally parking in<br />
Russley<br />
Rob Eder – It’s not the staff’s<br />
problem, it should fall back to<br />
the council or developers. When<br />
these business parks are built<br />
there’s never enough parks for<br />
the people who work there. Same<br />
as the one down Cranford St<br />
where there’s cars parked up and<br />
down the road sides. When these<br />
business parks are first build<br />
they should be a requirement to<br />
provide car parks off the street<br />
for the number of people who<br />
work there. If they can’t then<br />
don’t allow them to be built so<br />
big.<br />
Hayley Lyel – Worked at that<br />
business park for a year and was<br />
pregnant with twins with a bad<br />
disc problem in my back. I wasn’t<br />
allowed to park on site so I literally<br />
“waddled” two blocks to get<br />
to work in the end. <strong>The</strong> people to<br />
blame here are the business park<br />
owners who allowed this to be<br />
built without sufficient parking<br />
for staff. I feel for the residents<br />
it must be awful but it was the<br />
worst decision to move a call<br />
centre there with hundreds of<br />
staff plus the other businesses.<br />
Also public transport is amazing,<br />
but if you are the parent who<br />
does pick-up and drop-offs as<br />
well as on call if they are sick and<br />
need to go home from school,<br />
catching two buses to get them<br />
isn’t ideal. •Turn to page 23<br />
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