Friday 17 September 2010
The ballot papers are rolling into the letter boxes. There are 24 days until ‘D’ day decision day on 09th October.
The day was a busy one. Sarah and I started by waving at cars in Pt Chev, at St Lukes and then in Mt Albert. In fact, we’ve been saluting at cars and drivers for almost three weeks. Sarah and I estimated that at Pt Chev we would have 200 cars pass us in a four-way light exchange. In a one hour evening session, there would be about 1600 cars. That’s a lot of vehicles. What we also noticed were a whole lot of single passenger rides. C&R advocates for people out of cars and into public transport.We need a more connected transport system that can get workers from one end of Auckland to the other with minimum fuss as possible. More importantly we need to do this as cheaply and as safely as possible. But this means Local Boards must work as a strong united team to champion the needs and wants of the community.
Transportation will be under a Council Controlled Organisation. It 
will be the responsibility of the Local Boards to control the CCO’s and make them accountable to the people. They must listen to us the people not the other way around. The Local Board needs to be decisive and focussed come 01 November and hit the ground 
running. That’s why I do not buy into what incumbents and the ‘experienced’ ‘old-hands’ at council are saying, that ‘….no one will know what is expected and how it will work’. That kind of talk comes from those bogged down in bureaucracy. That kind of talk comes from ‘thinkers-of-a-tired-way’. The new Auckland City must have proactive, forward thinking can-do, will-do individuals who can work as a team to ensure best results for the community. That team is C&R Owairaka. The voting papers are out. Let’s make this region succeed. Vote C&R.
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