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#3049463 13-Mar-2023 09:35

johno1234:

They can do on the right kind of street. There others where it just seems to encourage people to slam on their brakes and then gun their engine until the next brake slam. At least the modern long flat speed bumps are pleasant enough to drive over at the intended speed. The old fashioned little sharp ones break your suspension and put you into the head lining at anything over about 5kph.

Where by "old fashioned" you mean the ones that my local council started installing all over the place a couple of years ago...

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#3049466 13-Mar-2023 10:02

Judder bars should be made of the Non-Newtonian fluid like they've trialled overseas. They work and they are effective. No hindrance at the right speed and a wheel-breaker at the wrong speed. Exactly what you need to slow traffic down.

As for pedestrian crossings just at the exit of a roundabout or as has been mentioned - pedestrian crossings that aren't zebra crossings or controlled crossing, but merely a raised walkway across the road - what are the road planners thinking?

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#3049474 13-Mar-2023 10:15

Handsomedan:...what are the road planners thinking?

They think?

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#3049475 13-Mar-2023 10:21

msukiwi:

Handsomedan:...what are the road planners thinking?

They think?

They think about making it worse to drive places to achieve some stupid target that someone has made up.

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#3049489 13-Mar-2023 11:15

My son's intermediate still cannot tell us if they are striking on Thursday. I have nothing against them deciding to strike, it's their right, but giving parents some lead time to make arrangements should be a fairly high priority.

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#3049537 13-Mar-2023 12:39

duckDecoy:

My son's intermediate still cannot tell us if they are striking on Thursday. I have nothing against them deciding to strike, it's their right, but giving parents some lead time to make arrangements should be a fairly high priority.

Why ?

The whole point of striking is to cause as much disruption as they can to make a point.

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#3049554 13-Mar-2023 12:56

sir1963:

duckDecoy:

My son's intermediate still cannot tell us if they are striking on Thursday. I have nothing against them deciding to strike, it's their right, but giving parents some lead time to make arrangements should be a fairly high priority.

Why ?

The whole point of striking is to cause as much disruption as they can to make a point.

Is that what you think they are doing? Trying to deliberately cause parents difficulty?

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#3049559 13-Mar-2023 13:16

duckDecoy:

Is that what you think they are doing? Trying to deliberately cause parents difficulty?

Yes, because the teachers will point the blame at the government.

Its no different to hospital strikes, the patients and their families get greatly inconvenienced and significant public pressure gets put onto the government, especially in an election year.

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#3049568 13-Mar-2023 13:35

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Why ?

The whole point of striking is to cause as much disruption as they can to make a point.

No, that's not the whole point of striking. The point of striking is to disrupt the operations of an employer in order to force negotiation. General strikes, designed to cause as much disruption as possible to force political pressure, are to the best of my knowledge not legal.

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#3049601 13-Mar-2023 14:05

Just noticed, PBTech add GST to their credit card surcharge. I've not noticed any other retailer doing this before, but, maybe they do ?

It isn't much on individual sales, but, for them it probably aggregates to a reasonable amount at the end of the year.

[edit] GST does apply to CC surcharge, so all good.

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#3049650 13-Mar-2023 16:14

sir1963:

duckDecoy:

Is that what you think they are doing? Trying to deliberately cause parents difficulty?

Yes, because the teachers will point the blame at the government.

Its no different to hospital strikes, the patients and their families get greatly inconvenienced and significant public pressure gets put onto the government, especially in an election year.

While they will both inconvenience patients and parents alike, I seem to recall that the strikes were notified in advance to allow planning. That's the aspect that is annoying me, the school is specifically telling me they cannot yet tell us if they will be striking or not.

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#3049652 13-Mar-2023 16:17

duckDecoy:

While they will both inconvenience patients and parents alike, I seem to recall that the strikes were notified in advance to allow planning. That's the aspect that is annoying me, the school is specifically telling me they cannot yet tell us if they will be striking or not.

You can go on strike with a hours notice or even less IIRC.

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#3049658 13-Mar-2023 16:36

Kyanar:

sir1963:

Why ?

The whole point of striking is to cause as much disruption as they can to make a point.

No, that's not the whole point of striking. The point of striking is to disrupt the operations of an employer in order to force negotiation. General strikes, designed to cause as much disruption as possible to force political pressure, are to the best of my knowledge not legal.

I don't see the distinction when the employer is the government.

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#3049660 13-Mar-2023 16:40

frankv:

Kyanar:

No, that's not the whole point of striking. The point of striking is to disrupt the operations of an employer in order to force negotiation. General strikes, designed to cause as much disruption as possible to force political pressure, are to the best of my knowledge not legal.

I don't see the distinction when the employer is the government.

And further, an employer might suffer financial, operational and logistical costs due to a strike whereas there are none with a teacher's strike. The inconvenience is 100% on the parents and the loss of education is 100% on the students.

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#3049678 13-Mar-2023 17:53

Son's car got towed from AT Park n Ride.

He was parked in what looked like a small car spot - i.e. a car parking space for a small car. It had a single yellow line at the gutter (at the head of the space, which he couldn't clearly see when parking).

We finally got through to AT who confirmed it was towed and we got it from the tow yard.

Nowhere was there signage stating that he could be towed. Neither was there any information about where any towed vehicles may end up.

When picking up the car, we weren't required to pay immediately, but were given the infringement notice. ON that, it's pay up or take us to court. If you dispute it, you are asking for a court date. THat's it. two choices - pay or pay more.

Ridiculous.

Lesson learned for a young man with limited income. It's especially painful as he only went to the park n ride as the feeder buses from our house were all cancelled.

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