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patting themselves on the back over the reveal of the new Māori name for a business unit in the department.
Why does land transport NZTA, call themselves Canoe One? Maybe if you forget your warrant of fitness you could claim it is a canoe (waka) and that it doesn't apply and doesn't need one.
RollyShed:
patting themselves on the back over the reveal of the new Māori name for a business unit in the department.
Why does land transport NZTA, call themselves Canoe One? Maybe if you forget your warrant of fitness you could claim it is a canoe (waka) and that it doesn't apply and doesn't need one.
https://www.nzta.govt.nz/about-us/about-waka-kotahi-nz-transport-agency/using-our-logo/
Our name is Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency.
‘Waka’ means ‘vessel’ and ‘kotahi’ means ‘one’ so our Māori name conveys the concept of ‘travelling together as one’ and embraces integration, affordability, safety, responsiveness and sustainability.
What's in a name?
Look at Zespri - a name deliberately chosen because it means nothing in any language.
Most of the posters in this thread are just like chimpanzees on MDMA, full of feelings of bonhomie, joy, and optimism. Fred99 8/4/21
elpenguino:
What's in a name?
Exactly, see below:
"Holeproof"
Golden Circle's "SARS"
"SkyTV" when you're technically using space
elpenguino:
https://www.nzta.govt.nz/about-us/about-waka-kotahi-nz-transport-agency/using-our-logo/
Our name is Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency.
‘Waka’ means ‘vessel’ and ‘kotahi’ means ‘one’ so our Māori name conveys the concept of ‘travelling together as one’ and embraces integration, affordability, safety, responsiveness and sustainability.
@RollyShed in this instance, kotahi means united as one - as in we're all in this together.
elpenguino:
‘Waka’ means ‘vessel’ and ‘kotahi’ means ‘one’ so our Māori name conveys the concept of ‘travelling together as one’ and embraces integration, affordability, safety, responsiveness and sustainability.
i.e. in bus or boat - facilitated by speed limits so slow, and traffic lights opulently lathered across the city with phasing so counter-intuitive and free-left-turns so increasing scarce that driving drives you to tears and, only old ladies obey the speed limit and stop for red lights.
RunningMan:elpenguino:https://www.nzta.govt.nz/about-us/about-waka-kotahi-nz-transport-agency/using-our-logo/
Our name is Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency.
‘Waka’ means ‘vessel’ and ‘kotahi’ means ‘one’ so our Māori name conveys the concept of ‘travelling together as one’ and embraces integration, affordability, safety, responsiveness and sustainability.
@RollyShed in this instance, kotahi means united as one - as in we're all in this together.
Schooling myself up on the road code again, as I'm going for my class 2 learners at some stage in the near future.
Some rules I really don't understand the reasoning behind, for example, such as what to do if broken down on a motorway. I've highlighted the ones which contradict each other. The only reason I'd get out of a car on the motorway would be to stand off the road, completely clear of the vehicle. I wouldn't be mucking around with lifting the boot & bonnet, or trying to hang something from the vehicle!
I would turn on the hazards, get out the passenger side and lift the bonnet to try to find the fault, if engine related.
Changing a driver side tyre is not fun on a motorway with limited pull off width.
elpenguino:Our name is Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency.
‘Waka’ means ‘vessel’ and ‘kotahi’ means ‘one’ so our Māori name conveys the concept of ‘travelling together as one’ and embraces integration, affordability, safety, responsiveness and sustainability.
If you need to send people to a web site just to figure out what your name or logo means, you've failed.
This is at a rural train station, to the left is a fenced-off enclosed area where passengers wait, to the right are the train tracks. The closest you can get a car to this is about 10-15m away.
That's the queue to get in, it's even more crowded inside, and 99% aren't wearing masks. You're allowed to trade at an international travel nexus, which this train station counts as, along with two others. Nothing else is open, which works out to one of these serving every 650,000 people.
Bung: 650,000 people or just the tourists?
Seemed to be mostly locals. The tourists will be in hotels and eating out, not buying fresh vegetables, milk, and bread.
neb: Idiotic trading laws in some European countries, which are fairly similar to what NZ had in the 1950s. This is what happens when you have a ratio of one mini-supermarket, equivalent to a New World Metro, per 650,000 inhabitants of a city (and that's not a typo):That's the queue to get in, it's even more crowded inside, and 99% aren't wearing masks. You're allowed to trade at an international travel nexus, which this train station counts as, along with two others. Nothing else is open, which works out to one of these serving every 650,000 people.
The 95% of people who are somewhat organised will have plenty of food at home and not need to shop every single day of the week... You get used to it, and it allows everyone to have a break.
Edit: looks like Austria.
neb:elpenguino:If you need to send people to a web site just to figure out what your name or logo means, you've failed.
Our name is Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency.
‘Waka’ means ‘vessel’ and ‘kotahi’ means ‘one’ so our Māori name conveys the concept of ‘travelling together as one’ and embraces integration, affordability, safety, responsiveness and sustainability.
Alternatively, it could be viewed as an oppurtunity to learn just two words of one of our other official languages - go on, give it a go.
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