Great to hear the discussion about the avondale southdown line. Its underated as a passenger line as it makes an isthnus circle line, where services can run out of britomart along the eastern line to glen innes, then go along the Avondale-southdown, then turns back up the inner western line at avondale to the city again and then back out onto the eastern line. Many large cities around the world have rail systems based on a circle line then radial lines intersecting at key points. Auckland has a circle line 70% built already and the other 30% already owned and designated.
This was great to watch! Less emotion and more rational financial decisions please! I like the way Mayor Brown speaks- he calls a spade a spade and he is easy to follow. I can’t stand when people speak using the latest buzzwords from Wellington policy makers. Just speak plainly and clearly. Glad to have Mayor Brown! Thanks for doing what you do and for putting up with Auckland Council.
An office being converted into apartments needs more fire rating because apartments have more combustible materials and activities. Offices typically use fewer flammable items and have minimalist setups, whereas apartments are filled with personal belongings and cooking appliances, increasing fire risk. Also, evacuating from apartments can be more chaotic compared to the orderly drills in offices. Therefore, the increased fire protection ensures better safety for residents. Also, we provide fire protection for buildings, so don’t mess up our gig! 😄
we do need to protect our highly productive soil once its gone we never get it back,and last i checked no one can live without food,and the less there is the more expensive it becomes.
This is true re good soil being irreplaceable. however some of the areas you see marked as protected prime soil, eg between waimauku and helensville, down the kaipara river, it's mostly used for growing silage, which whilst important for the meat industry, it's not exactly a high value land use. My point is not that we shouldn't consider protecting valuable soils, but rather that there may not be a market for the amount of food that could be produced on the amount of protected land. Eg perishable veggies, they're simply not going to get exported long distance. So what's the use of the land if, and im guessing here, but what if there's 10 times as much soil as what we need to saturate the local market and limited availabile export markets? We clearly need enough good soil for veggies etc, but also the country could produce much more produce via large, high intensity cropping in greenhouses. In these structures the soil is often irrelevant as you're using hydroponics. More helpful would be siting big greenhouses like that next to geothermal power, for heat exchange - eg down at taupo - since a large part of the running cost of a greenhouse is heating during winter I'm just being devil's advocate really, but the analysis needs to be a bit more in depth than 'dont build city on good soil', since all cities are on good soil - that's why they develop there in the first place... Thinking about this, a good way to look at that more analytically would be to ask, how much of the area we have marked as a high value soil is actively being cultivated at present? This would give a sense of amount of slack/oversupply that currently exists in this land type. My guess is that theres a lot of spare capacity, but I'm just some nerd on the internet
if we want to grow the population , it is crucial to intensify ! Bombay soils are some of the most productive for food growing in the country. Imagine building housing suburbs on that !
Yeah it's ridiculous to think that. By grow the pop, you mean more kiwis having more kids right? Or strictly filtering immigration to nz right? Only allowing those who will meaningfully contribute to nz and not send our money to their home overseas. We don't want what's happening in uk
Right on Mayor Brown re different charges for trucks in and out of the port 👍 I used to travel into Parnell for work and know first hand the absolute shambles they cause to traffic flow. I always said on those commutes that port trucks should not be allowed on auckland central roads between the hours of 7am-9.30am and again 4pm-6.30pm. If you can't ban them during certain hours I think an incentive for outside those hours (middle of the night would be optimal) would work wonders to get Auckland moving more freely at those peak times.
Great discussion!! I've just returned from Italy and was amazed that in the 30 years since I was last there, the infrastructure improvements are incredible. The tunnels being only one aspect. I read somewhere that the technologies available today, particularly within that area of the world, make for more efficient and less-risky projects. We need engineering and planning solve problems, not create them. Well done!!!
Great vid. Didn’t vote for you but am definitely a fan now. Only thing I’d say is that if we did cycling infrastructure in an economically rational way, you would get some of the best bang for buck out there. Stop doing insane stuff like Avondale new Lynn pathway and just put in Tim tams on our extremely wide roads
Great conversation guys. I voted for you first time, and feel that youre doing things right so far (for the first time that we have a capable mayor). We need people with real world experience running this country, people who know how things actually get done rather than shallow policians who are just good at pr. I hated how the media savaged you over the floods. They obviously just go at people that arent media friendly. im sure most rational people can see it was a system failure not your personal failure, having just started the role My favourite points: time of use charging for the highway, specifically to drive freight into the night time slot Also that assets arent assets if they dont make money, and that freight rail is probably the biggest roi investment nz could make. Wayne, i agree you do have balls to be honest with people - refreshing, imo youre like politicians used to be, when real world experience was a pre-requisite!
finally talk about a train from west to south! why do we always have to go to the city first...waste if time. hopefully they eventually realise that advertising around AT assets can derive enough revenue to make trains free to ride.
During the 1950s and 1960s, National failed to build a rail track to Howick to Otahuhu to the city . Orewa to Takapuna with tunnel to city along with track to Henderson area. They had 28 years to build these things over the period 1950 to 1975.
This was excellent, I did not vote for Mayor Brown and I don’t agree with a lot of his opinions or actions but I really enjoyed hearing some more in-depth thoughts about our city and I thought he spoke very well.
I agree alot with what you're discussing, though the quote spoken a few times "Better, Faster, Cheaper" seldomly exsists Wayne. In video production, we call that "Time, Cost & Quality". Everyone wants great quality for a low cost, so time is always the required commodity. "Faster" is where the problems arise, I love your take charge attitude, my hope is that you are patient enough to allow quality to be the winner on the day. Keep up that great work, hope to work with you again soon.
Avondale-Southdown has the potential to resolve the issue of too many isthmus buses on symonds and customs by creating a transfer to avondale. great to see the common sense
i think a way to get every citizen to buy in is to introduce some kind of Dividend back to the people,through these changes and the investment fund going forward.
Yes! 800,000 people in 10 years! This is why schools are short of classrooms, hospitals, and houses . If those 800,000 had not come to live here, would there be a lot of shortage?
Wayne I would like for you to get somebody in the council to look into price gouging by IQP inspectors and also the streamlining the building WOF process. Thanks
What s great idea to talk to the Mayor directly. So, from where Soudis are getting the money? Are they diversifying on the account of their culture? We are today on the stage of trying to figure out on what ground Soudis are having more money than Europe on basis of OIL and that is why it would matter to pay attention to context as our lives are engaged in larger train or Metro perspective to what human life is the passenger. Yet, that is what makes some lands GREATER than others. So, context should always matter. If one is in position to make choices these choices should not be made in wrong ways. For example providing to Macca estate rights to build the muslim style buildings with narrow access corridors cannot be accepted by Europian standards. By the way, is your Wellington under Muslim spell by any chance? I am Orthodox Europian and I have been long term unemployed in your country although having two universities, one of marketing from home land Macedonia (I am Serbo-Macedonian) and the other in accounting from Massey, Auckland. And my biggest advice to you would be allow Europian investments and start employing Europeans please. They will also engage your truck drivers on better terms than being next to outlaws. I also have noticed your Muslim based value system. Muslims are not city builders exactly, naither they are good in culture building. Best regards,
is there any work going into increasing what we can actually recycle and products that could be created from this waste?Love to see what has being done with the food waste bins.
Okay after listening to you guys talk, I can see what the problem is your'e describing and that it's a governance issue or the inability for central, regional and local government, including the public and private sector to scale policies or the rules that govern the behaviour of people or businesses within New Zealand. It sounds to me like "we" need a forum a global cooperative one that enables people or businesses to self-organize with one another at scale. So that the humble corner diary owner, solo mum of two kids or the energy company can now self-organize with one another around a common policy or rule that helps them determine the behaviour of housing, food, education, energy, healthcare and so on within our country, community, region and so on. A tool (i.e. website) that enables all New Zealanders (5 million people and however many businesses) to enter into a political relationship with one another and to take responsibility for the managing of policies or rules for all of our human and non-human (e.g. IoT, AI, etc) services. And that doesn't mean that every policy is made public, by no means, there can still be private policies for example a person who has a healthcare policy for cancer. It just means that now people or business have the capability to be invited into that policy to help them manage it. No longer will there be apparently separate policy makers, but every New Zealand can have access to the policy layer or be an equal when it comes to creating or customising policies for the sake of themselves or all other New Zealanders. As the people in Africa once said, it takes a village to raise a child. Well clearly New Zealand is not behaving like a village, but a bunch of individuals or apparently separate entities or tribes struggling to get along with one another or manage the welfare of that child or resource. Clearly this is not working and what I'm hearing you guys alluding too. Jai Adi Da!
No one should be allowed to run for office in local government or central government unless they have successfully managed a medium to large existing business Or Started and run a successful small business for a minimum five year period
Set up a Swat team of 7 (7 so there's never a tie!) 3 x experienced engineers 1 x finance specialist 1 x accountant 1 x planner 1 x lawyer Not big firms...smart, commercially savvy, on the coal face individuals! Every business case over $4M needs to be debated and pre approved via this panel....Quick fire style.....meet once a week. Vanity projects will drop off, common-sense will prevail and some Karen's will get their knickers in a twist. Make Auckland great again! Mayor Brown...let me know when you are free for a coffee?
Wow i dont live in auck im from horowhenua you shouldcome down one day close to sea and close to mountains and laid back living ps apart from little joke about horownenua i love practical thinking and solutions theres alot to be said for common sence and reality compared to fantasy
He just told you he has lost 375 million dollars and you reply with - I like that you are pragmatic? Where did you get your economist education from the back of a weetbix packet?
He needs to be more like Trump and just do it, fire people and let them come back with thier legal crap and do the run around. Just lead Wayne and the people will support you. fire Anyone you want ignore Wellington, just go crazy
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Great to hear the discussion about the avondale southdown line. Its underated as a passenger line as it makes an isthnus circle line, where services can run out of britomart along the eastern line to glen innes, then go along the Avondale-southdown, then turns back up the inner western line at avondale to the city again and then back out onto the eastern line.
Many large cities around the world have rail systems based on a circle line then radial lines intersecting at key points. Auckland has a circle line 70% built already and the other 30% already owned and designated.
I was a doubter before you were elected but bloody loving the common sense stuff. Charge proper parking fines, charge trucks, run buses with priority.
"Roads of national party significance" 😅
Great Mayor straight talking Kiwi no muck around n One of Aotearoa great Economists we have listened to his clear Economics for years
This was great to watch! Less emotion and more rational financial decisions please! I like the way Mayor Brown speaks- he calls a spade a spade and he is easy to follow. I can’t stand when people speak using the latest buzzwords from Wellington policy makers. Just speak plainly and clearly. Glad to have Mayor Brown! Thanks for doing what you do and for putting up with Auckland Council.
An office being converted into apartments needs more fire rating because apartments have more combustible materials and activities. Offices typically use fewer flammable items and have minimalist setups, whereas apartments are filled with personal belongings and cooking appliances, increasing fire risk. Also, evacuating from apartments can be more chaotic compared to the orderly drills in offices.
Therefore, the increased fire protection ensures better safety for residents.
Also, we provide fire protection for buildings, so don’t mess up our gig! 😄
we do need to protect our highly productive soil once its gone we never get it back,and last i checked no one can live without food,and the less there is the more expensive it becomes.
Thanks Bradley, couldn't agree more 👍
This is true re good soil being irreplaceable. however some of the areas you see marked as protected prime soil, eg between waimauku and helensville, down the kaipara river, it's mostly used for growing silage, which whilst important for the meat industry, it's not exactly a high value land use.
My point is not that we shouldn't consider protecting valuable soils, but rather that there may not be a market for the amount of food that could be produced on the amount of protected land. Eg perishable veggies, they're simply not going to get exported long distance. So what's the use of the land if, and im guessing here, but what if there's 10 times as much soil as what we need to saturate the local market and limited availabile export markets?
We clearly need enough good soil for veggies etc, but also the country could produce much more produce via large, high intensity cropping in greenhouses. In these structures the soil is often irrelevant as you're using hydroponics. More helpful would be siting big greenhouses like that next to geothermal power, for heat exchange - eg down at taupo - since a large part of the running cost of a greenhouse is heating during winter
I'm just being devil's advocate really, but the analysis needs to be a bit more in depth than 'dont build city on good soil', since all cities are on good soil - that's why they develop there in the first place... Thinking about this, a good way to look at that more analytically would be to ask, how much of the area we have marked as a high value soil is actively being cultivated at present? This would give a sense of amount of slack/oversupply that currently exists in this land type. My guess is that theres a lot of spare capacity, but I'm just some nerd on the internet
Ive heard its not longer highly productive
if we want to grow the population , it is crucial to intensify ! Bombay soils are some of the most productive for food growing in the country. Imagine building housing suburbs on that !
Yeah it's ridiculous to think that. By grow the pop, you mean more kiwis having more kids right? Or strictly filtering immigration to nz right? Only allowing those who will meaningfully contribute to nz and not send our money to their home overseas. We don't want what's happening in uk
Right on Mayor Brown re different charges for trucks in and out of the port 👍 I used to travel into Parnell for work and know first hand the absolute shambles they cause to traffic flow. I always said on those commutes that port trucks should not be allowed on auckland central roads between the hours of 7am-9.30am and again 4pm-6.30pm. If you can't ban them during certain hours I think an incentive for outside those hours (middle of the night would be optimal) would work wonders to get Auckland moving more freely at those peak times.
This was kinda refreshing to listen to, thank you. Gives me hope for our city to be run better soon!
Great discussion!! I've just returned from Italy and was amazed that in the 30 years since I was last there, the infrastructure improvements are incredible. The tunnels being only one aspect. I read somewhere that the technologies available today, particularly within that area of the world, make for more efficient and less-risky projects. We need engineering and planning solve problems, not create them. Well done!!!
Great vid. Didn’t vote for you but am definitely a fan now. Only thing I’d say is that if we did cycling infrastructure in an economically rational way, you would get some of the best bang for buck out there. Stop doing insane stuff like Avondale new Lynn pathway and just put in Tim tams on our extremely wide roads
Great conversation guys. I voted for you first time, and feel that youre doing things right so far (for the first time that we have a capable mayor). We need people with real world experience running this country, people who know how things actually get done rather than shallow policians who are just good at pr.
I hated how the media savaged you over the floods. They obviously just go at people that arent media friendly. im sure most rational people can see it was a system failure not your personal failure, having just started the role
My favourite points: time of use charging for the highway, specifically to drive freight into the night time slot
Also that assets arent assets if they dont make money, and that freight rail is probably the biggest roi investment nz could make.
Wayne, i agree you do have balls to be honest with people - refreshing, imo youre like politicians used to be, when real world experience was a pre-requisite!
finally talk about a train from west to south! why do we always have to go to the city first...waste if time.
hopefully they eventually realise that advertising around AT assets can derive enough revenue to make trains free to ride.
🗣🗣🗣"I'm a businessman and this is a business center, lets do business things here." 🗣🗣🗣
Absolutely
During the 1950s and 1960s, National failed to build a rail track to Howick to Otahuhu to the city . Orewa to Takapuna with tunnel to city along with track to Henderson area. They had 28 years to build these things over the period 1950 to 1975.
Imagine Auckland with rail between the ports and all major industrial areas, as well as better passenger rail & tram network.
Have existing rail infrastructure across the country. Why don’t we still use it??
This was excellent, I did not vote for Mayor Brown and I don’t agree with a lot of his opinions or actions but I really enjoyed hearing some more in-depth thoughts about our city and I thought he spoke very well.
Honestly worth my vote 🎉
If you get freight rail making a profit, you maybe able to drop the price for passenger fairs.
That is how the cost to fly overseas works.
I agree alot with what you're discussing, though the quote spoken a few times "Better, Faster, Cheaper" seldomly exsists Wayne. In video production, we call that "Time, Cost & Quality". Everyone wants great quality for a low cost, so time is always the required commodity. "Faster" is where the problems arise, I love your take charge attitude, my hope is that you are patient enough to allow quality to be the winner on the day. Keep up that great work, hope to work with you again soon.
I am pleased to see the $50 max for public transport in the city.
Avondale-Southdown has the potential to resolve the issue of too many isthmus buses on symonds and customs by creating a transfer to avondale. great to see the common sense
Awesome channel recommendation
Mostly sensible...good discussion
Amen. Im sick and tired of politicians in Wellington trying to win votes
i think a way to get every citizen to buy in is to introduce some kind of Dividend back to the people,through these changes and the investment fund going forward.
Encourage flexible work hours and work from home helps congestion.
Auckland regional fuel tax was good as it was just for Auckland. The fuel tax should be regional all around the country.
What the lip will take us to? Any measurable Performance indicators? E.g travel time from Albany to CBd
Yes! 800,000 people in 10 years! This is why schools are short of classrooms, hospitals, and houses . If those 800,000 had not come to live here, would there be a lot of shortage?
Definitely put that rail in to South and Avondale - I’m sick of freight trucks on the roads!
Interesting. Can't see me voting for anyone else next time around. That's if he stands.
We need you in wellington. I would pay twice the rates for commonsense local decision making
Need a national transportation plan
Wayne
I would like for you to get somebody in the council to look into price gouging by IQP inspectors and also the streamlining the building WOF process. Thanks
What s great idea to talk to the Mayor directly. So, from where Soudis are getting the money? Are they diversifying on the account of their culture? We are today on the stage of trying to figure out on what ground Soudis are having more money than Europe on basis of OIL and that is why it would matter to pay attention to context as our lives are engaged in larger train or Metro perspective to what human life is the passenger. Yet, that is what makes some lands GREATER than others. So, context should always matter. If one is in position to make choices these choices should not be made in wrong ways. For example providing to Macca estate rights to build the muslim style buildings with narrow access corridors cannot be accepted by Europian standards. By the way, is your Wellington under Muslim spell by any chance? I am Orthodox Europian and I have been long term unemployed in your country although having two universities, one of marketing from home land Macedonia (I am Serbo-Macedonian) and the other in accounting from Massey, Auckland. And my biggest advice to you would be allow Europian investments and start employing Europeans please. They will also engage your truck drivers on better terms than being next to outlaws. I also have noticed your Muslim based value system. Muslims are not city builders exactly, naither they are good in culture building. Best regards,
Watercare has always been a good local body.
is there any work going into increasing what we can actually recycle and products that could be created from this waste?Love to see what has being done with the food waste bins.
If the rail makes sense for Auckland and Northport why does council, Northport and ports of Auckland not start laying it?
Okay after listening to you guys talk, I can see what the problem is your'e describing and that it's a governance issue or the inability for central, regional and local government, including the public and private sector to scale policies or the rules that govern the behaviour of people or businesses within New Zealand.
It sounds to me like "we" need a forum a global cooperative one that enables people or businesses to self-organize with one another at scale. So that the humble corner diary owner, solo mum of two kids or the energy company can now self-organize with one another around a common policy or rule that helps them determine the behaviour of housing, food, education, energy, healthcare and so on within our country, community, region and so on.
A tool (i.e. website) that enables all New Zealanders (5 million people and however many businesses) to enter into a political relationship with one another and to take responsibility for the managing of policies or rules for all of our human and non-human (e.g. IoT, AI, etc) services. And that doesn't mean that every policy is made public, by no means, there can still be private policies for example a person who has a healthcare policy for cancer. It just means that now people or business have the capability to be invited into that policy to help them manage it.
No longer will there be apparently separate policy makers, but every New Zealand can have access to the policy layer or be an equal when it comes to creating or customising policies for the sake of themselves or all other New Zealanders.
As the people in Africa once said, it takes a village to raise a child. Well clearly New Zealand is not behaving like a village, but a bunch of individuals or apparently separate entities or tribes struggling to get along with one another or manage the welfare of that child or resource. Clearly this is not working and what I'm hearing you guys alluding too.
Jai Adi Da!
No one should be allowed to run for office in local government or central government unless they have successfully managed a medium to large existing business
Or
Started and run a successful small business for a minimum five year period
Avondale to Onehunga! National has not done it since 1949. This was planned by Labour.
😮
Set up a Swat team of 7 (7 so there's never a tie!)
3 x experienced engineers
1 x finance specialist
1 x accountant
1 x planner
1 x lawyer
Not big firms...smart, commercially savvy, on the coal face individuals! Every business case over $4M needs to be debated and pre approved via this panel....Quick fire style.....meet once a week.
Vanity projects will drop off, common-sense will prevail and some Karen's will get their knickers in a twist.
Make Auckland great again! Mayor Brown...let me know when you are free for a coffee?
That's actually a brilliant idea
@@vanhanothai4090 Engineers mate.....all about practicality...lol.
Wow i dont live in auck im from horowhenua you shouldcome down one day close to sea and close to mountains and laid back living ps apart from little joke about horownenua i love practical thinking and solutions theres alot to be said for common sence and reality compared to fantasy
Shamubeel needs to go to the barber and ask for a fade.
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funny how he never names the national party! since they are the problem to all his issues today in auckland. LOL "more roads" HA
He just told you he has lost 375 million dollars and you reply with - I like that you are pragmatic?
Where did you get your economist education from the back of a weetbix packet?
You missed the part where I mentioned I inherited a $375 million loss. I didn't make this mess, I walked into this mess and now have to clean it up.
Touché I switched right off in the first minute and didn’t bother to watch the rest after his opening comment…
@@rkara2hardly even a touche, you embarassed yourself by not watching the whole thing
He needs to be more like Trump and just do it, fire people and let them come back with thier legal crap and do the run around. Just lead Wayne and the people will support you. fire Anyone you want ignore Wellington, just go crazy
Dear Sir, Hope you are well, I want to talk about your TH-cam channel. Your content quality is amazing and the thumbnail is so attractive but I analyse that (why are you not getting many views, likes, comments, and subscribers in the channel). As a professional Digital Marketer & TH-cam Specialist ensure that if you focus on SEO (search engine optimization) section work and video promotion work. You know, SEO for video, top rank on TH-cam by high volume keywords. Video promotion means your every video promotion on all social media sites like Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Reddit, etc. Hopefully you understand. NOTE: I already marked your all channel issues, If you want I can send you? If you know more about this chat with us. Thanks for giving your valuable time.