http://www.in-business.co.nz/shabby-city-with-potential/ Your Business Edge Sun, 18 Jul 2010 11:32:00 +1200 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.in-business.co.nz/shabby-city-with-potential/comment-page-1/#comment-4625 Lynchy Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:38:08 +0000 http://www.in-business.co.nz/?p=1092#comment-4625 I talked to one businessowner today who said "I hate going into Wellington" for the same reason. "Free trams" are a great idea, Wellington had trams in the turn of the century - you now, when Bob Jones was a young man - but it seriously would be good to get modern electric trams instead of the 5 000 buses cramming and shunting their way at 1metre/hour down one street in the middle of the city today. Buses could use Featherston instead of Lambton Quay, while the cbd is a free tram zone. Not bad. The only problem is we're sick of the existing infrastructure that doesn't work (see: Transmetro) so there'll be little patience for putting in yet another entirely new infrstructure that'll be mismanged. I talked to one businessowner today who said “I hate going into Wellington” for the same reason. “Free trams” are a great idea, Wellington had trams in the turn of the century – you now, when Bob Jones was a young man – but it seriously would be good to get modern electric trams instead of the 5 000 buses cramming and shunting their way at 1metre/hour down one street in the middle of the city today. Buses could use Featherston instead of Lambton Quay, while the cbd is a free tram zone. Not bad. The only problem is we’re sick of the existing infrastructure that doesn’t work (see: Transmetro) so there’ll be little patience for putting in yet another entirely new infrstructure that’ll be mismanged.

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