RUGBY WORLD C****
Well, the rugby world whatever has been and gone and what’s it left us?
Murray McCully, minister for sport,
decided to spend some of the allocated funds on ‘improving the safety of the
passenger transport fleet’.
So he gave it to NZTA (New Zealand
Transport Authority) and they spent it on finding every archaic rule they could
that hadn’t previously been enforced and enforcing them. And of course, the rules remain….. for example –
It’s now definitely treated as illegal
to consume alcohol in any form of passenger service vehicle unless it has a
liquor licence (some limos may, for example).
So if you’re going to a party in a taxi, private charter van, shuttle,
or most buses, and you have one glass of champagne, the owner and/or driver can
be fined a fortune.
For reasons which even NZTA
officers can’t really explain, many people carriers, which had previously been
safely in use as taxis or shuttles, and which are approved world wide for
normal passenger use, cannot be used in New Zealand for commercial passenger
service without having one seat removed, or fixed in a position for least
passenger comfort. (We at Allbays are currently challenging this one. It’s also upsetting the local
representatives of a very large Japanese car manufacturer, renowned for their
reliability…)
And is passenger transport any
safer? We doubt it.
What about the long term economic
effect of the RWC?
Some businesses made a few extra
$. Many report actual losses.
No real infrastructure benefit
beyond some minor stadium improvements.
World tourists exposed to NZ at a
time when it’s looking overpriced (strong $), tacky and greedy.
And it could be argued, the All
Blacks winning got John Key re-elected as PM!
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