Insurance always has higher costs than benefits. The difference is typically just held as profit for the insurer.

Everyone still does it though, because the risks of not doing so are unbearable. In this case - potential loss of life for hundreds - a preventable national tragedy.

Very nice Darren - glad you got on board! I got to ride the temporary southerner during its most recent weekend revival and it took 6h exactly to stop in Dunedin, plus 4m to open the doors. Seems possible to get another hour out of it again. 7h on the Mainlander definitely able to reduce!

Would be great to move the regional railway station to a new site slightly north just next to riccarton road. About a billion busses down there to the city!

Great start!!

I think from memory the 29 City-Airport had contactless gear installed a wee while ago. Though it's not the only line running to the airport anymore so possibly not the one you got on - I've found the 8 more convenient generally.

The last time nz cpi went negative - ie prices actually dropped year on year - was a quarter century ago in 1999.

The time before that was 1946.

Roche's hypothetical doesn't really ever happen.

Here's the annual change in the number of people known to IRD by primary income source. You can see the tqax-paying population is not growing as much now that immigration has cooled. But, also clear, we are a long way from seeing growth in people with work as their primary income source. Grim. [3/3]

Mauger unilaterally foregoing generational funding for local PT infrastructure for an unspecified (but by his own account, much less valuable) favour from the then-transport-minister is an outrageous admission.

It ought to be disqualifying, yet he's seeking another term.

Imagine being so hostile to people to deny them free infrastructure. Vote for mayor's who want to improve their cities I say!