Thread: Required to justify the number of firearms you own?

Originally Posted by Russian 22.

lol LFO are not a hive mind. I'd personally love decent light rail at an affordable price with decent times and efficiency.

A bit off topic but .....

Our biggest issue with commuter transport, especially here in Chch is population density. Auckland is in a similar position but being a denser population has some advantages.

Rail works when you have larger numbers of people in one place who transport to another place regularly. Chch has a buggered central city so most people work everywhere else and live elsewhere...so we are not all at the same starting point and are not all going to the same place. As for efficiency, I used to live 25km from where I worked. If I cycle to work, it took me just over an hour on the pushbike, If I took the motorbike it took about 35 minutes, (Car was fractionally longer) If I caught the bus it took me 1 hour 15 minutes...AND the bus stopped right outside work at about the same time as I finished. IE If I biked home I would be leaving at almost the same time as the bus....... In other words for a distance of 25km I was able to match the bus for speed with a bicycle. I could understand this if the distances were different, but both are almost the same route and mostly a straight line to Woodend....The first few Ks I stayed off the main roads and would reach the junction with the bus route about the same time as the bus....From there I would pretty much take the bus route....It would pass me on the road then I would pass him at the next stop etc...

If Chch had a larger population then public transport would start to make sense. I heard one councillor state "it worked in big cities over seas so why wont it work here? " I do not think she understood or realised what city means overseas. She used the trains in New York as an example. For NY they have 16 times Chch population (8.4m) which is 1.6 times the NZ population living in an area HALF the size of Chch. So for every property in Chch that houses a family of 5, that same land space would have to contain 80 people. Ever block in the city that had 20 houses on it with about 4 or 5 people in each that houses about 90 people would need to home nearly 1500 people. They say there is a McDonalds every 100m in these cities...what they don't tell you is there are enough people living within 50 metres of that building to make that a viable business model....