Power changes hands in the unseen world

I don't know who twisted whose arm, but this is gobsmackingly good news. It will mean, among many other benefits, that Auckland's revolutionary HQ in Onehunga will be directly beside a major rail line. Talk about making foresighted purchasing decisions. Now will those teases please hurry up and confirm an electrification timetable? Because diesel trains running right outside the centre will be too noisy and smelly.

(Is Welly on the other end of the karmic seesaw, though? What's this crap I keep hearing about turning the J'ville line into a busway, when in Auckland we're trying to twist their arms to turn the North Shore busway into a tramline?)

In other news, perhaps it makes me feel a bit better that the second-greatest keyboardist in New Zealand history can't get an audience either. (First greatest is of course Eddie Rayner from Split Enz. I myself come in at somewhere like #3. ;-)