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Truckies, please strike more often
Jul. 4th, 2008 08:28 amBeautiful, traffic-free trip into work this morning. Buses and bicycles were almost outnumbering cars along Great North Road. I arrived 10 minutes early. If this is what the world will be like after peak oil, then frankly I can see an upside.
Seriously - the fools have just given Aucklanders a taste of what this city could be like if everyone wasn't in their cars all the time. (A workmate just said "It would be like Wellington", but sadly many Aucklanders have a rose-tinted view of traffic in the capital - there is a rush hour, motorway madness and traffic jams there too.) Perhaps we could push for traffic to be barred from the CBD altogether.
More to the point - you'll note that under the anti-union laws, if (say) nurses or McDonalds workers or plumbers tried to do what the truckies are doing, they would be liable to have their houses seized. How come truck drivers get to have a political strike and the rest of us don't?
Seriously - the fools have just given Aucklanders a taste of what this city could be like if everyone wasn't in their cars all the time. (A workmate just said "It would be like Wellington", but sadly many Aucklanders have a rose-tinted view of traffic in the capital - there is a rush hour, motorway madness and traffic jams there too.) Perhaps we could push for traffic to be barred from the CBD altogether.
More to the point - you'll note that under the anti-union laws, if (say) nurses or McDonalds workers or plumbers tried to do what the truckies are doing, they would be liable to have their houses seized. How come truck drivers get to have a political strike and the rest of us don't?