Transit New Zealand signs MOU with Auckland City Council on V8 car race

“The MoU Transit has signed today with the Auckland City Council allows us to tell V8 car race consent commissioners that if the race proceeds traffic effects can be managed,” says Transit chief executive Rick van Barneveld.

“Is not possible to have traffic management details finalised at this stage so far in advance of the race. It is certainly not practicable to do so in a consent hearing.

“The process and milestones we have agreed with the Auckland City Council will ensure that plans are progressively firmed up and that the city is accountable for securing the support of its local authority neighbours.

“It is not appropriate for Transit to support or oppose the event. The MoU makes sure that if the race proceeds Transit’s responsibility for managing traffic can be satisfied,” he said.

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Gordon Campbell: On the Sony cyber attack

Given the layers of meta-irony involved, the saga of the Sony cyber attack seemed at the outset more like a snarky European art film than a popcorn entry at the multiplex.

Yet now with (a) President Barack Obama weighing in on the side of artistic freedom and calling for the US to make a ‘proportionate response’quickly followed by (b) North Korea’s entire Internet service going down, and with both these events being followed by (c) Sony deciding to backtrack and release The Interview film that had made it a target for the dastardly North Koreans in the first place, then ay caramba…the whole world will now be watching how this affair pans out. More>>