@Darius

It certainly was not safer for the 4 people mentioned in the article. Oh, and once again, for people like me who couldn't understand your post, why are you in such a hurry again?

Moot 36# 12.53pm Dec 17 2010 New Zealand is home to some 750.000 heavy drinkers mix that with 50.000 Rugby World Cup fans in September chances of getting hit by a bus in Wellington are looking pretty damn good. Our drinking culture combined with designer jaywalking gives warrant to bus drivers needing a pay rise for having to start their daily shift not knowing whether they need to fill out an incident report afterwards. Manners Street is "too narrow" ask any bus-driver they try very hard not to hit you in the head with the bus wing mirrors, reason why their is little to no room left between the buses to manouevre. If this council thinks it is okay to leave public safety till the last minute and in the hands of bus-drivers something is seriously wrong with this administration. Bad Design! Bad Luck??????

So the buses are going a lot slower, are they ?

Are they actually abiding by the road rules now, and not becoming stationary (parking) on pedestrian crossings, and breaking amber and red lights ?

Funny ... only yesterday I observed instances of both breaches.

So what is their saving in time to get through the CBD now ? Or have pedestrians lost the best recreational area available to them in the city, and have to put up with an unsightly and noisy procession of polluting big-yellows to no avail ?

The proposed madness of mixing cars and pedestrians in a future abysmal substitute for the mall which has been lost to pedesrians, and to the detriment of the ambiance of City, must be avoided at all cost.

The last Council had gone off-the-rails, completely.

Even if you lack sympathy for people who can't cross a street properly, I think you have to consider the fallout for the drivers and bystanders who become involved.

The council persists in creating streets with no transition zone between footpath and roadway. This has caused problems in the past, and the problems will continue as long as the council persists in ignoring the way people really behave in favour of the exemplary citizen.

Even if you lack sympathy for people who can't cross a street properly, I think you have to consider the fallout for the drivers and bystanders who become involved.

The council persists in creating streets with no transition zone between footpath and roadway. This has caused problems in the past, and the problems will continue as long as the council persists in ignoring the way people really behave in favour of the exemplary citizen.

@dave #33- Dear Dave,

When will people admit that it's generally a bad idea to walk in front of a moving bus?

Your sincerely, Someone who looks both ways before crossing the road.

His own fault, why the issue.

If people can not cross a road, they deserve to run over. If you think you are not going to make to the other side of the road, then dont cross. Wait until it is clear and then cross, or EVEN use the crossing.

Crossing behind the bus, is just stupid as you can not see in the other directions is plain stupid.

Learn the highway code, then maybe just maybe you can cross the road on your own.

Just how difficult is it to be run over by a bus? Is terminal stoopidity a pre-requisite for living in Wellyboots? It is big. It is yellow. It is moving. Let us try to NOT walk out in front of it.

@twinkle #35: There are a few intersections like that around Wellington and they're bloody annoying.

Please sign the following E-petition: Make the Wellington Tramways Union part of the Manners Street Taskforce.

http://www.wellington.govt.nz/haveyoursay/e-petitions/ep/details/149