A total of 78% were against making the street one-way as part of a plan to make it more pedestrian friendly.
The poll is not scientific.
It comes after the Dunedin City Council’s planning and environment committee this week decided to push ahead with a business case for a one-way design for the city’s main shopping street, with the flexibility to convert back to a two-way street if it did not work out.
It rejected a staff recommendation for the opposite — a two-way design with the ability to shift to one-way.
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Don't expect DCC to even pay any attention to this
they are intent on getting their own ideas, ideals and values done ! and not those of who elected them no we don't want to give the ratepayers what they want ha.
if you want real change the only way it will happen is to vote them boofheds out in the next election.
And with the confusing STV system it's best just to vote for the one candidate you want in the most.
don't rank them in order as this will give the third most popular candidate the vote.
Until then there is no point in trying to change their mind they will do this but just wait and watch it fail
like the dots they left on the road.
And you think the DCC will listen?
"The poll is not scientific" - Exactly. No information is provided as to who was polled, what the questions were and what the instigators of the poll were looking for. It would be perfectly possible to run a second poll that would have precisely the opposite headline. If the last few years of global politics have taught us anything, it is to question reports such as these. The ODT really needs to step up to the mark.
Editor's note: We ran the poll because it is a hot topic which has hit the headlines recently. People who read the newspaper could contribute by ringing in and it also ran it online. The question was 'Should George St be made one-way to better accommodate pedestrians?' and the options were yes and no. We did it to find out what readers thought about the topic and are not claiming the results are scientific.
What Cull wanted Cull got at the expense of Dunedin, What Hawkins wants Hawkins will get, What http://old.iclei.org want Hawkins will also want. What Benson Pope wants he will tell Hawkins and Hawkins will be his puppet and want that too, what the Mayor wants the tight 5 will also agree to and want to. What the Dunedin's people want who cares as far as Hawkins and the tight 5 are concerned. Ask Cr Lee Vandervis a question and he will provide an answer in a suitable time frame.
Hawkins wreaking Dunedin since he was elected into council
Unfortunately this council will not listen to what the people want, only what they want. Hawkins and his acolytes need to learn to listen.