Action Packed and a few Budget Blow Outs Council have released the agendas to both the Governing Body and Budget Committee for this Thursday. You can read the … Continue reading Governing Body and Budget Committee Agenda’s Out
Tag: Auckland
Labour on Housing
So National or Labour on Housing And the battle for the housing affordability answer is very much under way with Labour and their Kiwi Build, and National with … Continue reading Labour on Housing
Liveability in a Growing City – A MUST
Focus on Quality As Auckland continues to evolve and intensify the City will be met with new challenges; the biggest being livability. This editorial from the Vancouver Sun … Continue reading Liveability in a Growing City – A MUST
Light Rail and Urban Renewal
Can it work? The Ultimate Answer? Yes it can. The catch? Need to think outside the square if this is going to work. Recommendation: Do not attempt to even … Continue reading Light Rail and Urban Renewal
Resilience in our Transport Network
The Need for a Resilient Network
When you see this (and similar Tweets) all to often you wonder how resilient is our entire transport network is:
There is an article in the Herald about accident that happened last night which is still having effects NOW can be seen here: Fatal crash in Auckland closes major route to airport
The accident happened on I believe the from north to west link of the State Highway One/Twenty interchange that is known for speeding traffic and useless merging
Having a major route to the airport closed is not particular good. Then again neither is accidents anywhere on the motorway network nor blockages on the rail network and the trains not being able to “run around.” So the question is how do we get the transport network to be more resilient for both freight and people.
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I shall answer the question myself this weekend.
Have a good Friday everyone
AT Board March Agenda – And Prepare for June
Lots of stuff happening Auckland Transport have released their Board Meeting Papers for this month which you can see below. For full details and agenda items please go here. … Continue reading AT Board March Agenda – And Prepare for June
Dodgy Poll
Not all what to seems
[Please note I am not taking aim at Digi-Poll in any shape or form and I do respect their credibility as a polling company highly. I do however, take aim at the NZ Herald for their “reporting” and not laying out the fall statistical facts about the poll clearly in their article]
I did notice the Herald Digi-Poll out this morning citing a poll about Mayor Len Brown. You can read the article here: Thumbs down for Len Brown – poll
What the online piece did not show was the actual graphs which can be seen below from Twitter earlier today:
The Herald Digi-poll subsequently brought a stinging rebuke from Stats Chat which said:
Beyond the margin of error
Now, the Herald-Digipoll is supposed to be a real survey, with samples that are more or less representative after weighting. There isn’t a margin of error reported, but the standard maximum margin of error would be a little over 6%.
There are two aspects of the data that make it not look representative. Thr first is that only 31.3%, or 37% of those claiming to have voted, said they voted for Len Brown last time. He got 47.8% of the vote. That discrepancy is a bit larger than you’d expect just from bad luck; it’s the sort of thing you’d expect to see about 1 or 2 times in 1000 by chance.
More impressively, 85% of respondents claimed to have voted. Only 36% of those eligible in Auckland actually voted.
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So, how could the poll be so badly wrong? It’s unlikely to just be due to bad sampling — you could do better with a random poll of half a dozen people. There’s got to be a fairly significant contribution from people whose recall of the 2013 election is not entirely accurate, or to put it more bluntly, some of the respondents were telling porkies. Unfortunately, that makes it hard to tell if results for any of the other questions bear even the slightest relationship to the truth.
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You can read the full Stats Chat piece here: http://www.statschat.org.nz/2014/03/20/beyond-the-margin-of-error/
The bits in bold is what gives suspicion the poll was slanted to produce a “story” that was not truly there. Then again check this:
Thumbs down for Len Brown – poll
By Bernard Orsman 5:30 AM Thursday Mar 20, 2014
The journalist running the story is not known to be “objective” from time to time and has been pulled up before for either slanting or giving a misrepresentation (that is his opinion rather than a claimed fact).
So I would be very careful in trotting out this poll which has misrepresentations and a bad case of slanting as proof of fact against the Mayor. Using such a poll in that method will not do your credibility any good – although two of the oppositional five Councillors had (although expected).
Back to City Building we go as there is nothing to see from that Orsman piece.
Elections 2014 – Yet Another Labour Narrative
Get it right if you are going to pull something like this Yesterday I wrote a post on why Labour’s poll rating were tanking in my eyes and observations. … Continue reading Elections 2014 – Yet Another Labour Narrative
Elections 2014 – Labour Narrative
To me: Why is Labour tanking? Time to take a dabble into our central elections which take place on September 20th of this year. By now most of … Continue reading Elections 2014 – Labour Narrative
Major Transport Announcement – April 1
It is after 12pm so not an April Fools Joke
Saw this which lit Twitter up yesterday:
The announcement is after 12 so I highly doubt it is something to “yank our chain”
So we await for April
As for the EMU’s – the electric trains, they start running on the Onehunga Line on April 28th
Talking Southern Auckland 