StrypeyWhile I'm living in HamilTron, city of the future, I want to help create a cooperatively-run cafe and arts venue. I reckon we could crowdfund the costs of setting it up, by promising $23 worth of coffee and food for each $20 contributed.
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I need to figure out how to get it off the ground, and whether to make it a worker-owned co-op or a customer-owned one. If we go worker-owned, we could start with a coffee cart as a test flight.
But I'm leaning towards skipping that step and going straight into a building. There are so many empty around the city right now, and there is a real need for more convivial spaces. In which case customer-owned might be the way to go. In a cafe that includes workers anyway (everyone eats, right?)
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𝓒𝓱𝓻𝓲𝓼@chris
> where to find HamilTron?
On the banks of the mighty Waikato, river of a thousand chiefs, Te Ika a Maui, Aotearoa.
> Or do you mean Hamilton?
Which one? There are half a dozen of those. But only one HamilTron.
Light@strypey
You mean this place?
https://www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2017/09/22/hamilton-city-of-the-future/
https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/2595124
@chris
You mean this place?
https://www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2017/09/22/hamilton-city-of-the-future/
https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/2595124
@chris
Hamilton: City of the Future - Greater Auckland
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@light
> You mean this place?
That's the one. Thanks for the link to the article on the Greater Auckland site, which linked to this fantastic proposal for a rapid passenger rail service between Tamaki Makaurau, Waikato and Tauranga;
https://www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2017/08/17/introducing-regional-rapid-rail/
In these days of oil wars and spiking fossil fuel prices, this proposal from 2017 looks even more prescient than it did at the time.
#PassengerRail #FastTrains #GoldenTriangle #PublicTransport #railways #trains
Introducing Regional Rapid Rail - Greater Auckland
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"The Stage 2 investment of $400 million dollars, comparable to one section of an expressway bypass, buys a comprehensive three-line rapid rail network linking Auckland, Hamilton and Tauranga to each other, and to their satellite towns and villages. The Stage 3 network of $1.5 billion would revolutionise transport in the Golden Triangle area, for the price of one rural motorway."
#HarrietGale, 2017
https://www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2017/08/17/introducing-regional-rapid-rail/
'Oh but we can't afford a modern train system'. Bollox we can't.
Introducing Regional Rapid Rail - Greater Auckland
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"Regional Rapid Rail could also be expanded to other parts of New Zealand. Networks focussed on Wellington and Christchurch are the obvious candidates."
#HarrietGale, 2017
https://www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2017/08/17/introducing-regional-rapid-rail/
It's worth remembering that our existing railways weren't built as a national rail network. They started as local and regional transport systems, and only later were plans made to join then up into a comprehensive national network. A job that was never finished (eg Ōtautahi to Whakatū).
Introducing Regional Rapid Rail - Greater Auckland
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