George St works, Jules Radich, Team Dunedin and a question from the ODT

Some additional comment

At 1:50pm on Friday 16th September Dunedin City council candidates received an email from Grant Miller a reporter at the Otago Daily Times.

Kia ora,

I'm looking to get a selection of views regarding Team Dunedin's call for a review of the George St makeover.

What did you make of this?

I've got a tight turnaround for a story, to get it in Saturday's paper, so any response would need to be in by 4pm today.

My response was 6 minutes later as I happened to be online at the time.

Hi Grant,

not good for cars, not good for cyclists, not good for pedestrians and not good for retailers.

Cars because nobody wants to drive at 10kmh hour, cyclists because those frustrated car drivers are going to be sharing the road with them and pedestrians because they have to navigate both cyclists and car drivers. Also I've seen no bike parking spots in the plans tha…