Spending millions on five cubicles, ribbed timber cladding, designer architecture and $150,000 worth of LED lights? What the actual heck.
This is what happens when ideological vanity takes priority over basic responsibility. Tory Whanau, backed by a Green and Labour-aligned council, is more than happy to burn ratepayer money on flashy, feel-good projects. All this in the middle of a cost of living crisis, with some of the steepest rate hikes the city has seen.
Wellingtonians are facing an 18.5 percent rates rise, and what do they get? A $2.3 million toilet with rainbow lights and an external mural. Pipes are bursting, roads are crumbling, and council debt is climbing. Tory Whanau is too busy putting on a light show.
This toilet is the perfect symbol of everything wrong with the capital right now. The council obsesses over identity signalling while ignoring the basics. Clean, safe, accessible public toilets are essential. They don’t need to be art installations or Instagram backdrops.
Under Tory Whanau, Wellington has become a city of spectacle over substance. The priorities are backwards. Flashy lights will not mask the smell of neglect. Ratepayers are not getting value. They are getting ripped off, one woke vanity project at a time.
Wellingtonians are facing an 18.5 percent rates rise, and what do they get? A $2.3 million toilet with rainbow lights and an external mural. Pipes are bursting, roads are crumbling, and council debt is climbing. Tory Whanau is too busy putting on a light show.
This toilet is the perfect symbol of everything wrong with the capital right now. The council obsesses over identity signalling while ignoring the basics. Clean, safe, accessible public toilets are essential. They don’t need to be art installations or Instagram backdrops.
Under Tory Whanau, Wellington has become a city of spectacle over substance. The priorities are backwards. Flashy lights will not mask the smell of neglect. Ratepayers are not getting value. They are getting ripped off, one woke vanity project at a time.
Matua Kahurangi is just a bloke sharing thoughts on New Zealand and the world beyond. No fluff, just honest takes. He blogs on https://matuakahurangi.com/ where this article was sourced.
4 comments:
What is happening in Wellington, under Tori, will be what happens all over NZ once the Greens and TPM get control through a coalition with Labour. That is their vision for NZ, promoted by the MSM.
Don't forget about the $200k for the kiddies slide in the million dollar playground in Parliament, or the half million dollar bike rack - that's just scratches the surface.
What is it about Wellington that their leaders make such obviously poor financial decisions ?
Not that the rest of the country is much better, though Wellington is more blatant.
If you think Tory Whanau has " been bad", then I hate to think what people will say if/when Andre Little is elected mayor (note lower case m).
To advance my 'case', he is the gezzer who spent $50 mil on a
" potential ' re -entry into the Pike River Mine, which was prior to an election and ' noted ' as being a vote catching bride, with West Coasters, particularly those who lost love ones in the mine incident, to have at the end of ' the so called re dig' be advised that the mining team could go no further, to which commentators said at the time, " we knew this".
Nothing changes. Remind me how much the ratepayers had to fork out to "redevelop" the perfectly functional Pigeon Park in the 1990s, a substantial part of which lined the pockets of a certain Shona Rapira Davies (Ngāti Wai ki Aote) and her fellow-traveller artists Kura Te Waru-Rewiri (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kahu, Ngāti Rangi and Ngāti Kauwhata). Heritage New Zealand's website gushes about how their work "acknowledges the past and provides a place of interest and rest", a job that could have been done rather cheaper by a bit of signage run up by any half- competent graphic designer. And what about the cost of the "artwork" on the City to the Sea footbridge from the same era that was designed to celebrate the relationship between Maori and Pakeha. I'm guessing that celebration didn't come cheap. Perhaps the money spent on the "art" should have gone into the seismic design; right now the proposed demolition of the bridge is a metaphor for that relationship. Nothing changes.
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