After all, if you live around the Pakuranga part of town, you’ve been the subject of construction fatigue for years and years, and you finally thought “I might give the Eastern Busway a go”.
Well, even though work started way back in 2018, the only part that’s complete so far is the leg called EB1 from Panmure to the Pakuranga Town Centre.
The other parts: EB2, 3, and 4 (along Ti Rakau Drive to Botany) are still a long way from completion.
But when they do open, you’ll have to be aware of the names of the new bus stations that are being used by Auckland Transport (AT) and will be signposted accordingly: Te Taha Wai, Koata, and Pōhatu.
Now go on, be honest: how many of you could take me to one of these bus stations if you were asked? Note that in the last census, just under one per cent of the people of Howick said they spoke te reo.
Now it turns out these three new bus stations are located in reasonably well-known parts of the Pakuranga landscape. They’re all along Ti Rākau Drive at Edgewater, Gossamer and Burswood.
If you said I’ll meet you at the Gossamer bus station, I’d be cool with that. But if you said meet me at Te Taha Wai bus stop, I wouldn’t have a clue.
Now don’t get me wrong. I’m not opposed to using Māori place names, especially when they’re well known and part of the everyday lexicon.
During my time as a Member of Parliament for Pakuranga, I had to fight the Electoral Commission on two separate occasions when it wanted to change the electorate’s name.
I’m proud of the name Pakuranga and did not want it changed under any circumstances.
And before you start calling me racist, can I just remind you that as Minister of Broadcasting, I set up 23 Māori language radio stations across New Zealand and created the Māori Broadcast Funding agency Te Māngai Paho.
For me, it’s just that when place names like Edgewater, Gossamer and Burswood have been here for decades, and it’s well-known roughly where they’re located, why are we forcing the public into having to learn new place names in a language that only one per cent say they can speak?
The same goes for the huge flyover that’s been built over the top of Reeves Road.
It was always referred to as the Reeves Road Flyover, but now AT insists we call it Ra Hihi.
And here’s a classic. Big signs have gone up around the ward that say Waka Kōpiko.
That supposedly directs travellers to the ferries. But I’ve asked two very fluent Māori speakers what Kōpiko means, and both say it means curved or bent.
This is just madness........The full article is published HERE
Maurice Williamson had a 30-year career as the National Party Member of Parliament for Pakuranga and is currently an Auckland City councillor.
The other parts: EB2, 3, and 4 (along Ti Rakau Drive to Botany) are still a long way from completion.
But when they do open, you’ll have to be aware of the names of the new bus stations that are being used by Auckland Transport (AT) and will be signposted accordingly: Te Taha Wai, Koata, and Pōhatu.
Now go on, be honest: how many of you could take me to one of these bus stations if you were asked? Note that in the last census, just under one per cent of the people of Howick said they spoke te reo.
Now it turns out these three new bus stations are located in reasonably well-known parts of the Pakuranga landscape. They’re all along Ti Rākau Drive at Edgewater, Gossamer and Burswood.
If you said I’ll meet you at the Gossamer bus station, I’d be cool with that. But if you said meet me at Te Taha Wai bus stop, I wouldn’t have a clue.
Now don’t get me wrong. I’m not opposed to using Māori place names, especially when they’re well known and part of the everyday lexicon.
During my time as a Member of Parliament for Pakuranga, I had to fight the Electoral Commission on two separate occasions when it wanted to change the electorate’s name.
I’m proud of the name Pakuranga and did not want it changed under any circumstances.
And before you start calling me racist, can I just remind you that as Minister of Broadcasting, I set up 23 Māori language radio stations across New Zealand and created the Māori Broadcast Funding agency Te Māngai Paho.
For me, it’s just that when place names like Edgewater, Gossamer and Burswood have been here for decades, and it’s well-known roughly where they’re located, why are we forcing the public into having to learn new place names in a language that only one per cent say they can speak?
The same goes for the huge flyover that’s been built over the top of Reeves Road.
It was always referred to as the Reeves Road Flyover, but now AT insists we call it Ra Hihi.
And here’s a classic. Big signs have gone up around the ward that say Waka Kōpiko.
That supposedly directs travellers to the ferries. But I’ve asked two very fluent Māori speakers what Kōpiko means, and both say it means curved or bent.
This is just madness........The full article is published HERE
Maurice Williamson had a 30-year career as the National Party Member of Parliament for Pakuranga and is currently an Auckland City councillor.
18 comments:
Why can English place names not be used as well? Its it because we uneducated idiots MUST be indoctrinated to learn us?
With the CRL, largely funded by evil colonisers, the new station names are Mangawhau, Karang a hape and the third, something completely unpronounceable.
Rather it should also read, Mt Eden, because that is where the station is and that was it's name like forever. And even more simply, its the suburb it's located in. Duh!
K Rd, which is what it will be called anyway, is actually Karangahape Rd, has been forever but in true recent Maori politics where the words change pronunciation annually, that wasn't enough. So we get a different way of spelling it just to confuse the shit out of everyone.
Then the unpronounceable name station, fully irrelevant in it's meaning anyway, but it should be Victoria St or Wellesley St. Because that is where it is! You know, really important for public transport users, not woke dicks drowning in their magnanimous ego's, resplendent with that addictive warm tummy feeling.
And the coup d'etat, Waitemata. Not Downtown Auckland, hell no, they've named Grand Central RR Station after the bloody harbour. There is no suburb there, no borough, nothing. Britomart was stupid enough, this is even more ridiculous.
Then we are patronisingly told by our woke council acolytes who think we riff raff are culturally stupid, that these names are "gifts", as if to justify this madness. Precisely how much did these "gifts" cost us? And I understand the massive expense of these stations decor is again in consultation with Maori. $-Ch-ching.
This system just stiffed the colonisers an awful lot of money. We got no say. And then we are insulted in the biggest possible way when something as ultra colonial as railway infrastructure is named illogically to sooth the woke within Auckland Council.
In the very least, put the English names we all understand, on equal size at each station, so at least passengers know exactly where they are going. Something very basic that underpins any public service, not a warped woke elites view of the world we keep getting beaten with.
I think NZ First making English an official language cannot come soon enough.
An official, Dictionary of the Maori Language seventh edition - MA Williams states Kopiko :
go alternatively in opposite directions , meander .
To be totally confused Kopiko; Make looped snares from strips of palm lily.
No irony in someone who loves a Pakuranga deriding Maori names? None at all? Bueller? Bueller?
Maori is a mostly made up language now. None of it makes sense. Especially the pidgin version or Manglish that the media use.
Maurice should be ashamed of wasting all that money on promoting te lingo on the airwaves for a small minority of New Zealanders.
May be setting up all those radio stations was a mistake?
One could be forgiven for thinking maori is the only language spoken in this country...
Pure and simple indoctrination by the Council white ants.
Do they stand back proudly pointing out these ridiculous names and say " I changed NZ forever "
Are they proud that they piss off 99% of the population?
Sadly, I expect that they do.
Dear Fellow Citizens ,
You are being told that a Take 0ver by Maori has occurred - without consultation and totally unauthorized .
Go figure for the consequences.
AT have closed down all train services in Auckland this morning because of a minor , 20 x 50 metre grass fire , within a kilometer of Parnell Station.
Less than zero that the fire could ever be a problem.
Just bloody ridiculous idiots running AT.
Just open the lines and get back to creating a long replacement name in te reo for Parnell.
I'm sure some Maori will tell you that his ancestors had a picnic there 500 years ago, opened a few pipis, and require rights to everything there forever.
The amount of Maori language announcements on the Southern line train is ridiculous. At any time,
a language other than English should be in one of the Sub Continent languages for the benefit of staff and a high percentage of travelers.
We all are in the midst of a revolution, remember no matter how illogical the issue, it has purpose.
Ultimately the goal is as elsewhere throughout the west, the dimize of free thinking individualism for mindless servitude and control.
I'm aware of how this extreme view point is. But it is no less extreme than asking 100% of the population to except a foreign word written on a bus stop wall, that already has a name we all know and understand.
Space place in Wellington is no different- everything is in Maori. Waste of time going there.
Wellington library likewise - absolute waste of your time if you aren’t fluent in Maori.
This country has become a joke
Libraries are never a waster of time if you have an interest in learning.
All the gifted Maori name BS is in effect a present day Trojan Horse, let it in at your peril, oops to ruddy late!
Hospitals are the same. Invented tereo names for things like 'oncology', 'coronary' etc. Most fluent tereo speakers have to keep up with learning the new words. As had been said dozens of times before, the main purpose of language is COMMUNICATION. Even a local rest home has big tereo signs, as well as English. Must be of great benefit to elderly patients and the nurses (especially those Indian and Filipino nurses)
Seems illegal to use only Maori. If Maori really believe in partnership all names should be Maori-English. One could check naming practices in Wales or Canada.
Anon 1057, don't you see a bit of a conundrum in a library using a mesolithic language from a non-literate culture?
Slightly off subject but what idiot would give names like 'COOK' and 'KUPE' to the new interislander ferries?
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