All the Auckland harbour crossing ideas, ranked from worst to bestThe Spinoff Daily, Friday October 4
Ahiahi mārie, welcome to The Spinoff Daily. Today on The Spinoff: Why free school lunches matter – and what one group of students is doing to save them. Plus: a defence of Sally Rooney’s skinny protagonists, and a misty-eyed ode to the landline telephone.
“Ever since the Auckland Harbour Bridge was born in 1959, we’ve been berating it as inadequate and a disappointment. For decades we’ve tried to replace it with a better model. Recently mayor Wayne Brown added another insult to the pile, proposing a weird bridge between Toby Manhire’s house in Point Chevalier and Anna Rawhiti-Connell’s place on the North Shore. He is just the latest in a long line of crossing dreamers. Their plans are as boundless as time and as numerous as the grains of sand on the beach. But that doesn’t mean The Spinoff can’t rank all 12 of them.”
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All the Auckland harbour crossing ideas, ranked from worst to best
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