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Yes.

No-one was hurt in the blaze and the fire was extinguished.

Was this firetruck safe?

A fire truck catching fire would be pretty funny, if it wasn't so important for our safety.

Frazer engineering in lower hutt just posted some photos of a pair of appliances they're sending overseas to the northern territory, meanwhile we're importing units from the UK that don't work.

There's people working in FENZ that just have no business being where they are.

Well, there are a lot of these emergency vehicles going around the world all the time, and very seldom does anything like this happen. I just don’t want people thinking that firetrucks aren’t safe.

The New Zealand Professional Firefighters Union said the truck was only one of two high-reach heavy aerial-ladder trucks in the capital.

In a quake prone city. Work from home folks, if poss.

I don't really get to try many these days (given I'm not in the city every day like I used to be), and didn't even hear of anyone who went to this place. Anyone try it, or have any others that they particularly enjoye?

Visually, it's pretty cool, although I haven't looked at it on desktop yet. Functionality, it's terrible at conveying information.

I think it's a very pretty website. Was it worth it? Probably not

Oh fantastic!

Haha the article is from before the road got put up to 110, for most if it's life it's been 100. But yeah travelling up the Kāpiti coast before the expressway opened was not pleasant, it's for sure a much nicer and safer road.

Personally I don't have a problem with roads like that being 110, it's clearly a much safer road than our average 100kph roads.

That's fascinating, but not true.

The expressway itself has reduced fatalities, not the 110 limit on it.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/wellington/132425803/kpiti-road-fatalities-plummeted-since-expressways-opened

The Kapiti expressway is 110, and has made the area dramatically safer to drive in.

Reminds me of that Calvin and Hobbs:

Do we just put the speed limit up a bit at a time until people start dying, then go back down one level?

TBH I'm not too against this change assuming the part staying at 100 is the part I think it is. I have noticed traffic in the current 110 part tends to stick to 110 or slightly above, where as traffic on the 100 bit is often moving at 110 anyway. I'd bet the average speed didn't go up by a full 10kph when they changed it.

Minister, how many increased barrier strikes and deaths will it take to lower it to 100 again?

Ideally it'd stay at zero.

It just wouldn't be Wellington without the smell of raw sewage, would it?

Yeah, I've been there a few times myself. It looks like some major work is being done on the building though, which is good to see.

Ah, wow. That's the end of an era....

We had a great time on their crazy array of toy bikes and scooters.

| During the event Bloxham, who was attempting to film the protest, was seen scuffling with two protesters.

That's funny. Would the protesters not want it to be filmed, of did Bloxham actually start something, I wonder...

I can't even remember who this plonker was - gosh, wasn't it nice having so many to easily remove from 'the list to research', come voting time?

Calling him a mayoral hopeful is like calling me an aspiring formula 1 driver because I bought a car once.

It takes too long to remove garbage building like this. It should happen faster.

I've been struck by a small branch cycling up Mt. Vic this year. Scrubbed my shoulder and bruised my thigh a little...

Was a good wakeup call, really. Lucky to get off lightly and all that (dunno what my helmet would have done!)

I heard a tree come down on the ridgeline at the southern end of Mt Vic on Monday evening, I also saw the tree in the photo, which happened on Fergusson drive.

It's been interesting driving a van in these conditions.

Not that I'm aware of, no.