Comments on: Clifford Bay business case ripe for more investigation http://business.scoop.co.nz/2012/11/01/clifford-bay-business-case-ripe-for-more-investigation/ Scoop Media Business Blog Tue, 14 May 2013 05:32:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Carol Cudby http://business.scoop.co.nz/2012/11/01/clifford-bay-business-case-ripe-for-more-investigation/comment-page-1/#comment-87878 Carol Cudby Tue, 13 Nov 2012 00:07:18 +0000 http://business.scoop.co.nz/?p=71117#comment-87878 I am Carol Cudby, editor of Kiwi Paradise, our new N.Z Intranzit Tourist magazine which is based on Picton and the Marlborough Sounds, including the Cook Strait Link.

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What are your views in regards to the inter-island port being moved from Picton to Clifford Bay, south of Seddon.?

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]]> By: John McCaskey http://business.scoop.co.nz/2012/11/01/clifford-bay-business-case-ripe-for-more-investigation/comment-page-1/#comment-86107 John McCaskey Mon, 05 Nov 2012 05:55:26 +0000 http://business.scoop.co.nz/?p=71117#comment-86107 The idea of Clifford Bay as a port should be dropped in favour of re-establishing the Lyttleton-Wellington ferry service.
There have been many closures of St Hwy 1 (and the rail) over many years plus a growing number of accidents which can be expected to worsen.
The old ferries gave great, reliable service to a country of less than 2m–now we are 4.4m. so don’t give me any crap about the idea not being feasable, after all some are stupid enough to think ETS is a good ldea-at least this is a practical means of lowering the much flaunted carbon polution and saving some of the funds us primary producers subsidise the country by earning–with no thanks!.
That this is a political ploy driven by vested interests is obvious–too commercially sensitive to be made public yet presumably the stupid public will cough up the tax to fund it and still end up with a highly shonky unreliable main artery south/north.
What consideration has been given to the dredging effects in relation to the nearby saltworks? How safe a habour would this be in a “Bola” like storm?
A ferry ticket from Helsinki to Stockholm (overnight trip) cost me E40 (Nz$63) in a floating luxury (by NZ standards) hotel, to arrive, as one did in the days of “common sense NZ”, fully rested with a whole day ahead.

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