Queenstown NZ: Airport Madness

Posted 13th June 2018 to the Otago Daily Times Newspaper Dunedin NZ

Re your Story:
It is hard to understand Queenstown planning concepts at times
I cant see why anyone would want to battle all the consents from landowners to get a Gondola from the Airport to the CBD.
I would say the low hanging fruit would be a Ferry Service across Frankton Arm to Queenstown Bay via a short tunnel from the terminal building to the waters edge.  Also a good opportunity to build a retro Victorian Era Ferry reminiscent of Queenstowns past heritage.

Besides all this, most future hotels will apparently be built in the land around Frankton...
And also a ferry would be very handy in the event of a strong earthquake if services have to come from the Kingston quay. 

Queenstown NZ Tourism Revolution needed

Posted 11th Dec 2017 to the Mountain Scene Newspaper Queenstown NZ.

I look at Queenstown these days and I sense despair for the future.. Every thing is hanging on direction for people of great wealth and power coming in from far away to fix Queenstown with a bundle of cash and good intentions. 
The sad fact is there are way to few Paul Brianerds out there to come in and save your bacon.

If people wish to live and work in a place like Queenstown they will need to pull together and form cooperatives.
The Government is too weak and greedy private enterprise are not going to help.

In economic terms you are in a DEAD END unless you pull together.  
As UK leader Jeremy Corbin says there is now no real alternative.

Our property speculation bubble will POP one day and nobody has a plan that I can see
And a lot of our benevolent rich people will turn out to have feet of clay when that happens.  
   
A strong co-operative is unbreakable!