Chart o’ the day: drop meet ocean

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1. Matthew Hooton 1

   24 August 2011 at 11:12 am

   Are there really 500 cycleway workers? That seems quite a few for a project like that and would suggest the policy has been more successful than I expected (had assumed it was a total flop).
   • mickysavage 1.1

     24 August 2011 at 11:17 am

     I agree with Matthew 100%.
      
     Did I just say that?
   • freedom 1.2

     24 August 2011 at 11:27 am

     I would like to know how many of the ‘500’ are simply State and private sector employees tasked for the Cycleway but were actually employed already, under Urban Planning or Surveyors etc, and how the number of new jobs created by the Cycleway of Insignificance stacks up against this total.
   • Blighty 1.3

     24 August 2011 at 11:45 am

     I can’t believe people pay for that spin from you, Hoots.

     500 workers in total so far but how many hours has each been employed for? The government doesn’t know, but it’s unlikely they’re all fulltime, permanent jobs, eh?

     And this is a $50m project. Only employing 500 workers is $100K per worker. Not cheap, especially as these are unlikely to have been long-term jobs.
     • Lanthanide 1.3.1

       24 August 2011 at 12:35 pm

       One would think these cycleway workers are the very epitome of what Bill English called “fake jobs”.
       • McFlock 1.3.1.1

         24 August 2011 at 1:41 pm

         Yep – in a future history of New zealand the cycleway will be a footnote in the same chapter as Forbes’ & Coates’ ditch-digging/refilling.
   • Kaplan 1.4

     24 August 2011 at 11:49 am

     Are you really that oblivious of the facts around National’s cornerstone jobs policy?
   • Bored 1.5

     24 August 2011 at 12:00 pm

     Matthew, you may recall that Campbell was reporting on the increasing kilometers of cycleway on his show regularly….it got more than a little embarressing for Jokey. Then Campbell stopped doing it…do you think he got “nobbled”?
     • William Joyce 1.5.1

       24 August 2011 at 12:17 pm

       Yeah, by a $43 million “loan” from the Taxpayer, doing what the right do so well – play fast and loose with other people’s money, socialise the loses and then bitch about the left being preoccupied with wealth redistribution
       • Roflcopter 1.5.1.1

         24 August 2011 at 6:32 pm

         Show us where the Gov’t actually gave them $43M…. you can’t, because they didn’t… loser.
   • bbfloyd 1.6

     24 August 2011 at 12:28 pm

     i would hazard a guess that the majority of workers counted as working on the “john key memorial cycleway” are the ones working on the ones already commenced by local councils etc before johnny sparkle had his little epiphany..
   • mik e 1.7

     24 August 2011 at 4:44 pm

     MH its the sort of financial failure I have come to expect from the spin machine.Its slightly better than boot camps.and other band aids this govt has tried.
2. The Voice of Reason 2

   24 August 2011 at 11:22 am

   Key promised 4000 jobs and like most of the things we associate with the PM, it lacks substance. So far, only 200 hundred jobs that can be in any way associated with the cycleway have been identified. That doesn’t include yours, of course, Matthew.
3. Richard 3

   24 August 2011 at 1:47 pm

   Bet you the workers are getting about minimum wage, not $50k
   • infused 3.1

     25 August 2011 at 1:31 pm

     Yeah, because it’s such a skilled job…
4. Ianupnorth 4

   24 August 2011 at 2:37 pm

   Richard, from what I have seen some of the work has been done by people on PD – does that even count as paid work?
5. Craig Glen Eden 5

   24 August 2011 at 5:37 pm

   If its a National minister its them being ambitious, proactive, and ambitious for the less well off needing a hand up if it was Labour spending the money it wouldnt be a real job aye?

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