Originally Posted by
FlightlessParrot
Standard Auckland infrastructure problem, I'm afraid. This is the city that 20 years ago had an electricity outage in the CBD that lasted for five weeks.
To some extent it's because Auckland has grown very fast indeed, and the infrastructure in all sorts of areas hasn't kept up. Mostly, I fear, because local politicians don't want to raise rates, and national politicians and bureaucrats aren't in Auckland, and many hate the place; but the pace of development would have needed to be pretty brisk.
It's also true that NZ is a long, thin, country, that makes the routing of genuinely redundant services a bit difficult.
Hrmmm, they've had no issue in increasing my rates (in Auckland). They've nearly doubled over the past 5 years.
