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which I don't generally do, is that I consider some of your article to be biased, with a reliance upon emotive and unverified statements. You may not like cars, or sprawl, or unfettered market capitalism per se but these are only your opinions, and I am saying that some of your arguments are somewhat simplistic and misleading. A wikipedia article is supposed to be as factual as possible. If you want to expound your opinions may I suggest that you keep to the forum side of things.
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well, so I'm not completely unbiased either:) I do see a place for motorways though, along with a strong public tranport system. This view is primarily for the safety benefits that a limited access roading system brings, NOT to relieve congestion - (and the
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I just reverted a large number of expansive good-faith edits. Then I put most of them back in. Why? I hope I did not act too much from a "This is MY baby!" reasoning (though the psychological drive behind editing for half an hour certainly included that) but there were a number of changes, especially
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Mad Max, I gain the impression from your article that you are unhappy about the level of use of vehicles in
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Cheers for that Mad Max. I'll add some stuff in the next while, and get some references. I thought rather than just jump in and edit, it would be better to discuss it with you first outside the article to see where you were coming from. I'm a transport planner and would profit from any changes as
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Now, that does hurt a bit. Go ahead, show me where my arguments are simplistic (not counting my rants here on the discussion page). Feel free to tone down what you see as bias, or add your views to balance the article. I am not promising to leave it alone, but I will certainly try to have an open
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to move further away from what they see as the negative sides of the city where they work. Case in point: coworker of mine just moved to Whangaparapa. He sure would not have moved to one of the little villages west of the Waitakere Ranges, even though they are closer...
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