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The Star 7 News Local News Now Free Wi-Fi trial for two bus routes • By Bridget Rutherford BUS PASSENGERS are now able to read the news and scroll through social media as Environment Canterbury trials free Wi-Fi on two bus routes. The three-month trial started on Tuesday, on the 29 airport-city and the 85 Rolleston-city. Environment Canterbury public transport senior manager Stewart Gibbon said they chose the two routes to target people heading on a longer trip to and from work, and the airport. “We’ve had a large number of requests asking us to introduce free Wi-Fi on buses so we thought we’d trial it for three months to see if people use it, how much they use it and also figure out the value would be to roll it out across the network if it proved successful.” Passengers will be able to fill out surveys about the Wi-Fi to give feedback, he said. The information gathered would be shared with the Public Transport Joint Committee, and used by ECan to help plan future on board bus services. ECan chairman Steve Lowndes said the trial was part of trying to give people a bus system people wanted to use. Women hit back at Keown • By Julia Evans CITY COUNCILLOR Aaron Keown has got himself into another stoush – this time over a comment he made about Merivale wives. “I look at Banks Peninsula as more like a Merivale wife – they look really good but very expensive,” is the analogy Cr Keown used to describe the area during city council Long Term Plan funding discussions on Monday. But yesterday women in Merivale struck back, saying it was Aaron Keown “sexist” and “tall poppy”. Merivale resident, business owner, property developer and mother Michelle Crouch said the comment contributed to a widespread negative stereotype about women in the suburb. “People say that kind of thing all the time, they think it’s a joke . . . It’s just a perception people have and it sounds like tall poppy syndrome,” she said. However, Cr Keown told The Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi Star that his comments were not meant to be taken as sexist, only as a “comedic quip to lighten the mood” during LTP discussions. “Normally good looking wives are expensive. It’s expensive for hairdressers and make-up and clothes . . . they don’t shop at The Warehouse.” A Merivale wife that did not want to be named called Cr Keown’s comment “incredibly Thursday May 3 2018 Fire rages, homes at risk LABEL: Merivale’s Michelle Crouch says Cr Keown’s comment is a false perception that a lot of people have. PHOTO: MARTIN HUNTER sexist.” Mayor Lianne Dalziel was not impressed either. During the meeting, she ruled it out of order. “I know what you’re trying to say, it just really was a very bad way to try and say it,” she said. But Cr Keown disagreed. He said, if anything, it should be taken as a compliment and he never said the women hadn’t earned the money themselves. “It’s a compliment to Akaroa, which is not cheap, according to our budget. I was comparing Merivale women to one of the best looking places in the world.” “Maybe they’re good looking and cheap then, I don’t know . . . it can’t be a coincidence that all the Botox clinics are in Merivale.” Have you checked your underfloor repairs? This is the sort of ‘repair’ we are finding. We will go under your house and give you peace of mind for free. NO WIN NO FEE Ph: 03 377 8855 | 130 Ferry Road, Christchurch E: reception@earthquakeservices.co.nz | W: www.earthquakeservices.co.nz
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