WELLINGTON'S TALE OF TWO CROSSINGS

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I remember a happy Mayor Justin Lester photographed with happy children on the freshly-painted rainbow pedestrian crossing in Cuba Street.

It was estimated to cost $42,200 but after (I imagine) howls of protest from more sober-minded citizens, was revised down to a mere bagatelle - $32,000.

Now I see Island Bay residents Beth and Angus Houston taking their lives in their hands to cross from Shorland Park to Island Bay beach, where after 6 years of pleading there is still not even a bog-standard zebra crossing with lollipops which would cost half the price.

Just how happy would Lester be, and what pride would Wellingtonians feel if a child were run over and possibly killed?  

Wellington wants to be known as 'pride-friendly', but it's actually 'child-friendly' that produces future citizens.  

Wellington needs to take pride in children more than pride in 'pride'.