OPINION

The council says the culling of these rubbish bins will save 9 million dollars a year.  Really?  They are more than happy to ignore what has always been a Council core service, and spend so much of our hard-earned rates on such things as those extremely expensive rainbow pedestrian crossings, creating cycleways that are never used, and agreeing to the payment of grants to any waste of space group or organization including those untrustworthy Maori trusts who have an unlimited hunger for funds. Another council spending frivolity is we now have electric buses that cost almost twice that of a diesel bus, plus charging infrastructure. The council are idiots who virtue signal at every opportunity.

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