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本帖最后由 陌生的香港人 于 2011-6-27 17:10 编辑
Hope this will not become another post of fighting and argument thou I can see there is a potential...
In terms of the Chinatown idea, the Herald reported that Dominion Road was an option - indeed, it is already a de facto Chinatown given its high concentration of small-scaled Chinese restaurants (same as other areas such as Northcote, New Lynn, Mt Albert, etc) - however, the area is not in a very good location as a Chinatown as shops are lingering along a major arterial road linking between the CBD and Mt Roskill with primarily movement focus (and council had long designated Dominion Road as a public transport corridor).
A Chinatown should be indeed a 'place' on its own where people can stay, walk and enjoy themselves with cultural events happen from time to time, likes the Chinatown in Sydney (thou I dont like the setting of Chinatown there either....). It is obvious that Dominion Road cannot serve this function at least at this stage...
The recent 24 hour bus lane/cycle lane project proposed last year which tried to give effect to the public transport corridor idea is another threat to businesses over there as on-street parking spaces were proposed to be TOTALLY removed in order to give way to this bus lane/cycle lane. It was sad to see that during the consultation period, Chinese businesses did not appear to work together to fight against the proposal as far as I was aware ...I believe some kind of union/association to unite the Chinese businesses there (and other similar 'Chinatowns' in the region) is required, especially considering many Chinese business owners there can't speak much English at all... |
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