Canterbury shall yet keep up the crusade

Christchurch Mayor Bob Parker has hit out at suggestions that rebuilding earthquake-hit Christchurch should be abandoned in favour of a super-sized Dunedin. In an opinion piece in the Otago Daily Times yesterday, Dunedin City councillor Lee Vandervis said it was insane to rebuild Christchurch on the same "bedevilled dirt", and resources should be used to transform Dunedin into a new South Island hub. There are a lot more things Dunedin could do with, for instance, more international flights from Dunedin Airport, more cinemas (maybe one in South Dunedin because the three we have are all a very short walk from each other), a bigger Highlanders fanbase, a KFC in the CBD area, a Nando's (I had that in Auckland and the chicken there was superb), and maybe a mall made of shipping containers. But Christchurch are deciding to rebuild anyway, so the earthquakes shouldn't be seen as an end but rather a new beginning. Christchurch will emerge even stronger, no matter what anybody says.