The NZ Media Council has upheld a complaint against a RNZ story on accuracy.
The story titled Florist says Julie Anne Genter exchange was a ‘massive imbalance of power’ was about a Wellington florist’s claim of being bullied by Green MP Julie Anne Genter over a controversial cycleway project in Newtown.
The article incorrectly claimed that car parks were removed from outside the florist’s shop to make way for a cycleway.
Complainant Tom Pearce provided photographic evidence showing there have never been car parks or a cycleway directly outside the shop on Riddiford Street.
I kinda sympathise though - the shops there have always struggled as long as I can remember (which, in fairness, probably isn’t that long). Newtown has been dead for about a decade, easily.
Yes both parties are being dicks and the florist is probably conflating issues and blaming the bike lanes incorrectly.
It seems like one upside is, countdowns expansive parking is, I believe, available for people to use (I vaguely recall signage about it)