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Letters to the Editor: the stadium hotel, electric buses and Luxon
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Letters to the Editor: the stadium hotel, electric buses and Luxon

Otago Daily Times Online News·Monday, 27 April 2026·about 1 month ago
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Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including the debacle of "our glorious stadium", all power to electric buses, and Luxon's bull dust economy. Stadium hotel is a befuddling concept Maybe Dunedin's ratepayers have every reason to thank whoever leaked details of yet another ill-conceived scheme designed to salvage something from the debacle of what once was hailed by some, as "our glorious stadium". Could someone please explain for the benefit of my age-befuddled brain what this hotel exercise is hoped to achieve? What exactly is its function? Surely not accommodation for out-of-towners predicted to visit the city for stadium events, when it becomes more obvious by the day that anything worth attending will draw the line at Christchurch with its massive raft of advantages in terms of accessibility, bums-on-seats etc. Mass entertainment in this era is a hard-nosed business, not a charity.…

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