No mention of what they’re protesting but hopefully this isn’t some sort of attempt to repeat the literal shit-show from last year.
Edit: apparently it’s people gluing themselves to roads to promote trains. https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/national/traffic-disruption-warning-by-police-ahead-of-restore-passenger-rail-protest/
As a civil disobedience tactic I can see why you’d do this. Its pretty straightforward to pull off and hard to prevent, which if disruption and attention is your goal is kind of ideal.
By comparison, any political party event of note will have security and therell be only a few key points to disrupt. Roads are everywhere and way harder for the police/security to anticipate and prevent ahead of time.
There is the rather large downside, in that you are disrupting the lives of ordinary people, many of whom, like myself, need to be driving for work reasons.
Consequently, everyone will hate you. These guys aren’t popular at all, especially among Wellington tradies.
I want to be clear I think it’s fairly annoying and potentially dangerous to glue oneself to a major arterial road. That said, the goal is to annoy people like you until you stop driving and start taking the train. It’d be a better plan if the trains weren’t wildly unreliable.
I’ve got a van full of tools I need to do my job, dumbass. Public transport simply isn’t an option for me.
They’re not trying to be popular, they’re trying to get attention
I mean, punching someone will get their attention, but it won’t get them on your side.
They’re not punching people though
It’s a metaphor.