For me, there is nothing wrong with wanting to improve the safety around the Wellington waterfront, perhaps with a simple commonsense (yet robust) fencing solution as has already been identified (as the image and article attached shows), I certainly feel it is a necessity that requires urgent attention, and the solution that is attached seems perfectly fine to me.
This is especially, critically, given the coroners recommendations after someone recently died and the trauma and subsequent campaign of his family, and the multiple tragic deaths (seven from memory) over the years. I imagine most if not all of these could have been avoided.
You might like to read this article from August 2025 if you have a minute or two: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/politics/569388/councillor-says-safety-not-prioritised-as-wellington-waterfront-fence-voted-down
Fencing (or whatever suitable and effective method is adopted), is sure to protect and save lives in the future, not to mention restore a sense of safety and ease amongst the many people who walk this route, where I for one avoid walking that way on some occasions, even during the day, because of the risk that I see it poses in some circumstances.
From a spiritual perspective, which I feel is especially important, adopting fencing, barriers, or taking advantage of what natural barriers might already exist is the right thing to do, for what my view is worth, especially where spiritual accountability is concerned, especially where it was made quite clear by the coroner that this should have always been the course of action to take, and take immediately.
A council voting “yes” and implementing a safety-orientated solution removes the karmic responsibility that the council are likely to face if nothing is done and another death occurs, even if there is no belief of any kind of spiritual law that is “cause and effect”, or very simply put, “what you do to others will come back to you in return”.
Essentially, each of us is a spiritual being, and at our deepest innermost spiritual layers, in that “superconscious” part of ourselves, we sense the danger locations such as this wharf poses, even though it may often be imperceptible to our conscious mind.
This subconscious “spiritual unease” is something that can accumulate in the way of negative energy, to be experienced somewhere if not healed, where I feel those in the council can make a different choice, solving this and bringing much more safety and sense of conscious and subconscious ease to those who wander along our beautiful waterfront.
With a vote to change the situation and protect the vulnerable and unwary, like I say, the council can be absolved of all karmic responsibility knowing they had done everything within the realms of commonsense, safety, and ability to protect the lives of others. If someone else were to die, the consequences for those who didn’t want anything changed, and voted “no”, would most likely be significant.
Much love,
Jason
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