Hill Street queues
I was hoping through the letters to the editor I could promote my book Hill Street Queues. The book follows my true-life experience of marrying my childhood sweetheart, having two children and six grandchildren, all while queuing to get to Hill Street. Netflix has already shown an interest in making this a true-life drama if I can introduce some zombies into the story. Auckland Transport managers were reluctant in the beginning to be part of this story, which I can fully understand, imagine the utter confusion to them when the director says “action”. As 2021 is the 100th year celebration of the first and only design of the Hill Street intersection, we should acknowledge that it was an English touring comedian that designed it on the back of a napkin in a local hostelry after being stuck in traffic there. The architect was Benny Hill, it was suggested the intersection should be named after him as this has been by far one of his best jokes. Spoiler alert: my b