Trump must be impeached immediately. This is not how a democracy functions.

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.

New dump of files on the failed “light rail” project. www.transport.govt.nz/area-of-inte...

Another under the radar project recently opened. The Strand - SH16 cycleway (and T2/HV lane). 🤫

A rare and fascinating close reading of what was said in the NZ Parliament about the Bondi attack. Reading carefully from prepared remarks, PM Chris Luxon referred to “mass, uncontrolled immigration”… …drawing an off-the-cuff rebuke from Labour’s Chris Hipkins: #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

womp womp. Performative culture war policy doesn’t last long. www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

It’s super inspiring that people look to Auckland and NZ for successful examples of housing reform. thespinoff.co.nz/society/16-1...

Public open day for a 3km cycleway between Māngere and Māngere Bridge in south Auckland.

One of the obvious impacts of Govt not investing into a downturn is tanking taxes (= higher deficits). Countless examples across the world, but sadly most of our reckonomics commentariat are small island caveman monetarists, so, prices going up? Ug. Throw kiwis on the dole, ug, crash economy. [🧵1/n]

Holy shit San Francisco! 60% of the city rezoned, most places exceeding (!!) SB 79. The most restrictive of these allows attached 4–8 story apt buildings with no cap on the # of homes inside, no parking mandates, and by-right streamlined approval. Movement racking up the municipal wins today 🏆🏆🏆

Housing growth expected in central areas with latest zoning plans. knowledgeauckland.org.nz/media/xxfhos...

More Homes is hosting YIMBY drinks on Wednesday in Auckland for a US delegation looking into housing reform @cayimby.bsky.social and @metroabundance.bsky.social

Loved seeing Te Komititanga full of people celebrating the lighting of Te Manaaki, Auckland’s Giant Christmas Tree. Hard to believe a few years ago this civic space was a four lane road. It’s much better now and it is used by tens of thousands more people each day. I 💚❤️ AKL

Incredibly exciting electrification revolution is happening right now. overcast.fm/+AAoT_nRAn40

Details of traffic changes to pedestrianise Oxford Street haveyoursay.tfl.gov.uk/oxford-stree...

Super interesting speech by Transport Minister Bishop seemingly distancing himself from the roadsfest they ran on. www.beehive.govt.nz/speech/speec...

Sorry you had to wait 10 months for your cancer surgery – a politician needed to save 10 minutes getting to the airport.

Auckland’s PT *network* “easily the best in Australia” 🔫 thespinoff.co.nz/society/17-1...

Kind of wonderful to now have mainstream voices saying the things we spent so long being ridiculed for claiming: www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

Congestion pricing moves forward with bi-partisan support. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

More Ws emerging. Mercury Lane former car sewer now mostly pedestrianised.

Momentum is gaining momentum. The railroad infrastructure framework developed by @ndhapple.bsky.social has gone bicoastal. A new report from @calelectricrail.org shows how level boarding and electrified trains would transform transportation in SoCal. benjaminschneider.substack.com/p/how-southe...

Australia: More Homes, better cities. Letting more people live where they want. (Image of how zoning constrains housing close to the centres of capital cities.) Link grattan.edu.au/wp-content/u...

Nice!

They're calling it Woke 2.

We’ve opened a trial version of this web app. Test the e-bike range, see the gaps in rapid transit, etc. census-sampler.mrcagney.works (user and login are “public”)

The ol spend $.5 billion to move the bottleneck further downstream trick www.times.co.nz/business/at-...

Subsidise e-bikes and home batteries !

Australia news live: home battery subsidy helped add 50% to capacity in four months as Labor hails ‘solar nation’

Never gonna happen. “Combined, that’s $18.2-22.1 billion – which is incredible for a road that for most of its length carries only 10-15,000 vehicles a day.” www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2025/10/21/r...

E-bikes as rapid transit. There is a sweet spot, 8-14km from the city centre, where gaps in the mass rapid transit network and slow buses can be filled by e-bikes. Map = 45 minute e-bike travel time.

15 months to get Stage 2 of Collie Battery in Australia going. 👀 Combined capacity = 560MW. esdnews.com.au/neoens-colli...

It's 2025 and our economic model is still reliant on maintaining a decent bufferstock of unemployed people. This model was *designed* to ensure that employers have the upper hand (and labour could be uberised). Govt distract us from this reality by bashing beneficiaries and abdicating responsibility

Report “littered with errors including three nonexistent academic references” www.afr.com/companies/pr...

NEW STARTER PACK! This time I’m hoping to encourage and support global urbanists from OUTSIDE North America here on Bluesky, so hopefully this will help! Who’ve I missed? Just joined? Let me know! I’ll keep updating, so please keep checking & sharing this pack! And let’s try using #GlobalUrbanists.

It's difficult to imagine Trump ruling any country other than America. If he did, he would be an international pariah. But because he is the President of the United States, foreign leaders are forced to pretend that he isn't an absolute lunatic. It's really something

Morning rush-hour near London's Oval station. Trains pass underground every few minutes and there's a continuous flood of bicycles, but still there's one lane of gridlocked traffic. Your city will always have exactly as much gridlock as it makes room for.

The most underappreciated issue in urbanism is the Anglosphere’s transit construction cost problem. It’s not just that we’re spending too much money on any particular project. It’s that we could be getting *much more transit* for the *same amount of money we’re currently spending*.

Demand for housing in Auckland. knowledgeauckland.org.nz/publications...

This is Oxford Street, completely transformed & traffic-free. It was fantastic to see community spirit in the heart of the West End. By removing traffic, this created the space to stride, stroll and explore. This street is for everyone to enjoy with music, art, food and fun.

Central Auckland houses condemned after the biblical 2023 flood are starting to be removed

No mention of overall costs, failed PPP, ongoing construction liabilities, just bEniFitS. The sorry state of media covering infrastructure in NZ.

Removal of parking mandates and zoning restrictions in Lower Hutt Wellington led to a boom in housing including council owned rentals. www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

One of the key elements of many European circulation plans is the use of a combination of strategies to create a large "no through traffic" core Pedestrian and transit-only streets are complemented with loop-y patterns of circulation in isolated pockets, sending traffic back to through itineraries.

>Sydney’s CBD Light Rail project exemplified this type of risk-aversion, where guideway standards “sourced to America… that would befit a coal train” were interpreted as hard rules, excessively applied to a surface tramway – identified as a key driver of the project’s high cost

Zurich. “ The key to developing an urban space that is attractive to everyone lies in the organization of traffic.” 💯 www.stadt-zuerich.ch/de/planen-un...

Good on NZ’s bipartisan housing reforms. www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

This is super interesting and well explained. The incredible opportunity of speeding up existing train lines by electrification and better stations. youtu.be/Qe10JA9utOw?...

“At all levels of government, they want to promote housing supply,” Rehm said, adding that as demand slows and supply increases, the perception that housing is a safe investment has slipped. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...