Perfection from Japan: ‘shako shomeisho’ Short version: no garage for your car, no licence for your car: Goodbye on-street parking chaos Longer version 👇 www.parkingreformatlas.org/parking-refo...

Interesting how transport companies use roads. Where they wouldn't make the money if the rail was upgraded. And the New Zealand economy would thrive if we had rail but shrivel if we hock ourselves to overseas fossil fuels and vehicles. www.talaria.fyi/p/nz4lanehig...

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It is official: I was handed my redundancy papers today. Unless I take redeployment I finish with Waikato on December 6.

In New Zealand we throw 'dildos' at Ministers In the US they throw sandwiches at Federal agents en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waitang...

To do before Monday: Brush up on the following 1) Schedule 1 of the RMA 2) Section 82 of the RMA 3) Read the NPS-UD again 4) Read PC120 again (4000 pages that one) 5) Dig up my outgoing organisation's submission to the NPS UD Why? Interview Monday!

Perfection from Japan: ‘shako shomeisho’ Short version: no garage for your car, no licence for your car: Goodbye on-street parking chaos Longer version 👇 www.parkingreformatlas.org/parking-refo...

A kereru About one of 4 in that tree Can hear the sodding before you see them Much like the B52 hence why both are the BUFF Big Ugly Flying Fuck defying aerodynamics and gravity when Airborne

That's NZ, Scottish, and Aussie bsky fucked

Who is up for the challenge and massive opportunity in NYC?

In today’s NZ Herald

As Ponsonby loses their minds over parking while Manukau just gets on with it (it is facing the same parking strategy refreshment including a new one way street) a reminder that it time to RETHINK PARKING, and TAME THAT TRAFFIC for the benefit of EVERYONE 👇

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RUDE indeed

It needs to be backed up by all day bus lanes though which Auckland Transport is still far too slow in rolling out

BUT THE SPREADSHEET SAYS NO In 2012 it took us 12 minutes from Papakura to Manukau By 2021 when we moved, it took 30mins on a good day, 45 minutes on a shocker. Same route & departure times. And all that was missing? An all day bus lane along the Great South Road Which we still don't have in 2025

Cities can be green by following some basic Nature Based Solutions A straight forward start is adopting the 3-30-300 rule 3 trees seen from your vantage point 30% Urban Forest Canopy which London is at 34% 300 metres from nearest park or green infrastructure

Voters in communities as diverse as Yampa Valley, Colorado and Kalamazoo, Mich. all said yes to public transportation on Tuesday, approving billions in new funding for light rail, buses and more as well as establishing at least once new transit agency.

An education lesson really needs to be hammered into the skulls of business owners on why paid parking is done. It is a demand management tool for when demand for parking spaces goes over 85% allowing regular turn over which helps businesses www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland/...

A kereru About one of 4 in that tree Can hear the sodding before you see them Much like the B52 hence why both are the BUFF Big Ugly Flying Fuck defying aerodynamics and gravity when Airborne

How do we not already have a sovereign wealth fund? Our Tall Poppy Syndrome so bad that we don't wanna invest in our local small businesses? We'd rather become landlords of a few properties for a decade or so before pawning it off for a profit? And we wonder how the economy got buggered? #nzpol

You have a Board Chair ill qualified for the role, and a CE that was promoted well beyond station Result? Complete and utter shit show that was so easily avoidable

They did in Auckland with the Unitary Plan (Mostly)

To do before Monday: Brush up on the following 1) Schedule 1 of the RMA 2) Section 82 of the RMA 3) Read the NPS-UD again 4) Read PC120 again (4000 pages that one) 5) Dig up my outgoing organisation's submission to the NPS UD Why? Interview Monday!

This is Eric does his work This case points out fiddle with the Discount Rates and oh hello Roads of National Significance start getting BCRs over 1 where traditionally they would not newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/04/b...

That MD-11 disaster with the number 1 engine detaching is skirting rather close to the DC10 disaster at Chicago (AA191) with the pylon failing and the engine detaching We await the NTSB report www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHW6...

#StationNews: Crews are installing the train station passenger shelters at Drury & Paerātā stations. They are Auckland Transport's mid-size bus shelters. These shelter designs were shown in the station renders. Spotted by @ifuckinghatethe394 on the ScootFoundation Discord.

Zohran Mamdani polled +40% on men under 30. So we wasted all that time on all those think pieces about how we need a Joe Rogan for the left, when what we actually needed were *policies* for the left.

A reminder especially to my fellow Planners that residential does NOT belong along large arterial roads. Those roads are there to move people and freight efficiently. Commercial, Industry and transit sure but not residential. I dont even do this (much) in #CitiesSkylines2 voakl.net/2025/10/13/l...

Better get those inter city trains going Wait OH OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH

In today’s NZ Herald #nzpolitics

I got Marsden Point going in 7.0, but it was pretty bare bones. 7.1 I will actually drop to site specific level for some detailing on the Port. Meanwhile I got the new road/bridge connection established to service the southern and eastern industrial complexes, and the City Centre! #CitiesSkylines2

If you look back to the rise of the Reich it was the upper and elites falling into Fascism not the working class (who ironically supported more social democratic and socialism tendencies)

Introducing Marsden Point with new DLC | Manukau Ranges Part 7.0 | #citiesskylines2 Bridges and Ports DLC gets a work out with functional port! I also prattle Urban Geography concepts The Bridges and Ports DLC (along with the patch) is out from ‪Colossal Order and it time to get port building in…

SUBMIT TODAY ON AUCKLAND’S FUTURE: PLAN CHANGE 120 (Auckland) OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS! Public Service Announcement for Auckland residents: Submissions for Plan Change 120 (PC120) are open until next month, leading up to the Hearings PC120 serves as a trial for how Unitary and District Plans may need…

It also shows NZ can campaign on Fully Funded Public Services Fully Funded Public Works Exile the Far Right and its enablers And get this nation back again

FRESH POST: @connorsharp.bsky.social's recent op-ed on Simeon Brown's legacy for transport in our city... ...gains extra relevance with the minister now attempting to personally redesign the (not yet completed) Rā Hihi/ Reeves Road flyover, on the fly. 🤨 www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2025/11/06/t...

A reminder about the Transportation Doom Loop 👇

NZI have no place in our society at all Need to send them packing out of Wellington once and for all AND have ALL LOBBYISTS of which NZI is go through the front door with the public in and out of Parliament, signing in and out as any person would List is publicly published daily for all to see

I'll vote for whoever sets a target to get youth unemployment back below 10% in one year. I can't do ten years of centrist, round the next corner drivel. Waiting for businesses to get desperate enough to give young, disengaged or disabled people a job is fkng stupid. There is loads that needs doing.

Cities can be green by following some basic Nature Based Solutions A straight forward start is adopting the 3-30-300 rule 3 trees seen from your vantage point 30% Urban Forest Canopy which London is at 34% 300 metres from nearest park or green infrastructure

Vancouver’s urban tree canopy, and the “kissing canopies” over the streets the mature trees create, are one of our city’s most important assets. Cooling, cleaning, beautifying and strengthening the city while integrating urban life with nature for livability. Great pics via @traffictrish.bsky.social

In Christchurch which I thought it was booming Oh wait Housing economy with bits stuck to the side Am I right @bernardchickey.bsky.social

Something smells here If Tainui couldn't get a venture going, Willis certainly isnt newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/05/u...

Mamdani continuing to shatter chains and ceilings as he builds his transition team

Banish the pundits Waste of time, air and pixels And they contribute nothing to society

They are no better than the Ministry of Propaganda and Enlightenment from a certain Reich Treat them as such and banish them as such newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/06/w...

Yo Hipkins and Labour Stop being Centrist and stop chasing votes from the Right They are never going to support you and you just piss off everyone else

Welcome to induced demand All you do is move the queue down the road and why NZTA has never widened the Southern Motorway Bridge at Mt Wellington

A reminder for New Zealand, that National is very anti urban and has been since its inception in 1936