'Unaffiliated Individual' - NZ Infrastructure Commission The Bard of @GreaterAKL Officially more popular than a Real Housewife of Auckland Views my own

Aoteraroa, New Zealand
Joined December 2009
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"I'd really like to be recognised for my journalism outside of New Zealand" *monkey's paw curls*
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City is DEAD again.
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Made this graph the other day to get an idea of how ungodly expensive the current crop of RoNS are based on Infrastructure Commission research. Compare the cost per lane km, with some 50th percentile benchmarks. Red is post 2023 roads in NZ, yellow pre 2022, and green OECD.
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Find yourself someone who loves you as much as the National Party loves sinking billions of taxpayer dollars into unnecessary roading projects 🥰
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Good to see Greens recommit to Light Rail in Auckland Hopefully Labour aren’t too embarrassed by their previous failure to campaign on it again - the need is still there, it’s still a popular project, and there’s a popular mayor keen to champion it
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Congestion at peak times across all of Auckland vs Mill Road Instead of pulling high-capacity transport infrastructure through core chokepoints, we're upgrading random uncongested rural roads Very detached from the lived experience of Aucklanders!
JUST ANNOUNCED: The next National Government will start construction on Stage One of Mill Road – a Road of National Significance.
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Both major parties have talked at length about the need to win Auckland, but it's so hard to connect their policies/actions to this goal Presumably things like Mill Rd are cooked up by some mix of tarmac-sniffers like Simeon + a bunch of Welly advisors who have never been here?
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There's very clear 4 important investment areas for transport in Auckland: - NW corridor - Inner south - Mangere - Harbour crossing If you're throwing billions of dollars at projects that don't address these, you're just wasting taxpayer money
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Simeon Brown kicking off the National Party campaign launch
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Hell yeah we do!!
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i love this cause it doesn't even feel like an ad or whatever. like k road is just excited and wants the world to know it
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Crl opening ceremony speechs ranked: 1. AGGS Head Girl Ryvah Cooper 2. Chris Bishop 3. Woke Wayne 4. Christopher Luxon 5. Drunk Uncle Wayne . . . . Bottom of the barrel: Whatever Winston's spiel was
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Will be riding a train through Central Auckland in 7 days
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Good to see that the former Mayor for the Far North is advocating for sensible spending in his backyard I wonder what he’s up to these days
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Chris Hipkins' promise to not raise fuel taxes over the next three years is irresponsible. But National strains credulity when making this point, given it made the same silly promise three years ago:
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Wonder why the transport fund is essentially bankrupt... Politicians refusing to raise FED/RUC, while slamming on top giant overscoped motorway projects
Chris Hipkins just upped his commitment to not raise fuel taxes on January 1 to a commitment to not raise them for three years.
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If Labours not going to cancel Warkworth to Te Hana to do this (all of the advice says the govt needs to raise FED/RUC to afford that atrocious project), then this is just a promise to use hospital and school money to fund Nationals dumb roads
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