'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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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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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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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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Eel
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Yay we have two parents to hold our hands now.
Labour says it will support rates cap bill to first reading. The party very clearly does not want to leave National room to campaign on its big announcements this week.
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I think I'm ok with having a Prime Minister's debate between the two people by far most likely to be PM after the election, but those parties should at least send their deputy leaders to an all-party Deputy PM debate.
How low does the "major parties" polling have to get before media will give up on separate major and minor party debates? Stuff looked at sub-30%, and said "not low enough yet"
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NEW: The Government will on average be paying $290 million a year for 25 years to the Northway consortium, which is building the Warkworth to Te Hana expressway, possibly bringing the total cost on transport coffers to $9 billion.
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good night
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A message from Theo’s daycare teacher. I chose this life 🤣
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What a juxtaposition
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Kinda crazy how many proposals there were for the City Rail Link before it was finally built. I can think of several public transport projects that will probably suffer the same fate before they’re finally built.
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