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It's dumb that our debates about cities are like
"should our cities just have single family housing or should there be be townhouses too?"
when the contest of ideas should be
"should our cities be solarpunk or cyberpunk?"
at least it would be somewhat amusing if (after 3 elections of desperately trying) Opportunity finally make it into Parliament only to not be Kingmaker
> Lebanese grocer is packed
> Bestie has a queue
> Stuck behind slow walkers on the footpath
CRL is ruining the neighbourhood!!
auckland spring being super glum during the weekdays but beautiful on the weekends
she just like me fr fr
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Replying to @ScootFoundation
It all comes back to an exciting Auckland that can keep its young people here and attract talent from elsewhere
Seriously, the rates cap could have an underrated and unintended bad downstream effect for the aging population problem
Basically impossible to have an international supply-chain for concrete, meaning its very hard to scale supply in response to demand
So every time govt promises a road in the middle of nowhere they're just precluding more productive uses like office buildings, apartments, etc.
Replying to @henrycooke
something i learnt today: aggregate is so heavy and so low-value that it doubles in cost every 30km you transport it.
so having a quarry this close to urban AKL in Hunua is very handy.
People overrate superannuation changes as a fix for the aging population
Any reduction to public transfers from working age to retirees will likely be somewhat balanced out by an increase in private transfers
Mass migration is the only policy in this space that actually works
You may find reasons to support this on distributional grounds, but the net effect on total transfers between workers and dependents would not shift that much overall
If the public money going into it is:
1. Widen SH1 (0.6b)
2. Build three new train stations (0.5b)
3. Build the Mill Road parallel state highway (6bn+?)
Will Drury be the most well-serviced (by trunk infrastructure) greenfields housing development ever?
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Replying to @ScootFoundation
Was there yesterday. All weekend popping. Disaster since we made the place more walkable and people friendly aye.
rare trip Across The Bridge
Hurstmere popping off, revitalisation a massive success
cc @RichardHills_
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Has a televised debate ever affected how you voted in an election?
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249 votes • Final resultsHas a televised debate ever affected how you voted in an election?
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249 votes • Final resultsFind 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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Replying to @blogboynick
seems like such an obvious political move to use the momentum of CRL to start talking about the next thing














