Researcher @MasseyUni, Housing 🏘️ & Transport 🚌 Musician 🎶 and Aviation Enthusiast✈️
Auckland, New Zealand
Joined November 2011
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Community housing providers and iwi have supported 100s of Kiwis into healthy, secure housing and home ownership through PHO programmes across the motu.
My new article in @ConversationEDU argues these schemes deserve ongoing policy and funding support.
theconversation.com/is-socia…
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This is a turning bay on SH16 built as apart of NZTA's Brigham Creek to Waimauku project. There are 4 like this within 2km.
NZTA went to court twice to defend compulsorily acquiring land to build these turning bays.
All are unused.
Why? Simeon Brown. Let me explain. 🧵
ALT Unused turning bay on SH16 which was apart of the Brigham Creek to Waimauku project.
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In West Auckand I attended three Anzac day services today. There were Labour MPs at each of them. There were no National MPs at any of them.
rnz.co.nz/news/political/593…
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BREAKING 🚨: FIFA has announced that, ahead of the 2034 Saudi World Cup, Crown Prince MBS will receive a newly created “FIFA Human Rights and Upholding Journalism” Prize.
Why is it so hard for governments to deliver walking and cycling infrastructure, despite ambitious plans for mode shift?
Our new open access paper explores this question through a case study of neighbourhood redevelopment in Aotearoa New Zealand. 🧵
We found a big disconnect: strategies promote active travel, but bureaucracy and fragmented funding slow delivery.
The good news? Trusted relationships and informal collaboration help practitioners navigate these systems.
But real mode shift will require more than just goodwill. It needs formal integration between land use and transport planning.
Read the full, free article here 👇
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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To be clear, you're calling for a New Jersey-born bishop to be deported because you don't like that she exercised her First Amendment right by delivering a sermon in accordance with her faith imploring Trump to show empathy to people?
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Disturbing to read: #NZ “Government to change free speech rules for universities”. In democracies, universities should uphold academic freedom & shouldn’t be tightly regulated by govts. Issues of who speaks, when, & where on campus are for univs to decide: rnz.co.nz/news/political/537…
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Reducing speed limits in the country's biggest city has just won Auckland Transport a global road safety award in London.
1news.co.nz/2024/12/11/at-wi…
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Hitting the last three words in the headline
The recent killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan has brought renewed attention to the escalating costs of protecting top executives. trib.al/4GUNGGX
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Toitū te Tiriti.
Tātou tātou e
#ToituteTiriti #HikoiMoTeTiriti
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Unemployment data out today - it rose to 4.8%. Many people might be trying to tell you that's better than expected - and so things are okay. A closer look at the data shows otherwise. There are 29,000 more people unemployed since this government took office. A 🧵
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The richest man in the world:
is one of the biggest political donors in the world.
and one of the biggest government contractors in the world.
while owning one of the biggest social media platforms in the word.
While warning about a cabal of elites ruining the world.
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"In cities, there are enough cameras in some zones that many drivers give up trying to game the system. When enough drivers default to the limit, even those willing to take ticket risk tend to slow. Over time new habits form and the old speeds may feel too fast."
How São Paulo Cut Traffic Deaths by a Third Overnight usa.streetsblog.org/2024/10/…
