scoot!

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?"

@urbanistfromwhk That’s not Meola Reef?

@zhuoyanakl @Tiare_MP I don’t. What’s the ballpark dollar figure?

@Tiare_MP do u know how expensive those things are

The Spinoff should commission its own polls

A sustained period where the leaders of both major parties are lacklustre leaders & personally contemptible seems really bad for the medium-term health of NZ's democracy

@JoelMacManus Nats have a backup Chris

Which party is more likely to have a leader on election day named Chris?

@urbanistfromwhk Just Saturdays?

the world's Tauranga

@RebeccaJEmm hope you guys loved it

The Matthews women are off to The Beths!

@statssstudent dresssmart*

There is no worse designed building than Onehunga Dressmart

Free Dick Move gig at Flying Nun on K These guys fucking rock

Coolest lamp I’ve ever seen

Wayne Brown: “If you have a look, if you visit Parnell, there's a multi-storey apartments everywhere, same with Ponsonby where I live, I'm in a multi-storey apartment as we speak so they're just sensible things make it into a nice city." - rnz.co.nz/news/national/…

hard to beat Brown Stuff For Dinner

@unimpotent @dan_brunskill I guess another difference is that a hairdresser business would be more resilient to swings in the price of crude oil

@unimpotent @dan_brunskill one of the big differences is that bailing out an oil refinery costs a lot more

@foxcar_joey Big fire

Hey folks, anyone know what's going on with oil prices? Hard to get any information on it.

@PeterByardDavis Worth noting however that contrary to popular belief, the 6th Labour Govt did also escalate the scale of roading commitments, mostly from continuing the existing RONS commitments and adding the "NZ Upgrade Programme" on top of it

@PeterByardDavis I'm referring to when the 6th Labour Govt introduced a temporary fuel tax cut and backfilled the lost revenue to the National Land Transport Fund from re-prioritised spending from the general fund

Might be reasonable to cut fuel taxes in response to the oil crisis, but needs to be coupled to an explicit decision to defer roading investment that those taxes would have paid for!

@econoadabsurdam Don’t disagree but we’re not gonna move to road user charges nor build an extensive toll road network nor introduce congestion charging in any major centre nor do priced on-street parking at-scale before the oil crisis starts biting households in a big way

@ScootFoundation I think a flat percentage tax on fuel is a very poor way of funding roads and tweaks on that starting point are very suboptimal

@econoadabsurdam The issue with 2 is that with the *existing* crown loans the fund has already overextended itself, with the consensus being that treasury will probably default. In which case 2 is just 1 with more steps

@econoadabsurdam Your alternatives are: 1. don’t do user pays 2. have the crown extend a loan to the transport fund which at a future point in time it’ll manage by deferring investment or increasing costs