Connor Sharp

@Bridgetpee @RichardHills_ Great strategy when *checks notes* you are literally in government lmfao

@RichardHills_ ‘New Zealand is in the shit’ is a strategy apparently

All new candidates for the current government parties seem to have as a vision is “LaBoUr bAD” and then *crickets*… You want to run for parliament but have no real idea of why or what you want to do apart from stop the other guys? Really?

Not often you see a red pōhutukawa in the winter!

Anyways as I said last year: greaterauckland.org.nz/2025/11/06/thi…

Reaping (just a FEW): greaterauckland.org.nz/2024/09/17/mak… greaterauckland.org.nz/2024/12/09/sim… greaterauckland.org.nz/2025/06/30/nzt… greaterauckland.org.nz/2025/11/06/thi…

It's actually unreal how much Simeon Brown fucked up the last 3 years of transport in NZ. Sowing: greaterauckland.org.nz/2024/03/05/the…

Chris Bishop has been left to clean up Simeon Brown's mess. My piece on the backdown today:

Substantial transport plan reprioritisation announced by Chris Bishop today. Major and long-coming concession that RoNS will not be built as previously promised. Read about the new pipeline of transport projects here: businessdesk.co.nz/article/infras…

If you were hoping for a view from the bridge today, you’d be mist-aken.

@zhuoyanakl this makes sense

@_ConnorSharp some suggestion on the grapevine that it needs to time with fortnightly AOR shift rotations, which would narrow it down to just 16/08, 30/08, and 13/09.

this sure seems like a specific kind of train station activation you would want to run as the CRL opens... noting the september 25th end date of it

@sands659 Thanks for going and presenting!

I had a nice time today at the Albert-Eden board public input meeting, thanks @_ConnorSharp for letting me know about it and standing up for young people.

Internal documents show multiple tiers of staff at MSD are being assessed on whether they keep emergency housing grants below the government's targets, and threatened with performance management if they don't. Watch here: youtube.com/watch?v=kD3vzL…

What's really fun is the fact they are no longer proactively release board minutes, is stated clearly on their website!

NZTA is also the same organisation whose Executive Leadership Team decided to stop proactively releasing it's board minutes and papers to the public. A decision which, when asked directly by MPs at scrutiny week, NZTA's Chief Executive was apparently unaware of...

@damonlynch @JonTurnerNZ Yeah this is why we need a public entity able to do value capture and transit orientated development. Self funding (profiting even) way to build rapid transit in our cities!

@_ConnorSharp @JonTurnerNZ I kid you not the most recent B1M video noted Hong Kong has a superior model to that of Western countries because profits from land value increases after new public transport infrastructure is built are not privatised, but instead poured back into improving public transport

CRL opening and landlords are going to absolutely decimate the surrounding communities by trying to cash in - this from the Rosalia's guy on closing

Heres Auckland Councils high level assessment of Warkworth to Te Hana against strategic outcomes from a couple of years ago. Notice how WW2TH is very very red under 'Quality Compact Growth' Almost like Council DOESN'T WANT GROWTH IN GREENFIELDS like Wellsford????

There are arterial roads in Auckland that have more traffic than this part of State Highway 1

I love when NZTA says that Warkworth to Te Hana should be four laned because of traffic growth This is the level of traffic growth needed to justify it under the 2019 business case (extremely heroic assumptions) And this would lead to 6 total lanes between Te Hana and Warkworth