@foxcar_joey Salty that we've had our dope central library for almost a decade already and it was half the cost
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Modal Joe
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Modal Joe
@joe_cd_
Interested in better cities and transport. More: housing, efficient transport, street trees, land value capture. Less: air pollution, bad subsidies, rent
Christchurch, New Zealand Katılım Kasım 2017
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Not a huge fan of Brookfield's recent behaviour, or a fully trad architecture guy, but this seems like a worse outcome: thepress.co.nz/nz-news/360964…
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Lol of course KiwiRail upgrading signalling on freight locomotives is the thing holding up the start of City Rail Link operations.
greaterauckland.org.nz/2026/01/07/202…
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It tastes identical to milk.
It's lactose-free, but without the weird sweetness from lactase.
And they're doing whey powder.
Precision fermentation is closer than I thought.
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@bmwhocking Interesting, thanks. I'm guessing that's not the case now given where costs have ended up?
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@joe_cd_ It was shown to be cheaper in the NZTA reports.
Given none of the existing systems renwal costs were going to be as cheap as they were 10 years ago.
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I'd say there's a case for a national ticketing system if it's cheaper that each region running their own ticketing, but Motu move is ... not that.
Libertyscott 🇹🇼 🇺🇦 🇰🇷@libertyscott
Motu Move is a dog of a project, an absolute fortune spent on a solution nobody needed, because the previous Government was absolutely obsessed with centralisation of everything. There is literally no need for a single national ticketing platform. 1news.co.nz/2025/12/08/con…
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@foxcar_joey And you want that random appointment time confirmed by email? Impossible, postal only.
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After engaging with health system regularly for the first time in my life over the past couple years, I continue to be surprised by some of the most basic management failures and inefficiencies. I honestly don’t get it.
🦊🚙🦘@foxcar_joey
There is nothing you can do or say to get them to stop bringing you hospital food you don’t want. Literally impossible.
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@StuartBDonovan @EmmaVitz @RichardHills_ @zhuoyanakl Interestingly Christchurch were looking to exclude return trips from free transfers now that Motu Move can differentiate those trips
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Can I use a 2% discount rate to value up my time savings from buying a robot lawnmower?
Asking as a guy sick of mowing lawns.
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@matty_prasad As in the owners rebuilt after the quakes, but a totally different house to the original (99% sure).
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@JG_moves_NZ Oof, pretty bad - especially the Ensors Rd one. We joke going past it how it looks like a bad Brooksfield knock off, it's like free advertising for the superiority of the "real thing"!
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@maclir @GreaterAKL The new discount rates came from treasury! (with some fairly defensible logic behind them, though opinions differ). treasury.govt.nz/information-an…
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@GreaterAKL And what did Tsy really have to say about the change to benefit calculation. This is a fraud being perpetrated on future NZ taxpayers.
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Lol your whole announcement was $1.2b on paperwork, nothing for actual implementation.
NZ National Party@NZNationalParty
While Labour spent billions delivering literally nothing, National is getting on with building the roads New Zealand needs.
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@FrankMcRae To be fair the new discount rates came fairly independently from treasury, but I was surprised how quickly nzta picked them up - makes sense now though.
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@foxcar_joey I'd expect that to play out here too, especially as most would be owner occupied or owned by residential investors? Although maybe the illegal bedroom option puts a floor on rents.
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@foxcar_joey For some similarly-quirky commercial spaces in chch (boxed quarter), it just took a few years of high vacancy rates for the owners to get real about the rent they could expect, and now it's full of interesting stuff and pretty vibrant!
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My new article on One Land Bridge proves conclusively that Wellington is Back on Track (by examining one very specific and dumb commercial development). onelanebridge.substack.com/p/introducing-…
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