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Just like shared paths - anything as long as we don’t disrupt cars - just have cyclists and pedestrians fight it out.

Yea it’s absolute chaos, cars parked blocking lanes, way too many people for there to be cars there

No, they are incapable of thinking more than 1 step beyond the initial ‘obvious solution’. Why hold shitty companies accountable when we can just put the burden and privacy issues on the public instead?

Yeah we are here for the cycling and house prices (and weather!), but in 10-20 years it will be worse than Auckland for traffic as there is zero conversation around the future. Just sprawl and roads. LOTS of infill housing a 15-20 minute cycle though (but all lacking the ability to store bikes…)

Yeah, at best reassuring that it’s not just where I am

Every post of yours like this I wonder if we work at the same place

Hopefully some proper barriers going on on East st?

(So yes, magical pixies)

Market efficiency will pay for it all!

Perfect temperature for standing outside looking at clouds

They have been there since the building was redeveloped, what an odd move

Found a better photo of the scale of it!

First time I ever saw ‘real’ bike storage was in Asakusa

A fur seal has delighted Christchurch passersby by finding lunch in a suburban neighbourhood - kilometres from the coast. ⁠
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Residents did a double-take as the NZ fur seal feasted on an eel in the Ōpāwaho Heathcote River in St Martins.⁠
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“They can really pop up anywhere if there’s water they can…

We need an international expert on urban spiral staircases to come and figure out how to make and keep this as amazing as it really should be. Shouldn’t feel grotty, should feel amazing. But how!?

Read as ‘we are hard at work at getting a pipeline of work for you’ (fuck those greenies amirite?)’ and ‘we can’t afford any of this’

How much panel removal needed? My aftermarket CarPlay unit has the mic on the left (for LHD cars) and it’s atrocious- I thought about wiring a mic in (it has an input!) but fuck that, I dont want to talk on the phone anyway. I should do the reversing camera someday too…

Such a lag in nz prices, barely scraping 600USD at the budget end.

The problem is that ‘the left’ have and continue to say it’s the same thing, when there are obviously nuances here, with the long and short is that any nuance the left refuses to engage with will be used by the right and they will get away with it again.

I ordered one from a store in Hamilton last year, and by chance Action Bicycle club in Christchurch had them, so there is an importer, lots of stores just didn’t have them listed on their websites so I reckon so call around! Quick google for ‘Crane Rotary Bell’ or ‘Crane riten bell’ get hits!

You can find crane bells in a few stores in nz, lovely sound and well made!

I’m still too “scared” to use my phone when filling up, fear of burning to death cuts really digs in deep!

This is great, a steep hill was always a terrible shared path, and should improve the pink path connection visibility!

Siiiigh

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The level of cronyism in the private sector is insane, far beyond ‘who you know’ to get a foot in the door - just uncritical hiring of mates. Seen so many times: new Cxx comes in, 3-6 months later restructure happens and new leadership filled with mates and org gets set back 3 years (rinse/repeat)

Oh wow! I think every balcony plant from 2019 died or got abandoned in one of the subsequent 4 moves

So I want to watch a 95 min video that will inevitably infuriate me? Yes, but also no?

Ayeeeee If a plant is that fussy we are not meant to be.

Hah this is the wrong order for half our plants. Water less = dead, water more = dead, less sun = dead, more sun = dead. I don’t need these high maintenance plants in my life!

Every cal I find makes the payoff period wildly long, even more so with battery and without an EV. Am I missing something or do the calculators suck? I’ve never lived in a house for more than 5 years (not on purpose, just.. life) so 10-20 year returns seem pointless :/