Nicolas Reid

Well when you have the likes of HoTC campaigning on how terrible the city is and how the businesses have all failed and a nightmare to drive to, etc, it's no wonder some people believe it

I saw people on Reddit claiming this must be Ai generated, because the CBD is dead and there’s no parking and it’s just full of homeless etc 🤦‍♂️

Any cat owner knows they are capable of teleportation and bilocation.

More to the point roos *can't* move like that. They can't move one foot then the other, only both at the same time.

People who say this are using the term light rail to mean oll timey streetcars/trams, not actual light rail like LA has.

The red loop is neither one way or alternating half frequency… it’s full frequency both ways, with double frequency south of Newmarket as far as Otahuhu… but they’ve decided to hide that information from the public for some reason.

Ever see an underground station that looks like it was built to survive a direct hit from an atomic bomb?

Well this one was!

Where did 8000 passengers go? The latest forecasts for $5.5b City Rail Link The initial capacity is lower than earlier forecasts of 27,000 passengers.

For anyone like Orsman worried about “only” 19,000 people an hour using the city rail link at peak, just note that’s equivalent to double what the northern, northwestern and southern motorways *combined* can deliver to the city centre. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/aucklands...

Two billion would do it!

2.5 hours is an average of about 88km/h. That’s probably what it should be, but not what it would be if they ran it tomorrow.

Any indication on how much budget they’ve allocated to this? Nothing a lazy half billion wouldn’t fix.

How bout a water fountain that’s a skylight for the station below?!

We should call it the taniwhunnel in honour of Horotiu.

Because cars

Average occupancy will drop below one person per vehicle.

Nothing funny about at Australian calling you mate, they’re deadly serious.

Proposed 2017 Congestion Free Network for Tāmaki Makaurau from GreaterAuckland

@greaterauckland.bsky.social’s 2017 Congestion Free Network. 8 years ago.

What could have been…😔

Fun thing is you get a different size and shape glass depending on the kind of beer you order. Festbeir in a 1l Krug, Ale in 0.5l, Pils comes in 300ml glasses and if you mistakenly order a Kölsch you’ll only get a mercifully small 200ml serving.

Say what you like about German cuisine, they sure do have a competitive meat-bread ratio.

The correct translation to English is nyaha or nuh-uh.

My guess is a level crossing removal done as part of the a20 construction.

A lot. I heard the opex on the waterview tunnel is $30m a year, so this could be $100m a year?

In this article, I make a not-entirely-serious case for ripping out Spaghetti Junction in Auckland, replacing it with a motorway tunnel, and redeveloping new city streets and neighbourhoods above it instead.

www.linkedin.com/pulse/should...

“You’re literally peeling the backbone out of the country and setting a terrible precedent,” Zant said.”

Guy needs to learn what words like “literally” mean if he’s going to convince a court of anything.

He just had some leftover elbow skin that needed to be tucked in somewhere

A few dozen bikes is hardly a failure of public transport, that’s not even one bus load of people. Uni has like 80% PT modeshare!

It’s just that private vehicles take up a lot of space (cars more so obvs).

Yeah the 941 not being frequent is a big gap on the north shore network, 94 was supposed to be the whole way around in the original plan, giving two solid frequent corridors across town.

That’s sorta the idea. A small number of frequent main routes, ideally only one per corridor. Local routes do the coverage. Eg 83 frequent between Smales and takapuna goes direct.

The 856 is the ‘designated local coverage route’, it’s specifically designed to give direct front door access to the hospital from the east coast bays and takapuna, while the main routes don’t.

Late summer in February-March is the best weather. I’d recommend two weeks at least, the jet lag and flight times are tough and it’s a surprisingly big country.

Careful, whenever anyone proposes building a tower on this site NZ goes into recession.