Tim Robinson

I have been developing retail properties and groceries for 25 years. This week, an interview with me appeared in Germany's leading real estate newspaper, and it will be republished (🤞) next week in the leading business newspaper.

The topic: The bicycle is the future of downtown retail.

My unpopular opinion: those of us advocating for non-car travel need to stop apologetically saying "I know not everybody can cycle!" Obviously not everyone can cycle, but that's also true of driving. I fear we're just giving our opponents' attack lines legitimacy by shouting them out for free

Independent supermarket Plenty Foods hopes to challenge duopoly in Upper Hutt A last-minute database crash couldn't stall the opening of Plenty Foods in Brewtown.

Cool to see a new local, independent supermarket popping up. The supermarket has a full produce department, butchery, bakery, fish cabinet, a hot cabinet with chickens, a cafe and using local products.

Kiss and Ride is not just an American thing, either -- here's the Swedish wayfinding for it.

Sometimes I see people like 20 tweets deep into an argument with Grok. Like, what are you doing brother? You are trying to win an argument with a vending machine.

Weekend bus lanes on Te Atatū Road please.

Great conversations today, lots of interest.

Here until 11. Lots of early visitors already!

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Bonus: see the plans, walk around the corner to see the first station taking shape. Lots more steel up this week since these photos were taken!
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Come talk to the team, find out more about Te Ara Hauāuru Northwest Busway as we head towards lodging consents. See you at Westgate library this morning if you want to be the first to see up to date plans, visuals. More events this week: createsend.com/t/t-66B52285...

Grattan does so much good stuff. 🤩

BIG NEWS! The BYD Atto 1 is now in New Zealand for $29,990.
If you want a zippy runabout there's no need to bother with clunky old Victorian-era petrol.
And allow me to address the THOUSANDS of trolls over the last 20 years who told me I was dumb and this would never happen:
"𝐈 𝐭𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐨".
😘

Data Journalist - BusinessDesk - NZME Join BusinessDesk as a Data Journalist—break market-moving stories, visualise insights, and set the global benchmark for data-driven reporting.

BusinessDesk has a fantastic (and rare) for a data journalist in New Zealand. The Herald and BusinessDesk are separate publications, but whoever is in this role will work with me on projects like Budget day visualisations 1/2

careers.nzme.co.nz/jobs/6697721...

Using AI for research is a trip.

Ex: Gemini gives me 5 sources, the first 3 don't exist. I Google the titles (to double check they don't exist) & the Google AI summary gives me a complete explanation of the articles that don't exist including "their" key arguments & findings.

Crazy-making.

3 November 2025 saw two new NZ electricity records set: highest daily utility solar power generation (1.6 GWh, enough to make 50 million cups of tea), and the last day of an unprecedented 25-day run of zero coal power.

There will be a lot more records like this to come.

How did I follow this many Canadians and Americans baseball fans?

Fair. Nearly the arctic

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Plus, outstanding area. You familiar with that neck of the woods @nzpom.com?

Photo of the Shibuya River, looking towards where Shibuya Stream is now. This was taken in 2009, from inside the river. Vertical, colour photograph. Some water in the concourse. Reflections of what's above. Tree on the bank above. Buildings tower overhead. It's night. But there's lots of light from the buildings illuminating the scene.

Good morning to you all. Sunny day here in Tokyo, after yesterday's torrential rain. Moodboard made for tomorrow's shoot & sent to client. Images from yesterday's shoot uploaded for client. Off out to run some errands. Then trying to spend time with family.

Have a great day.
Pic details in ALT.
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Posting a photo of Ceausescu’s bathroom for no apparent reason.

Is the area / project completed yet? Visited way back when they were getting started, and their approach really impressed.

Interesting Google experience. Search reported an error; "could not answer query" or similar. I use the search suffix (udm=14) that forces Web results, excluding AI answers. As soon as I typed in DuckDuckGo (no .com ending) Google relinquished and fulfilled search.

Post Office
What Cheer, IA

Hybrid Schmybrid Audio Version The coming scandal about yet another fossil/automotive con job.

I have posted a substack update about the cob job of plug in hybrid petrol cars.
If you can't be bothered to read it, I mean who has time these days, you can listen to me read it for you.
llewellyn.substack.com/p/hybrid-sch...

Bio-based flame retardants for the fire protection of cross-laminated timber in buildings and other applications Research innovation for timber construction could increase the utilization of renewable raw materials in the construction industry.

There are options to make the CLT glue biobased (you want to double check the definition):
derix.de/en/sustainab...
And also biobased fire retardants:
www.wki.fraunhofer.de/en/research-...

power sector ccs: high projections ,low performance

Carbon capture for power stations specifically is just as subject to the overall dynamics of CCS: it never materialises like it's expected to.

Here's a new chart for ya: each blue line is what *should* have happened based on each report's planned state dates.

Black line: what happened

How about it, Watercare? Parnell calling

Heads up peeps, I will be on RNZ Nights tonight just after the 8 o'clock news to discuss Labour's CGT announcement.

#nzpol