Jo Johnson

'It just seems cruel': Councillor shocked by comments after cycling accident Councillor Julie Fairey has become accustomed to abusive comments - but she was still stunned.

The abuse Julie Fairey copped after being HIT BY A CAR is exactly what happens when we treat online harm as background noise. Women in politics bear the brunt, especially women of colour. Until NZ actually regulates platforms properly, this will keep happening #nzpol

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@bikeauckland.bsky.social sometimes it’s the little wins which make the difference 👍😀 adding green cycle-right-of-way markings to this vehicle crossing exit at BP Waterview helps driver awareness and keeps people- and dogs- on bikes safe 🐶🚲 #AklBikeLife

The Reeves Road Flyover is to improve bus reliability, walking and cycling safety, and long-term traffic flow across Pakuranga. Oppose the removal of the planned cycle lane:

https://www.bikeauckland.org.nz/news/oppose-mp-simeon-browns-request-for-a-last-minute-removal-of-a-cycleway-from-pakuranga/

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#BikeAuckland #JoinTheRide #CyclingCommunity #ItsForEveryone #BikeLife #Auckland

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Saw the dots and read the words and thought you meant this game 🤭🤣

As National announces more roads

Laura’s Bunch bike is parked at the Seward Co Op grocery store along with about 6 other bikes of various types - one with a trailer

Does your local grocery store look like this?

If not, it’s probably because:
1) zoning created large distances between housing & stores.
2) the streets between housing & stores are unsafe for biking.
3) there isn’t any/enough bike parking

1/2

Marbecks Record Shop moves online after 90 years in business "Marbeck has been an Auckland icon, and it's another one we're losing.

Yes this is sad 😔 I spent many hours there browsing the racks in the 80s/90s… obviously the same century Beck & Lee are living in- who in their right mind drives to Queens Arcade to pick up a CD? 🤯 #carbrain
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View of the central Copenhagen pedestrian street where it widens into a gorgeous square with fountain

One of the most successful pedestrian streets in the world, the Strøget in Copenhagen, was filled with cars until a 2 year pedestrianization pilot project in 1962. The opposition argued “no cars means no business,” but the street has been a massive retail success, the city’s busiest shopping street.

YouTube video by Evan Edinger I Cycled 2500km in London — Here's How It Changed My Life

WATCH & SHARE: This is very good. A prominent youtuber is actually giddy (but also very thorough in covering the joys, advantages, issues and challenges) about how trying biking for transportation in London has changed his life.

Easy to watch & more convincing probably than 99% of public campaigns.

This community chooses 30km/h - Greater Auckland Meadowbank residents get creative to express the local preference for safer streets, after higher speed limits were imposed on the community.

Meadowbank, Auckland, residents have chosen safer speeds for their streets twice since 2021 – but Simeon Brown's Speed Rule forced faster traffic on them. So they started making their own signs ... www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2025/08/06/t...

People riding bikes in a protected bike lane in downtown Vancouver

It’s REALLY important that #Vancouver’s Downtown Business Association, who were originally against downtown bike-lanes, are now among their most vigourous supporters, because of the evidence that they are better for downtown business than any street parking they replaced.

Bike-lanes mean business.

Bikes parked outside cinema

Another day another #nziff movie 🎥🚲😊 #HollywoodCinema

Bikes parked in outside building

The best way to travel to the #nziff 🚲🎥 Beat the traffic, park for free, + chat post movie 💙🌛
👋 Simon Wilson @nzherald.bsky.social

Red shed with cow sculpture on top and spotty bollards out front selling unpasteurised milk (Faith Farm, south of Ōtaki, New Zealand)

Spot the bollards and go moo 🐮🥛😊 @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social

Show Your Stripes Visualising how the climate has changed for every country across the globe

Auckland Harbour Bridge would be the perfect place for this #vectorlightshow #climateaction #showyourstripes
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Slash blamed in climate change-free flash-flood coverage Pine forest waste dams rivers & wipes out campground in Tasman; Media coverage again fails to cite climate change; Power users demand reform; Govt wants 30,000 more working foreign students

Many thanks to paying subscribers for pushing this over 100 likes. I've opened it up for full public reading, listening & sharing. It also includes an audio embed of an interview with Jesse Mulligan for RNZ Afternoons, which was broadcast today. Chocks away! Ngā mihi nui. Bernard #nzpol

Thank you! I was starting to think I was living in an alternative reality after reading article after article on RNZ about the recent flooding with no mention of #climatechange
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It's actually unbelievable - at least 5 recent articles on RNZ citing "unpredictable" "devasting" "once in 100 years event" etc. and not one mention of WHY the floods might be occurring 😣 #JoinTheDots #climateaction

Nasa data reveals dramatic rise in intensity of weather events Extreme events such as floods and droughts are becoming more frequent, longer-lasting and more severe, study says

“Nasa data reveals dramatic rise in intensity of weather events. Extreme events such as floods and droughts are becoming more frequent, longer-lasting and more severe, study says.”

Obviously.

That’s what #ClimateChange does.

Makes the bad things more likely, and worse.

More likely. And worse.

Drivers are afraid cyclists will be smug at them.

Cyclists are afraid drivers will kill them.

YouTube video by Streetfilms® In The City of London Bicycles Now Outnumber Cars

Guaranteed to make a cycling activist cry tears of joy 😂
C'mon Tamaki Makaurau, let's make this happen here too! #activemodes #morebikeinfra #climateaction @bikeauckland.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=OunB...

The best way to travel to the #bigscreensymposium 😀🎬🎥📺🎞️

Politician plus woman plus leftie plus bicycle I guess. I’m not removing these names cos they posted in public on a Herald thread.

So @legallyfeminist.bsky.social here’s an example for the abuse files - NZ Herald put up an article about my accident on their FB and while there are lots of sympathetic comments there are also quite a number celebrating or laughing or asking disingenuous questions. Herald has had to close comments.

Looking forward to getting back into this get-up once my broken foot heals 🙃 #ubersux

How to bike to work in the rain (and not turn up a drowned rat) About three percent of urban New Zealanders are considered “committed” bike riders, and even fewer get in the seat rain, hail or shine. But some do.

I definitely consider myself one of the 3% of urban Kiwis who are “committed” cyclists 🚲⛈️😀 There’s no such thing as bad weather, just the wrong clothing 🤣
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‘Good news story’: Wellington cyclist numbers well over double in two years A cycling advocate said the swell of cyclists coming through the Basin Reserve was due to a new cycleway that opened mid-2023.

Biking is on the up in Wellington, thanks to the network effect, and thanks to WCC. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3607... @cyclewgtn.bsky.social

Hey @bikeauckland.bsky.social Bike train on Te Huia would be a great #biketober event! 🚂🚲🥳