Kent Lundberg

Public open day for a 3km cycleway between Māngere and Māngere Bridge in south Auckland.

That was on a @publicaddress.bsky.social meet up at Golden Dawn I think

One of the obvious impacts of Govt not investing into a downturn is tanking taxes (= higher deficits). Countless examples across the world, but sadly most of our reckonomics commentariat are small island caveman monetarists, so, prices going up? Ug. Throw kiwis on the dole, ug, crash economy. [🧵1/n]

Holy shit San Francisco!

60% of the city rezoned, most places exceeding (!!) SB 79. The most restrictive of these allows attached 4–8 story apt buildings with no cap on the # of homes inside, no parking mandates, and by-right streamlined approval.

Movement racking up the municipal wins today 🏆🏆🏆

Map showing location where housing is likely to increase in Auckland

Housing growth expected in central areas with latest zoning plans. knowledgeauckland.org.nz/media/xxfhos...

And we have great suburban retrofits: Northcote, Glen Innes, and Owairaka are a few.

City centre laneways and kerbless streets. Vulture’s for beer.

1) our freeway running busways - northern and interim north western.
2) brt lite bus corridors - Dominion Rd
3) car lite Queen St with a traffic filter at Wellesley St
4) note relative absence of parking craters
5) city centre cycleways including ‘pink path’

More Homes is hosting YIMBY drinks on Wednesday in Auckland for a US delegation looking into housing reform @cayimby.bsky.social and @metroabundance.bsky.social

Loved seeing Te Komititanga full of people celebrating the lighting of Te Manaaki, Auckland’s Giant Christmas Tree.

Hard to believe a few years ago this civic space was a four lane road. It’s much better now and it is used by tens of thousands more people each day.

I 💚❤️ AKL

Clean electrification is inevitable — Volts Energy strategist Kingsmill Bond joins me to explain why the transition to “electrotech” is unstoppable, whether or not politicians care about climate change. It’s not the reduced emissions, it’s phys...

Incredibly exciting electrification revolution is happening right now. overcast.fm/+AAoT_nRAn40

Oxford Street - proposals for transport and highway changes Find out about the public consultation on proposals to pedestrianise Oxford Street and make changes to transport and highways in the area

Details of traffic changes to pedestrianise Oxford Street haveyoursay.tfl.gov.uk/oxford-stree...

Or ‘here’s the pipeline you asked for… What? you wanted real projects to plan for?’

“Every dollar of extra Crown capital we put into roading is a dollar that can’t go into health, or education, or defence, or any of the other calls on capital the Crown has.”

Super interesting speech by Transport Minister Bishop seemingly distancing himself from the roadsfest they ran on. www.beehive.govt.nz/speech/speec...

Sorry you had to wait 10 months for your cancer surgery – a politician needed to save 10 minutes getting to the airport.

Ugh Australasia dammit

Yeah, I think it’s too expensive too

“Buses are unsexy and forgettable,” he says. “But also they’re literally everywhere which is why they’re the most important part of the system.” @nicolas-reid.bsky.social

Controversial: Public transport in Auckland is actually pretty good Though it might be a controversial opinion, these days public transport in Auckland is in many respects fine, and in a number of areas, bordering on good.

Auckland’s PT *network* “easily the best in Australia” 🔫 thespinoff.co.nz/society/17-1...

Kind of wonderful to now have mainstream voices saying the things we spent so long being ridiculed for claiming:

www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

Great to see. And this “Bringing the stadium closer to the city centre” is exactly what will happen in the city fringe.

No.

Legislation allowing congestion charging passes third reading in Parliament The Bill establishes a framework permitting local authorities to set up a congestion charging scheme, by notifying NZTA.

Congestion pricing moves forward with bi-partisan support. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Narrow street under reconstruction in Auckland.

More Ws emerging. Mercury Lane former car sewer now mostly pedestrianised.

How Southern California would benefit from electric trains Electrification and level boarding platforms can significantly improve rail travel on the west coast, too.

Momentum is gaining momentum. The railroad infrastructure framework developed by @ndhapple.bsky.social has gone bicoastal.

A new report from @calelectricrail.org shows how level boarding and electrified trains would transform transportation in SoCal.

benjaminschneider.substack.com/p/how-southe...

Loads of useful info and Auckland and NZ content 🥳

Australia: More Homes, better cities. Letting more people live where they want. (Image of how zoning constrains housing close to the centres of capital cities.) Link grattan.edu.au/wp-content/u...

Nice!

They're calling it Woke 2.