#TrainNews: Auckland Transport’s AM144 is being transported to Wellington reportedly for paint repair works. Pic via nzrailphotos live stream captured by Class 385 EMU on the Scoot Foundation Discord.

This should be Dominion Road.

a response to Christine Fletcher and Troy Churton's thing in the Herald last week. These people always say the Unitary Plan zoned for enough housing without mentioning all that housing is in Te Atatu and Milldale. They can't keep getting away with this! thespinoff.co.nz/politics/04-08…

Ow, ew & sick. Not exactly positive names for our train lines. Also that Onehunga to West line is so confusing.

Good.

That is so much money just to avoid levin. Insane

Great to be profiled by The Spinoff’s Wellington report Joel MacManus in today’s Windbag newsletter The choice is clear: old Ministers looking for a retirement gig, or genuine expertise in delivering for Welly VOTE SCOOT #1

How is a road on a flat plain with one river crossing costing $87.5mil per km. Transmission Gully is an engineering feat through insane terrain and cost $46mil per km.

All to bypass Levin when there's already a bypass of Levin (SH57). Madness.

All of the others are better than the awful option Auckland Transport chose.

Absolutely wild costs for this bypass of an existing bypass.

Exciting!

useful analysis backs-up my vibes: The average person in New Zealand who bought an investment property from 2015 onwards would have earned higher returns from investing in global equities. And had greater liquidity along the way. Hopefully, the average punter begins to ...

My face when a bunch of school kids get on the train.

Dude looks like he's never been on a train before.

The disaster zone that is NZ house prices. Over 10 years real prices have risen everywhere, even (though only a little, having seen large increases in the previous couple of years) in by far our most expensive region.

this is quite good from Wayne Brown -- sounds like it's ripped straight out of Transit Costs urbanism

It's been 7.5 years since Stu Donovan wrote this on Greater Auckland. What's been done in that time to improve our abysmal dwell times (beyond seeing the occasional TM figuring ways to do dwell actions in parallel while most of them continue not to)? greaterauckland.org.nz/2017/01/23/wha…

RIP Te Huia