What actually improves a bus trip more? 1. Saving $2.90? 2. Saving 15 minutes off your commute because the average bus speed jumped from 7 mph to 9 mph? The answer is speed.

An update from the CGA team! We are super stoked with the new council in Wellington and we're optimistic about getting Land Value Rates done this term. Tell your local councillors you support Land Value Rates!

Been a while since a housing piece has made me proper angry. Just gross rhetoric.

Charted Daily At the same time, the actual tax rates that people pay on their properties have stayed pretty similar. Eyeballing this graph, it looks like rates have gone up at about 6% per annum on average since 1995, which is the ~same as house price growth

NIMBY anti-infrastructure caucus is alive and well.

When I met with IKEA representatives a few years ago, they spoke positively about their preference to work with mana whenua and Māori, they were actually looking forward to it. They celebrate that IKEA engages with Indigenous communities globally. Most people aren’t anti Māori.

On a mildly related note someone seems to have purchased the Go Wellington Bus domain and is now using it to advertise online gambling

Congratulations to Seattle's Sound Transit, America's fastest-growing train network, which is opening an 8-mile, 3-station extension to Federal Way today! This is the system's 4th new segment opened in less than 2 years, continually pushing ridership up to new record highs!

The main problem I have with the City to Sea bridge is that it actively blocks access between the waterfront and Te Ngākau Civic Square. The waterfront and Te Ngākau should be one connected space. With the bridge, it's effectively three separated ones. thepost.co.nz/nz-news/360911…

If you're a renter in Wellington and the rent on your property is the same as what it was one year ago, you need to ask for a rent reduction. I was looking for a flat a few weeks ago and I had one landlord offer a 20% rent decrease. These things are possible.

"Only" is crazy. If we reduced air pollution across the world by 22% we would save hundreds of thousands of lives from lung and hear diseases.

New apartments & townhouses are cheaper than the old detached houses they replace. We should allow cheaper housing options to be built where people want to live.

Congestion pricing in New York has led to an 11% decrease in traffic, 14% decrease in accidents, 45% decrease in noise complaints, and 22% decline in particulate pollution e360.yale.edu/digest/new-yor…

The next Governor of California should not appoint anyone to the Coastal Commission who thinks it is “unfortunate” that a source of clean, firm power like the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant can’t be shut down

They want to put a second tunnel where I am currently standing

AI-designed protein which refolds after force and still functions after exposure to 302°F ai biodoomers vindicated

Viv Beck on the radio for the 100th time promoting problems & telling everyone how no one goes to the city centre. I once challenged her on this & asked if she understood every time she does it she scares people away. Lots of people, when they go check it out, enjoy it. Thurs:

Just incredible Viv Beck still has her job, when she does the exact opposite of what she should be doing - promoting the city centre.

Looking forward to hearing how the left was never gonna win this election anyway.

The election result in in the Papatoetoe subdivision of the Ōtara-Papatoetoe Local Board in Auckland has been voided by a district court judge. Judge McIlraith found there were irregularities that materially affected the election result in the subdivision.