“Habitat Restorations Aotearoa landscape architect Chantal Whitby designed a plan which includes expanded green spaces and extra seating.”

A fresh face for Lorne St as the South Dunedin street gets a green community spruce-up

A fresh face for Lorne St as the South Dunedin street gets a green community spruce-up

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A reminder: 🚗: I hope I find parking. 🚴🏽‍♂️: I hope I don’t die. Our priorities are not the same.

Make your choice by midnight today, and make sure your whānau are all ENROLLED TO VOTE. Go to vote.nz and take 5 seconds to check that you're enrolled and your details are up-to-date. #nzpol

Winston sucks more than any other living MP but he at least understands what's at stake

Read this and weep. And maybe vote. Brilliant charts again (and always) from @musicalchairs.bsky.social

Musical Chairs@musicalchairs.bsky.social · 17h ago

Regular viewers will know that I had serious doubts about the 'recovery' well before Trump decided to cause global chaos (and trading opportunities for his buddies). Suffice to say, today's unemployment data is GRIM! Let's have a look... Unemployment rate vs the guesses of clueless ghouls. [🧵 1/n]

City Rail Link opening date revealed as 13 September

City Rail Link opening date revealed as 13 September

Thirty-nine days.

rnz.co.nz

Glasshouses feel cost of drought as sprinkler ban imposed www.dutchnews.nl?p=271071

Glasshouses feel cost of drought as sprinkler ban imposed

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HE WENT ON A RAMPAGE AND DROVE A UTE INTO THE GROUP OF CYCLISTS AND A JOURNALIST JUST ASKED IF THEY HAD ANY LIGHTS ON THEIR BIKES FFS. And yes, the capslock are necessary

"Children who travel independently and actively to school have better spatial awareness, a better sense of balance, faster social development and fewer learning disorders on average than children who are driven to school." - Ulla Rasmussen, Executive Director Mobility with a Future (Vienna)

This kind of smart, bouncable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in many American cities.

Qagggy!@qagggy.bsky.social · 23h ago

we need to build more houses and i’m ok if a few are bouncy

ACT: “It’s a graphic not a graph” Professor Thomas Lumley: “It’s clearly giving bar charts” www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic... #NZPol

ACT's 'visually misleading' post: Is it a graphic or a graph?

An ACT Party post about the gap between new medicines funded in Australia and New Zealand is "visually misleading," according to a statistics professor.

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Youth underutilisation up to 37% of workforce Youth enrolment for election dangerously low They go hand in hand

Bernard Hickey@bernardchickey.bsky.social · yesterday

Free & open for all: Unemployment rate up to 11-year high of 5.6%; Underutilisation rate up to 13-year high of 13.8%; Youth underutilisation up to 37% of workforce; Yet 111,000 work visas were granted & the RBNZ hiked to take 'heat' out of the economy. #nzpol open.substack.com/pub/thekaka/...

Was a great watch. 👏 conversations.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/events/movem...

Jo Johnson@jojohnson.bsky.social · yesterday

He was inspiring at the Auckland Conversations event last night too! 😍 #activemodes #streets4people @aucklandcouncil.bsky.social

#solarworksinthecold

“Local Government Minister Simon Watts did not directly respond to Cr Walker’s comments but said a “large number of councils” had made significant progress in three months, including consulting their communities.”

Walker critical of ‘organised chaos’ from government

Walker critical of ‘organised chaos’ from government

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No shit sherlock Too easy to get the licence from the weetbix box and not enough crack downs and lost of licences

RNZ News Feeds@rnzrss.bsky.social · 2d ago

Most drivers not following basic road rules, AA research shows

Hey NZ parents, what can we do to get your young adult kids enrolled to vote? I know it's the responsibility of the young adults, but is there something we can do to help things along?

I did this in 2018, some data will be out of date now, but it was a big topic then too... I pulled and made assumptions based on the data I *could* get ahold of exhalantblog.wordpress.com/2018/04/23/f...

Foreign drivers and NZ’s crash stats: click-bait commentary VS actual data

People should try not to abuse the real statistics for simplistic cheap points scoring, whether this is on social media or through the media itself (in other words, politicians current or former ma…

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220 crashes!!

Jessica de Heij@jdeheij.bsky.social · 2d ago

Also, wondering are there more crashes happening on snow days (compared to 5-10 years ago) because people are over competent with their car? They think they can drive down/up that hilly street because they have a UTE or SUV? 🤔 cc @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social

Also, wondering are there more crashes happening on snow days (compared to 5-10 years ago) because people are over competent with their car? They think they can drive down/up that hilly street because they have a UTE or SUV? 🤔 cc @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social

No stopping Pedals Bike Couriers.

😂

Steffen Rayburn-Maarup@rayburnmaarup.bsky.social · 3d ago

I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.

Let me take a minute to tell you how bonkers this is. The first election I worked was (I think) 2008, before there was really any advance voting. At every election, if you weren't on the roll, we let you cast a special vote and then worked out if you were eligible afterwards. Two reasons: 1/2

Marc Daalder@marcdaalder.bsky.social · 2d ago

The Electoral Commission has told staff to turn away voters who aren't on the printed roll and who say they're unenrolled, but has no plans to count how many people will be affected. newsroom.co.nz/2026/08/03/t...

❄️❄️❄️SNOW!!❄️❄️❄️ Info via DCC: Winter is here! And many roads are super slippery so please take care if driving. Blueskin Road, Mount Cargill Road and Three Mile Hill are closed because of snow. (1/2)

Current road conditions and unplanned road closures

Information about the services and facilities provided and managed by the Dunedin City Council for residents and visitors to Dunedin.

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Only in Dunedin! 😂

Snow way! Daredevil skies down Baldwin St

Snow way! Daredevil skies down Baldwin St

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Am the only one in the office atm. Kiwis can’t even deal with a bit of snow. 😜⛄️🙃

Also the 8 is running atm 🚌

David Hood@thoughtfulnz.bsky.social · 2d ago

Normandy route is running. I jumped on one to save walking about 20 minutes ago

Also, if you are trying to bus in (like me), no busses until 9am.

And then we got Dunedin problems when busses try to go on very hilly roads (Stuart street) in this snow. 🙃