Kent Lundberg
@kentlundberg.bsky.social
Sustainable transport and car optional cities. I lead a small company focused on public transport, urban design, parking reform and investment advice. Auckland, New Zealand.
NZ is getting balcony solar 😍. An example of how quickly good ideas can be adopted here.
Renew Economy@reneweconomy.com.au · 3d agoMajor NZ government review finds “no good reason” for preventing Kiwis from using plug-in solar, and may make it legal within a year. Will Australia follow? https://reneweconomy.com.au/if-theyre-good-enough-for-germany-new-zealand-set-to-beat-australia-to-legalising-plug-in-solar/
On anglosphere rail planning and mis-management. Featuring Auckland light rail debacle. youtu.be/iIET6M3phqA?...
The English-world is TERRIBLE at building transit. This is why.
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This could be an all-timer rule of threes
VoteHub@votehub.com · 4w agoBREAKING — U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham has died, per his office. He was 71.
Auckland's 2016 upzoning gives us a real-world example of a clean causal effect. First, building permits increased dramatically in upzoned areas. 1/
Not to be all “we told you so”… …but we did, in fact, tell everyone so. Repeatedly. And with receipts. 🤷🏻♀️😎 👉 www.greaterauckland.org.nz?s=Rons Now that reality is sinking in at last, can we please get back to planning and building right-sized, rational, resilient and multi-modal transport networks?
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henry cooke@henrycooke.bsky.social · 4w agoNEW: Chris Bishop has unveiled the Govt's major backdown on the Roads of National Significance, with just six with guaranteed construction dates. Here's 2023 promises v now:
Interesting look at contraflow bus lanes from the TransitWorld youtube channel youtu.be/8FNmn8MdLGo?...
Mexico City has a lot to teach the world about contraflow bus lanes
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Every couple of months we get a devastating flood wiping out rural highways. Seems like something to consider when budgeting for mega dumb new road projects.
Stu Fleming@thebasement.nz · 4w agoA State Highway we can all be proud of, is there even any base layer under that?
Late but good. Parties trying to outbid each other on electrification policy. www.rnz..nz/news/politic...
New kerb line dropped on Victoria St 👀. Right side gets bi-directional cycleway and wide footpath.
If Auckland, NZ, were a U.S. city, it'd be our fifth-largest. Its story is remarkable. One in five homes in Auckland has been built since 2017, and prices are down 20% from their pandemic peak. In today's third episode of YIMBY Country, two experts share the numbers of a wildly successful reform.
Michael Andersen@andersem.bsky.social · 2mo agoHey, during my sabbatical I made a podcast! It’s a one-shot miniseries about what happened after the world’s most ambitious upzoning campaign won. Here’s the trailer; episodes coming weekly all through June & July. You can subscribe on Apple/Spotify/etc. rss.com/podcasts/yim...
Level unlocked. Retractable bollards operated by license plate recognition allowing residents access.
OG nimby with the playbook: -infrastructure is old and cannot cope with more development -Schools are full - wastewater and stormwater overflowing - need more planning - not enough green spaces. And of course, “Auckland needs housing where there is infrastructure to support it”
City centre upgrades take time but are worth it. It’s important to look back while focusing on the future. The team at the Auckland Urban Development Office knows how much I love before and after shots so they sent me these five images today to share. Vision and hard decisions.
"Broom the soup." A lot of centrists are freaking out right now, and people are both reading too much and too little into the DSA victories, but a metaphor from my career may be helpful here. 1/?
Julianne McShane@juliannemcshane.bsky.social · last mo.“All of us are a little frustrated with the Democratic Party. But you don’t blow it up. That’s what MAGA has done.” - Tish James on Mamdani 👀😳
Can’t launch a new through running subway without merch 😍 www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2026/06/11/b...
Classic. Recall too how they went from “the sun doesn’t shine at night” to a solar programme for schools in a week.
Russell Brown@publicaddress.bsky.social · 2mo agoYou people literally just had a Budget where you had nothing new for public transport and now you're talking about breaking into an emergency fund for it? Seems pretty random. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Which would you rather have for $65 m - a year of public transport cap of $20 a week, or 588 meters of motorway?
Michael Plank@michaelplanknz.bsky.social · 2mo ago$5.8 bn in new funding for the *entirety* of the creaking health system. And nearly a third of that ($1.77 bn) for *sixteen kilometres* for one single road 🤔
Hey, during my sabbatical I made a podcast! It’s a one-shot miniseries about what happened after the world’s most ambitious upzoning campaign won. Here’s the trailer; episodes coming weekly all through June & July. You can subscribe on Apple/Spotify/etc. rss.com/podcasts/yim...
YIMBY Country | Podcast on RSS.com
In 2021, the nation of New Zealand announced the YIMBY rapture.In the country's five largest cities, you would be allowed to build up to eight-story buildings anywhere within a 10-minute walk of mass ...
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Building through a house price correction. You love to see it.
Zohran just cited Minneapolis, Austin, and Auckland as cities that lowered housing costs via upzoning certified ball knowledge, Auckland is a deep YIMBY cut
While I think "enthusiasm to visit the US as measured by visits to the US" data is now (getting into April) also being affected by war wobbles and fuel price cost of living issues, I did have cause to update this graph today, so am sharing it.
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Grattan Institute@grattaninstitute.bsky.social · 3mo agoWhat do car-parks have to do with Australia's housing crisis? More than you'd think. Mandatory parking rules are adding as much as $137,000 to the price of a typical two-bedroom apartment. Grattan’s new report, ‘Wasted space’, says it's time to axe the rules: grattan.edu.au/report/waste...
What do car-parks have to do with Australia's housing crisis? More than you'd think. Mandatory parking rules are adding as much as $137,000 to the price of a typical two-bedroom apartment. Grattan’s new report, ‘Wasted space’, says it's time to axe the rules: grattan.edu.au/report/waste...
Auckland has been progressing this shift from an undifferentiated street network to focused transit corridors over the last 10 years.
This means, Irena says, that projects combining solar and wind generation with battery storage can now provide 24-hour power at prices that are competitive with gas-fired power plants. ☀️✨
ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · 3mo ago"The cost of a typical utility-scale battery installation has fallen by well over half since 2022, and by 27 per cent last year alone" www.ft.com/content/b5c5...
The IEA base case is “the Strait of Hormuz remains effectively closed until late May” But they now seem to be revising their analysis. www.reuters.com/business/ene...
US EIA concedes Middle East supply disruptions are far worse than prior estimates
The U.S. Energy Information Administration on Tuesday revised its earlier forecasts to reflect a much bigger and lengthier hit to global oil supplies from the Iran war than it previously projected, h...
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dream crossover 🏋️♂️😍
The War on Cars@thewaroncars.bsky.social · 3mo agoNew episode! "A Physical Education with Casey Johnston." We talk with @caseyjohnston.bsky.social about the structural barriers that prevent Americans from moving their bodies and why "at the scale of daily life, cars should be systematically discouraged." podcasts.apple.com/lu/podcast/a...
