colemagoo

I always presumed they were more for drainage than bikes?

Effectiveness as a bypass can vary wildly with how much of a no parking buffer they paint on each side

Really can't tell if the "no one reads cover letters anymore" thing is real or just cope because nobody wants to have to write a fucking cover letters for each of their 300 job applications

Severance is urbanist media because it correctly identifies the inherent evilness of suburban office complexes and their parking lots.

This could just be perception due to the cramped layout

Feels like auckland regional is even busier than auckland domestic this morning

Nosferatu was v good, but holy fuck was it difficult to concentrate on that when Academy Cinemas is approximately a billion degrees celsius when it's full

I'm really not that old and I get out on the bike a couple times a week, but I am now 100% confirmed to be a weekend warrior in spirit.

In news that makes me feel both ancient and slow, I found an old flatmates 14 year old kid on Strava, and the bastard is way faster than me.

Note that this data is sourced from OSM, so any weird dots on the map may be legitimately be missing data (in which case, you can be the one to fix it!)

But they may also be technicalities like this, where a bus doesn't use one part of a complex junction or roundabout

And (potentially less interestingly) all of the secondary, primary and trunk roads in Auckland that don't get any bus service at all

A map of all primary or trunk roads in Auckland that don't get frequent bus service

A map of all primary or trunk roads in Auckland that don't get frequent bus service

Anyone who, on the face of it, hates the Hare Krishnas doing their thing in the city on Friday nights has no joy or whimsy in their heart, and is not gonna make it.

Curious to see if AT breaks out the single digit numbers anytime soon (they feel fairly important - perhaps for BRT-lite, if they want to distinguish from B1 etc. as shown on leaked maps?)

We've almost run out of South Auckland route numbers, with 7 currently in use, and only the 34 left unused by 2031.

Meanwhile, Waiheke takes up a whole block with only one route (and no expansion likely any time soon.)

Some very nerdy detail on the frequent bus route numbering in Auckland:

33% of the possible frequent bus route numbers are currently in use

42% are committed to be used in the RPTP by 2031.

The fun thing about using a French provider for your website is that you sometimes get very convincing scam emails in Bosnian(?)

Replacing the cassette on my GF's city bike has left me convinced that any store that sells consumer level bikes without *at least* a 1:1 gear is actively sabotaging their customers

The new style shimano quick links with both rivets on one side can absolutely get fucked

I'm sure that doesn't help, but I would guess that the bigger difference is lots of stops on 50kmh road vs spending most of the journey of on a freeflowingish 70-100kmh roads

Mt Roskillish to Highland Park.

The transfers aren't too bad using the 67, but it's an entire extra hour each way via bus,and I ain't doing that shit one way, never mind return.

Truly, Pakuranga is a scourge upon this fair city

(Still doesn't mean it's a good project tho)

Disappointed to report that I'm currently making a journey via uber that would have been a lot easier via Avondale to Southdown

Why does Netflix even have a Christmas themed TSA apologia movie

Ah, I love this article, but was more curious about Britomart/the move away from the Beach Rd station than the CRL itself

For those who've been around for a while:

Were any alternative alignments/locations for Britomart seriously considered prior to its construction in 2001? Or was the only serious proposal going alongside Quay St to the old bus terminal?

It might be freaking out about the crossings in the raw OSM data or something?

Or if this is just part of an onwards journey, it might be doing that to reset the 15 minute max walking connnection time (though I would say that's probably unintended)

Wild that a Tauranga->Auckland bus starts at $34, while the equivalent flight is as low as $85.

Obviously 2.5x the cost is nothing to sneeze at, but neither is a 5x shorter travel time.

Te Huia extension would provide a good middle ground/actual competition to Intercity?

Even Christchurch is not immune to such degeneracy

Many such cases in Tauranga