Sending this to the Beehive...
13.03.2026 08:16
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Sending this to the Beehive...
"When you ride alone you ride with the trade deficit" "$7.29B USD of oil" takes the place of Hitlers head in famous WWII poster encouraging people to drive less. "Train, Walk, Bus, or Bike Today!"
Here's one I prepared earlier
Donβt forget to spread your legs instead of using the petrol car
Thanks to my green team @rebeccamatthews.bsky.social @geordierogers.co.nz @jonnyosborne.bsky.social Wellington City Council climate mitigation budget lives on. Thanks to all councillors who voted in support. A big mihi to our community for emailing councillors to say no cuts to climate action!
HELL YES I AM SO READY FOR THIS*
*ready to watch other people unwisely do backyard industrial chemistry.
Very pleased to have succeeded in my amendment to restore $1.1 million to climate change response budget (with some reductions including a 500k cut to consultants spend so no rates impact).
a still from the simpsons cartoon where grandpa simpson is writing a letter to complain there is too many states.
Please increase ALT text available characters tenfold, I am not a crackpot.
a still from the simpsons cartoon where grandpa simpson is writing a letter to complain there is too many states.
Please increase ALT text available characters tenfold, I am not a crackpot.
...It has run under budget on delivering its projects, and is a repeat recipient of awards, it is a testament to the council and a prudent investment in Wellington."
...rather than on fuel, where that cost will immediately leave the country and be spent on motorways from Auckland to rural towns that even Auckland doesn't want...
The program has already been cut by $60+ million over recent budgets...
Rest off the ALT text:
"It should hopefully be clear that on present growth it will not take long for this program to pay for itself into Wellingtonians back pockets, among other benefits. Those constituents of yours will in turn will be more likely to spend that money on local goods and services...
TΔnΔ koe, My name is Grant Buchan, I am a resident of Wellington for over a decade and a ratepayer in PukehΔ«nau/Lambton General Ward. My normal mode of travel is walking. I'm writing to you as I am concerned with the decision to defund walking and cycling projects, as a rates cutting measure. This strikes me as an unforced error, accepting the framing by opponents of these as merely "nice to haves". I do not believe this is true at all, rather it seems to me they are prudent investments in making sure more Wellingtonians can save money by having an option to travel other than a car. The most recent calculation by the AA of the cost of owning a modest vehicle in Aotearoa amounted to a combined total of around $22 per day(https://www.aa.co.nz/cars/motoring-blog/the-cost-of-running-a-vehicle/) in 2021 dollars, of which about $8.30 was flexible costs i.e. the component that shrinks if you drive less. I'm sure I do not need to point out that since that time we have had significant inflation, and that international events around the strait of hormuz are likely to see elevate fuel prices for a significant period into the future. The estimates I can find of typical benefit-cost ratios of cycling infrastructure in Aotearoa come in at 10-25 times the expenditure (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3984216/) From the estimates I've found the the likely savings to rate payers is on average about $5 per week, for all cuts proposed. The councils own report notes that: "Cycling uptake is growing, with between 11-87% more daily trips on new routes and citywide volumes on key arterial routes up 18% since 2020. Strong cycling growth on connected routes such as Miramar to City and Island Bay to City are an indicator of the benefits of a connected network."
Did some yelling at clouds (if you were not one of the councilors who received this it's because I knew I didn't need to tell you and you possibly follow me anyway, or you probably weren't going to be convinced anyway)
This actually feels really reassuring I get the appeal
histories will know 2016-2026(??) as the decade of touching the stove.
Imagine if we had had the sense to roll this out everywhere π€
Elon tweet saying Grok speaks the truth and Grok tweet saying Elon is a pedophile.
π€·ββοΈIf you gotta rob a bank you gotta rob a bank
Even a lot of phev's would do most people's daily drive with overnight charging on a normal outlet without ever firing up the gas motor.
Don't remember why I thought of this but the world is so much brighter for it existing.
youtube.com/shorts/WPdPO...
See also bsky.app/profile/will...
The obvious wisdom and effectiveness of Housing First is obscured by the fact we've made "a tiny, no-frills apartment" an expensive status symbol in huge swathes of the country by creating an artificial housing shortage
The Govt is currently committed to a fuel tax rise of 12c next year, 6c in 2028, and 4c in the years following. Bishop has made clear his transport plan is predicated on this happening.
It will be interesting to see how the politics of this play out if fuel keeps going up.
someone might owe you for distributing a garlic peeling trick they had never encountered before
What the politics understanders need to understand is that the 15% whose swinging from labour to national determine the government understand 4 things with perfect certainty and clarity:
Petrol prices
Mortgage rates
Food inflation
That the above are the PM's fault
Ttemu Keir Starmer is not what I think most Wellingtonians thought they were voting for last year.
Weβre in a climate crisis, a 40 percent cut to our climate response budget makes no sense financially or for the future of the city. Next weekβs proposals include a total gutting of cycleway funding, & a backdown on commercial rates for Air B&B providers www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3609...