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@boxcar_joey

5 months

Well that’s been a productive few hours being angry on the internet.

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Boxcar 🦫

@boxcar_joey

2 years

We’ve got an absolute fucking mystery on our hands folks.

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2 years

Gotta say the way the police are taking down those tents, I think they’re really gonna struggle to get them back in the tent bags (which is tricky at the best of times).

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9 months

Gonna be nuts if the Greens get 20 MPs. Like, can you imagine what kind crazy son of a bitch is 17th on the Greens list?

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@boxcar_joey

2 years

So median household income is around $80k, right? So here's what I don't get: How are you supposed to have 2 kids, buy a house in a desirable suburb, take annual overseas holidays and retire by 55 on $80k. I've done the numbers, but I just can't make it work.

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1 year

Wayne Brown keeping detailed records of the extra 45 minutes of work he is putting in tonight to make sure he gets it back as time in lieu.

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1 year

Chris Luxon Supermarket check out machines 🤝 Giving people receipts they didn't ask for and don't want.

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@boxcar_joey

3 years

I love Wellington. Just picked up a bag of coffee and some bagels for the weekend. Is there any other city where you can do this?

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@boxcar_joey

2 years

There has been a lot of confusion recently over who is reasonably considered a 'Boomer.' I've pulled together this flow chart to help you answer this question for yourself. I hope it's helpful.

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@boxcar_joey

10 months

Breaking: ACT candidate for Rongotai John Ligma has withdrawn from the race following revelations of his membership in DEEZ.

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@boxcar_joey

2 years

I don't want to alarm anyone, but I think Phase 1 of the Omicron response, referred to as 'Stamp it Out,' may have failed.

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2 years

Please stop referring to returning to nz as a privilege. It is literally the bill of rights, the list of thing we put into law to be clear that they weren’t just privileges.

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@boxcar_joey

1 year

Just criminal that most libraries in Wellington are closed on Sundays, one of only two days that most people can access them. If we can't afford to open them seven days then close them on Tuesdays or something.

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@boxcar_joey

2 years

Hearing a lot of chatter from my networks that Luxon is considering canning ACC and using the existing assets to build a 50 ft tall solid gold statue of Sir John Key to go atop the Sky Tower.

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@boxcar_joey

1 year

I'm not exactly pro motorway, but I don't understand the line of argument that suggests that roading expansions fail when all that was achieved was more people using the road. Isn't that the part of the point of increasing transport capacity?

Adam Tranter

@adamtranter

1 year

A study showed that M25 widening did not result in less congestion, but rather more people used it and quickly gobbled up extra capacity. The economic model to justify the investment relied on the promise of higher traffic speeds. I promise you, one more lane won’t fix it.

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6 months

This debate isn’t really my fight but this is the funniest shit I have ever seen.

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@boxcar_joey

1 year

Community Facebook page killing it. These two posts were made 23 minutes apart.

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@boxcar_joey

1 year

Chemist Warehouse's strategy of offering products that people want at a lower price than can be found elsewhere appears very popular with consumers.

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@boxcar_joey

5 months

What’s stopping you from moving to Wellington, New Zealand?

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@boxcar_joey

15 days

Coalition govt: We are going hand power back from Wellington and give it Councils, who know what's best for their local communities Councils: We would like widespread reductions in speed limits to make our cities safer and pleasanter CG: No, not like that.

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@boxcar_joey

1 year

I love NZ but man this country is a joke sometimes.

Te Huia train banned from Auckland city after twice failing to stop on red

The Auckland to Hamilton train has been side-tracked for up to a year while new safety technology is installed

www.stuff.co.nz

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@boxcar_joey

2 years

Both Wgtn and Akl Councils have provided a perfect demonstration of why the heavy-handed approach of the NPS-UD and MDRS was required in the face of a local government system that continues to prioritise the wants of the well-housed over the needs of the less fortunate.

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@boxcar_joey

27 days

If I were an academic with a large social media following, I would simply not use that platform to cyber bully harmless 21 year old nursing students sharing questionable recipe tips.

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@boxcar_joey

1 year

Jokes gonna be on other pharmacies when Chemist Warehouse just gives you five dollars every time you get a prescription now.

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@boxcar_joey

8 months

What if I told you there was a city with well paying jobs, a cosmopolitan vibe and this is a 30 minute bike ride from its centre?

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@boxcar_joey

2 months

David Seymour has finally condemned hummus.

David Seymour

@dbseymour

2 months

Students will receive nutritious food that they want to eat. It will be made up of the sorts of food items thousands of mums and dads put into lunch boxes every day for their kids – forget quinoa, couscous, and hummus, it will be more like sandwiches and fruit.

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@boxcar_joey

2 years

When I was working in Bowen House in 2020, I asked my son, then just turned 4, if he wanted me to take him to the Beehive (which he knew by sight and was interested in). He said, “yes” and then looked at me with a twinge of fear and whispered, “but I don’t want to see the bees.”

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@boxcar_joey

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Culture Critic

@Culture_Crit

1 year

Does humanity have any greater architectural legacy than the Gothic cathedrals of Europe?

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@boxcar_joey

1 year

So we just offered a teacher employment at our creche. She asked us to match her current pay. Instead, we offered her a 15% raise. Part of why we are able to do that is that we are participating in MoE's 'pay parity scheme'. This is a policy that should get more attention. 1/

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@boxcar_joey

1 year

'Bedroom commuters' is literally just a synonym for 'people with jobs'

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@boxcar_joey

1 year

Whether you think it's good or bad this article reads as a pretty strong vindication of what Labour was trying to achieve through the interest deductibility rules.

Investor ‘will sell fourth property if Labour wins, and buy if National does’

With National promising to return a key tax advantage to investors, investor Brianna Kerridge embodies the crossroads the housing market is at.

www.stuff.co.nz

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@boxcar_joey

1 month

Looking forward to firebrand labour leader Kieran McAnulty ruling out a capital gains tax in 2026.

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@boxcar_joey

6 months

This kind of refrigerated low density residential-only development is legal in most parts of New Zealand.

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@boxcar_joey

1 year

Very interesting that this pharmacy on Courtenay place is being impacted by the not-yet-started road layout changes, whereas my pharmacist on Lambton Quay (Chemist Warehouse) remains jam packed with customers. Wonder what's behind the difference?

Azaria Howell

@AzariaHowell

1 year

The last time UFS Pharmacy Manager Julie Keenan will walk through the doors of the business she’s worked at for years, will be next week, on July 13. She's citing the Let's Get Wellington Moving 'Golden Mile' development as the reason. via @nzherald

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@boxcar_joey

2 years

50% of all news articles in New Zealand follow the following format: X is being proposed. Person with a financial or personal interest in X not happening opposes it. End of article.

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@boxcar_joey

3 months

France: one of the world’s largest and intricate churches burns down. It took 200 years to build. We will rebuild it in five years. People trying to restore a single earthquake prone heritage building in New Zealand:

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@boxcar_joey

2 years

Lmao at the park where chippie is doing the press conference.

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@boxcar_joey

2 years

Things so bad in Germany buildings may only be heated several degrees warmer overnight than New Zealand houses typically are.

Anneka Treon

@AnnekaTreon

2 years

Do people understand how bag things are getting in Germany? Thread 👇🏼 Vonovia the largest real estate company will drop the temperature of gas heated buildings to 17 degrees Celsius at night. Some housing cooperatives and giving quotas for when residents can use hot water

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@boxcar_joey

5 months

Felicity Wong trying to ‘Atlas Network’ YIMBY twitter.

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@boxcar_joey

2 years

It’s indefensible that car safety ratings are only based on impacts on those in the vehicle. The idea that a Ford Ranger is a ‘safer’ vehicle than a VW Golf is patently absurd and I cannot believe regulators and progressive politicians put up with it.

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@boxcar_joey

2 years

The greatest minds in the Labour Party currently trying to figure out how you distance yourself from this catastrophic failure of the state, and exactly which bus you need to throw Coster under to achieve this.

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@boxcar_joey

9 months

Ranking polling places I voted at today 🧵1/37

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@boxcar_joey

8 months

Lee Donoghue

@LeeDonoghue

8 months

Time to stop politicizing local councils. Politics should be left to central government. Local councils need to make sure things are maintained and kept in good working order, encourage commerce and local business. But we have a proxy Green mayor in Wellington and a proxy Labour

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@boxcar_joey

11 months

Very concerned about this project. Have had a couple of hoons on this one and if WCC keeps dropping massive Ws like this I'm going to have to reevaluate my views on better things not being possible, which would be difficult and confronting.

Wellington City Council

@WgtnCC

1 year

After a blessing by mana whenua in the early hours of Sunday morning, the new two-way bike lane on Cambridge and Kent Terrace is ready to roll! 🚲🙌 While there are still finishing touches to complete, but the new traffic signal phasing will be operating from today.

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@boxcar_joey

1 year

Going to cry myself to sleep after AC plan change provides for 200 of these in Te Atatū Peninsula and says 30 years of capacity has been provided for.

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@boxcar_joey

1 year

Been here for two hours trying to figure out what the hell this machine is.

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@boxcar_joey

1 month

He’s lurking

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@boxcar_joey

2 years

@henrycooke This kind of hyperbole isn't helpful Henry. What kind of person can spend an entire day making out with someone? What am I, made of chapstick?

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@boxcar_joey

2 years

Can’t understand why bridge players aren’t more represented among avalanche victims.

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@boxcar_joey

2 years

Public holiday or immediate republic there is no third option Ms Ardern

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@AlboMP

2 years

On September 22 there will be a public holiday for the National Day of Mourning for Her Majesty The Queen.

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@boxcar_joey

1 year

Just cartoonish villainy.

Stuff

@NZStuff

1 year

A Coromandel town wanted a skatepark. Aucklanders popped up to say no, not in the backyard of their sponsor’s holiday home.

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@boxcar_joey

1 year

Inconvenient truth is that Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch are all, by and large, great places with plenty of potential to be even better.

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@boxcar_joey

10 months

This is just the silliest hack article. No reference to the fact that the vacancy rate on lambton quay is effectively zero. Or that a very large commercial development just opened. Or that PT (which overwhelmingly goes to the CBD) is at pre-Covid levels.

The hole in Wellington’s heart

OPINION: The work-from-home culture is leaving a hole in the centre of Wellington.

www.thepost.co.nz

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@boxcar_joey

6 months

Love this country's ability to convince itself that very normal things are 'uniquely kiwi.'

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@boxcar_joey

2 years

Reckon metlink should mix it up sometime and do trains replace buses instead.

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@boxcar_joey

2 years

Feel like there is a lot of Wellington v ChCh v Auckland chatter and not nearly enough discussion about what an absolutely trash ‘city’ Tauranga is.

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@boxcar_joey

4 months

Critics of public funding for journalism never engage with the undeniable truth that there is a market failure here. Investigative and 'public affairs journalism has large positive externalities. There are huge losses from letting it be produced at the market clearing price. 1/5

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@boxcar_joey

2 years

National: we will build public housing in order to clear the wait list Also National: we are seeking guarantees that no public housing be built

Stuff

@NZStuff

2 years

The prospect of a $200 million dollar development of 262 apartments on Sonning Car Park in Claudelands, possibly part-funded by Kainga Ora, has residents worried.

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@boxcar_joey

9 months

Given all the speculation of what Dr Bloomfield would do post DG role (politics, international orgs, academia, governance and speaker grind) it's heartening to see him embracing the highest calling of all: poster.

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@boxcar_joey

8 months

If there wasn't a bridge there now, would we be willing to pay $52 million to build one? Absolutely not. Don't get caught up in status quo bias. Demolish the thing.

Joel MacManus

@JoelMacManus

8 months

Thinking about her today.... A big choice for the council: Will y demolish the City to Sea Bridge, or pump $52m into fixing it?

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@boxcar_joey

6 months

High density housing around the Basin Reserve? Alright you son of a bitch, I'm in.

Wellington.Scoop

@ScoopWellington

6 months

Support for high-density housing around Basin Reserve

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@boxcar_joey

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@PopulismUpdates

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@boxcar_joey

5 months

Government set to retract freedom of people to build homes on land they own.

Newshub Politics

@NewshubPolitics

5 months

Government set to give councils freedom to opt out of housing density rules

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@boxcar_joey

1 year

Labour: bread and butter National: steak and potatoes TPM: kina and kūmara Greens: oat milk and weed ACT: guns and ammo TOP: GMO grains and cats NZF: smokes and horses

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@boxcar_joey

2 years

Very frustrating to have to spend several days tutoring my family on New Zealand public policy debates so we are ready to argue about it in Christmas.

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@boxcar_joey

1 year

Weirdest thing about the whole Ben Bell thing is I still haven't seen any even remotely specific criticism relating to the last few months. It remains entirely unclear what it actually was that made councilors feel they needed to seek his removal. It's just strange.

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@boxcar_joey

5 months

I’m going to become the joker

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@boxcar_joey

4 months

@StatisticUrban

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@boxcar_joey

4 months

☠️☠️☠️

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@boxcar_joey

1 year

Kids, amiright?

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@boxcar_joey

2 years

Just saw the leaked poll results. All I'll say is this: when you look beyond the headline numbers and put it in context of recent events, this is actually a very promising poll for my political allies and one that likely has my political opponents very concerned.

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@boxcar_joey

1 year

It brings me no joy to report this, but it turns out Max Key was a low interest rate phenomenon.

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@boxcar_joey

9 months

Regular dumb take from people that want to sound smart is "we need to take politics out of this inherently political thing"

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4 months

Happy 0th Anniversary of Wellington Housing Enablement Day for all who celebrate.

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@boxcar_joey

10 months

Fellas, is it Marxist to want to be able walk to shops and amenities?

Thomas Coughlan

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10 months

Winston Peters on 20 minute cities: 20 minute cities sound like a control mechanism to keep you in place. These people are Marxist control freaks.

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@boxcar_joey

1 year

Every time I go to Auckland Me: wow great to see such vibrancy and diversity and devopment, and this area is actually a lot more pleasant and walkable than I expected Me, after walking 50 metres away: what cursed soulless car-ridden hellscape have I entered.

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@boxcar_joey

2 years

When we're spending $200m on a refurbished cbd library but our suburban libraries are only open 2.5 hours all weekend I'm not sure we've got our priorities straight.

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@boxcar_joey

9 months

@JulieAnneGenter (I'm just making a silly internet joke at the expense of a formally very online greens candidate).

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@boxcar_joey

9 months

@keith_ng If they is no difference why did you pay a lawyer to create this structure for you?

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@boxcar_joey

8 months

One way you know cranks like @charles_finny are wrong when they claim the Wellington cbd is dying, is that every time something closes and they blame in on two parking spots 300 metres away getting removed, the site gets leased in like two weeks.

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@boxcar_joey

2 months

If Fran abandons his base by not returning to Twitter he should get challenged by another poster in 2026

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@boxcar_joey

2 years

Me: we should let in more immigrants Lefties: but they won’t get paid enough Me: I say we let them decide if the pay is enough to improve their lives Ls: but they might be exploited Me: let’s enforce labour laws Ls: sorry employers are just bad guys checkmate

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@boxcar_joey

10 months

Feel like pure shit just want her back x

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@boxcar_joey

3 months

@GeorgistSteve @LibsSuckaBigOne Immigrants and things being sold on the street! Truly not the New York I know.

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@boxcar_joey

1 year

$0 for DOC operations $0 for rapid transit $160 million for video games $0 for further parental leave someone who is good at Budget please help my country is dying

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@boxcar_joey

1 year

Some personal news comrades . I've recently parted ways with the Five-Eyes backed RNZ due to editorial differences. If anyone knows of any openings in media not beholden to the Biden-Soros-NATO-WEF cabal please lmk.

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@boxcar_joey

5 months

How is it possible to be an academic raising concerns about the health risks of a policy/trend and not refer, even in passing, to any evidence suggesting these impacts occur? This is why no serious people working or undertaking advocacy in this space pay attention to academics

Newsroom

@NewsroomNZ

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The urgency of the housing crisis has led to a surge in large-scale developments. While that's commendable, what does it mean for the health of their residents?

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@boxcar_joey

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Mrs Boxcar: so what’s up with this IHP report thing? Me: So in 1977 Parliament passed a new Town and Country Planning Act …

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@boxcar_joey

4 months

Starting to worry this is all an extremely vivid dream.

Joel MacManus

@JoelMacManus

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The Gordon Wilson flats no longer have heritage protections.

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@boxcar_joey

3 months

Gonna get me cancelled by the woke brigade, but despite the hilarity of the corporate speak in some places, Governments coming up with public lists of the things they are going to and then tracking if they do them is a good thing.

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@boxcar_joey

9 months

No point in investing in bike storage as it just induces demand for biking and gets filled up and you're back to where you started with it being hard to find a place to park your bike.

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@boxcar_joey

2 years

Crime solves this

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2 years

If we don’t fuck it up, New Zealand could become a country very skilled at build tons of houses efficiently.

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@boxcar_joey

22 days

Insane that couldn't be bothered to find a single first time home buyer who would say 'I am happy that I was able to afford a home for family. If prices had continued to rise I couldn't have done that. Do you see my adorable children playing over there?

Townhouses, new builds: What's hurting Auckland's housing market?

House values have dropped for the past two months. Could townhouses be the cause?

www.rnz.co.nz

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@boxcar_joey

9 months

Best example of induced demand isn't roads it's home freezer capacity. In my entire life I've never seen a freezer that wasn't full.

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@boxcar_joey

2 years

Truly every parents dream is to one day be able to look at their children and say , “their production per hour worked is well in excess of both overall and industry averages, even once accounting for capital intensity.”

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@AmbChina2NZ

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2 years

Oh yeah just plane loads of tourists from all over the world so they can do a walking tour of Herne Bay. Best $10,000 they’ve ever spent.

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@boxcar_joey

6 months

There is this whole ‘we are too over protective of kids these days’ thing which always obscures the fact that in the good old days lot more kids actually died.

No Human Contact

@Dunedinshi64071

6 months

@nz_voter Maybe. But the cars that were on the road had far worse brakes than today's vehicles. But hey, gotta keep wrapping them kids in cotton. The way things are going we'll soon have people employed to hold our hands as we cross the road.

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@boxcar_joey

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People will be like 'wah wah New Zealand is overrun with tourists', but this a world class tramping experience and six people did it today. You don't have to go to Roy's Peak and the Tongariro Crossing.

Boxcar 🦫

@boxcar_joey

7 months

Corner Peak. Outstanding day walk. Sorry picture quality is bad.