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.
Super interesting speech by Transport Minister Bishop seemingly distancing himself from the roadsfest they ran on. www.beehive.govt.nz/speech/speec...
www.beehive.govt.nz
November 18, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Super interesting speech by Transport Minister Bishop seemingly distancing himself from the roadsfest they ran on. www.beehive.govt.nz/speech/speec...
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Sorry you had to wait 10 months for your cancer surgery – a politician needed to save 10 minutes getting to the airport.
$4 BILLION to save 'up to 10 minutes' during peak traffic. Fucking hell - imagine what that $4B could do for housing, education, health, etc, in Aotearoa.
November 17, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Sorry you had to wait 10 months for your cancer surgery – a politician needed to save 10 minutes getting to the airport.
Auckland’s PT *network* “easily the best in Australia” 🔫 thespinoff.co.nz/society/17-1...
Controversial: Public transport in Auckland is actually pretty good
Though it might be a controversial opinion, these days public transport in Auckland is in many respects fine, and in a number of areas, bordering on good.
thespinoff.co.nz
November 16, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Auckland’s PT *network* “easily the best in Australia” 🔫 thespinoff.co.nz/society/17-1...
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Kind of wonderful to now have mainstream voices saying the things we spent so long being ridiculed for claiming:
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
November 15, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Kind of wonderful to now have mainstream voices saying the things we spent so long being ridiculed for claiming:
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
Congestion pricing moves forward with bi-partisan support. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Legislation allowing congestion charging passes third reading in Parliament
The Bill establishes a framework permitting local authorities to set up a congestion charging scheme, by notifying NZTA.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 11, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Congestion pricing moves forward with bi-partisan support. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
More Ws emerging. Mercury Lane former car sewer now mostly pedestrianised.
November 8, 2025 at 7:22 PM
More Ws emerging. Mercury Lane former car sewer now mostly pedestrianised.
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Momentum is gaining momentum. The railroad infrastructure framework developed by @ndhapple.bsky.social has gone bicoastal.
A new report from @calelectricrail.org shows how level boarding and electrified trains would transform transportation in SoCal.
benjaminschneider.substack.com/p/how-southe...
A new report from @calelectricrail.org shows how level boarding and electrified trains would transform transportation in SoCal.
benjaminschneider.substack.com/p/how-southe...
How Southern California would benefit from electric trains
Electrification and level boarding platforms can significantly improve rail travel on the west coast, too.
benjaminschneider.substack.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Momentum is gaining momentum. The railroad infrastructure framework developed by @ndhapple.bsky.social has gone bicoastal.
A new report from @calelectricrail.org shows how level boarding and electrified trains would transform transportation in SoCal.
benjaminschneider.substack.com/p/how-southe...
A new report from @calelectricrail.org shows how level boarding and electrified trains would transform transportation in SoCal.
benjaminschneider.substack.com/p/how-southe...
Australia: More Homes, better cities. Letting more people live where they want. (Image of how zoning constrains housing close to the centres of capital cities.) Link grattan.edu.au/wp-content/u...
November 5, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Australia: More Homes, better cities. Letting more people live where they want. (Image of how zoning constrains housing close to the centres of capital cities.) Link grattan.edu.au/wp-content/u...
Nice!
Baltimore just eliminated parking minimums, reduced lot line setbacks, and allowed single-stair buildings for buildings up to six stories
All without years of studies or prevarication. This is not just the path to rest belt revival, it is a model for cities nationwide
All without years of studies or prevarication. This is not just the path to rest belt revival, it is a model for cities nationwide
November 5, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Nice!
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They're calling it Woke 2.
November 5, 2025 at 5:32 AM
They're calling it Woke 2.
We’ve opened a trial version of this web app. Test the e-bike range, see the gaps in rapid transit, etc. census-sampler.mrcagney.works (user and login are “public”)
November 4, 2025 at 5:05 AM
We’ve opened a trial version of this web app. Test the e-bike range, see the gaps in rapid transit, etc. census-sampler.mrcagney.works (user and login are “public”)
The ol spend $.5 billion to move the bottleneck further downstream trick www.times.co.nz/business/at-...
AT responds to outrage of motorists
Auckland Transport is responding to an uproar from motorists following the first week of the new roading flyover being fully operational in Pakūranga. Last week, when people went back to work after th...
www.times.co.nz
October 31, 2025 at 8:49 PM
The ol spend $.5 billion to move the bottleneck further downstream trick www.times.co.nz/business/at-...
Subsidise e-bikes and home batteries !
Australia news live: home battery subsidy helped add 50% to capacity in four months as Labor hails ‘solar nation’
Australia news live: home battery subsidy helped add 50% to capacity in four months as Labor hails ‘solar nation’
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Climate change and energy minister Chris Bowen has declared Australia a “solar nation” after 100,000 households and small businesses have signed up to a government program to help install home batteries. The government says there has been a 50% jump in home battery capacity within four months of the program starting. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 26, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Subsidise e-bikes and home batteries !
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Australia news live: home battery subsidy helped add 50% to capacity in four months as Labor hails ‘solar nation’
Australia news live: home battery subsidy helped add 50% to capacity in four months as Labor hails ‘solar nation’
Follow the day’s news live
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Australia must ‘step up to prevent catastrophic and preventable loss of life’ amid Trump cuts, former CDC boss says
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Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast
And welcome to another Sunday Guardian live blog.
Climate change and energy minister Chris Bowen has declared Australia a “solar nation” after 100,000 households and small businesses have signed up to a government program to help install home batteries. The government says there has been a 50% jump in home battery capacity within four months of the program starting. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 25, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Australia news live: home battery subsidy helped add 50% to capacity in four months as Labor hails ‘solar nation’
Never gonna happen. “Combined, that’s $18.2-22.1 billion – which is incredible for a road that for most of its length carries only 10-15,000 vehicles a day.” www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2025/10/21/r...
Reality bites: RoNS will bankrupt the nation - Greater Auckland
The government’s Yesterday’s funding announcement on preparatory work includes this for the East West link: Funding of $102m to progress design, consenting and route protection. Hamilton Southern Link...
www.greaterauckland.org.nz
October 20, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Never gonna happen. “Combined, that’s $18.2-22.1 billion – which is incredible for a road that for most of its length carries only 10-15,000 vehicles a day.” www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2025/10/21/r...
E-bikes as rapid transit. There is a sweet spot, 8-14km from the city centre, where gaps in the mass rapid transit network and slow buses can be filled by e-bikes. Map = 45 minute e-bike travel time.
October 8, 2025 at 9:20 PM
E-bikes as rapid transit. There is a sweet spot, 8-14km from the city centre, where gaps in the mass rapid transit network and slow buses can be filled by e-bikes. Map = 45 minute e-bike travel time.
15 months to get Stage 2 of Collie Battery in Australia going. 👀 Combined capacity = 560MW. esdnews.com.au/neoens-colli...
Neoen's Collie Battery Stage 2 goes operational in WA
Renewables giant Neoen has commenced operations at the 341MW/1,363MWh Collie Battery Stage 2 in Western Australia.
esdnews.com.au
October 7, 2025 at 10:14 PM
15 months to get Stage 2 of Collie Battery in Australia going. 👀 Combined capacity = 560MW. esdnews.com.au/neoens-colli...
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It's 2025 and our economic model is still reliant on maintaining a decent bufferstock of unemployed people. This model was *designed* to ensure that employers have the upper hand (and labour could be uberised). Govt distract us from this reality by bashing beneficiaries and abdicating responsibility
October 6, 2025 at 5:11 AM
It's 2025 and our economic model is still reliant on maintaining a decent bufferstock of unemployed people. This model was *designed* to ensure that employers have the upper hand (and labour could be uberised). Govt distract us from this reality by bashing beneficiaries and abdicating responsibility
Report “littered with errors including three nonexistent academic references” www.afr.com/companies/pr...
Deloitte to refund government, admits using AI in $440k report
Deloitte will issue a partial refund to the government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a report littered with errors.
www.afr.com
October 5, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Report “littered with errors including three nonexistent academic references” www.afr.com/companies/pr...
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NEW STARTER PACK! This time I’m hoping to encourage and support global urbanists from OUTSIDE North America here on Bluesky, so hopefully this will help! Who’ve I missed? Just joined? Let me know! I’ll keep updating, so please keep checking & sharing this pack! And let’s try using #GlobalUrbanists.
Urbanists OUTSIDE North America Worth Following!
Join the conversation
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September 28, 2025 at 7:54 AM
NEW STARTER PACK! This time I’m hoping to encourage and support global urbanists from OUTSIDE North America here on Bluesky, so hopefully this will help! Who’ve I missed? Just joined? Let me know! I’ll keep updating, so please keep checking & sharing this pack! And let’s try using #GlobalUrbanists.
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It's difficult to imagine Trump ruling any country other than America. If he did, he would be an international pariah. But because he is the President of the United States, foreign leaders are forced to pretend that he isn't an absolute lunatic. It's really something
Trump to the UN: "I'm really good at this stuff. Your countries are going to hell."
September 23, 2025 at 2:57 PM
It's difficult to imagine Trump ruling any country other than America. If he did, he would be an international pariah. But because he is the President of the United States, foreign leaders are forced to pretend that he isn't an absolute lunatic. It's really something
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Morning rush-hour near London's Oval station. Trains pass underground every few minutes and there's a continuous flood of bicycles, but still there's one lane of gridlocked traffic. Your city will always have exactly as much gridlock as it makes room for.
September 22, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Morning rush-hour near London's Oval station. Trains pass underground every few minutes and there's a continuous flood of bicycles, but still there's one lane of gridlocked traffic. Your city will always have exactly as much gridlock as it makes room for.
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The most underappreciated issue in urbanism is the Anglosphere’s transit construction cost problem.
It’s not just that we’re spending too much money on any particular project.
It’s that we could be getting *much more transit* for the *same amount of money we’re currently spending*.
It’s not just that we’re spending too much money on any particular project.
It’s that we could be getting *much more transit* for the *same amount of money we’re currently spending*.
How This Small City Built Light Rail For Cheap
YouTube video by Oh The Urbanity!
youtu.be
September 21, 2025 at 7:12 PM
The most underappreciated issue in urbanism is the Anglosphere’s transit construction cost problem.
It’s not just that we’re spending too much money on any particular project.
It’s that we could be getting *much more transit* for the *same amount of money we’re currently spending*.
It’s not just that we’re spending too much money on any particular project.
It’s that we could be getting *much more transit* for the *same amount of money we’re currently spending*.
Demand for housing in Auckland. knowledgeauckland.org.nz/publications...
September 22, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Demand for housing in Auckland. knowledgeauckland.org.nz/publications...
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This is Oxford Street, completely transformed & traffic-free. It was fantastic to see community spirit in the heart of the West End. By removing traffic, this created the space to stride, stroll and explore.
This street is for everyone to enjoy with music, art, food and fun.
This street is for everyone to enjoy with music, art, food and fun.
September 21, 2025 at 9:13 PM
This is Oxford Street, completely transformed & traffic-free. It was fantastic to see community spirit in the heart of the West End. By removing traffic, this created the space to stride, stroll and explore.
This street is for everyone to enjoy with music, art, food and fun.
This street is for everyone to enjoy with music, art, food and fun.