Yvette Taylor
@yvettect.bsky.social
Curiously, I haven't seen boomers complaining about the loss of 200 car parks on Vivian St..
Comments open on proposal to spend $38B or more on new tunnels for central Wellington to maybe save 10 minutes for cars and add time to other travel modes. BCR by NZTA = 1.0 Or no Benefits over Costs.
Please add comments. FYI @greaterauckland.bsky.social
#NZpol
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Please add comments. FYI @greaterauckland.bsky.social
#NZpol
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...
Big parties keen on $3.8b Wellington tunnels - but what do you think?
A four-week ‘engagement’ period has started for the project that is intended to make travel easier through downtown Wellington.
www.stuff.co.nz
November 18, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Curiously, I haven't seen boomers complaining about the loss of 200 car parks on Vivian St..
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Wellington's failure to build an obviously needed upgrade to its dilapidated main streets is a damning and demonstrative example of a capital city self-immolating through incompetence and political cowardice.
November 14, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Wellington's failure to build an obviously needed upgrade to its dilapidated main streets is a damning and demonstrative example of a capital city self-immolating through incompetence and political cowardice.
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The conservative minority on Wellington City Council never had the votes to kill the Golden Mile, so instead they played for time, demanding more reviews and consultation to delay it until a conservative won the mayoralty. Andrew Little has played right into their hands.
November 14, 2025 at 11:27 PM
The conservative minority on Wellington City Council never had the votes to kill the Golden Mile, so instead they played for time, demanding more reviews and consultation to delay it until a conservative won the mayoralty. Andrew Little has played right into their hands.
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It cost Casey Costello $4500 to hire a room to meet with Irish anti-trans activist Helen Joyce. $1000 for a council social event to unveil a painting is peanuts & much more positive bc it involves sthg tangible (painting) & supports a local artist.
November 11, 2025 at 1:51 AM
It cost Casey Costello $4500 to hire a room to meet with Irish anti-trans activist Helen Joyce. $1000 for a council social event to unveil a painting is peanuts & much more positive bc it involves sthg tangible (painting) & supports a local artist.
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Greens, socialists and other leftist opponents of zoning liberalisation insist on big spending on social housing instead.
Their mistake is viewing upzoning as an alternative to social housing.
No, it is a precondition.
Their mistake is viewing upzoning as an alternative to social housing.
No, it is a precondition.
Zoning reform measures have divided tenant advocates in New York. Yet loosening the city’s anti-housing regime is essential if we ever want to build social housing at scale.
You Can’t Have Social Housing Without Building Housing
Zoning reform measures have divided tenant advocates in New York. Yet loosening the city’s anti-housing regime is essential if we ever want to build social housing at scale.
jacobin.com
November 2, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Greens, socialists and other leftist opponents of zoning liberalisation insist on big spending on social housing instead.
Their mistake is viewing upzoning as an alternative to social housing.
No, it is a precondition.
Their mistake is viewing upzoning as an alternative to social housing.
No, it is a precondition.
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The fact that people are allowed to store their cars in the street is really weird - after all, a car is an individual's own private property and their responsibility. I can't think of a single other item you can store in public in this way.
October 21, 2025 at 4:55 PM
The fact that people are allowed to store their cars in the street is really weird - after all, a car is an individual's own private property and their responsibility. I can't think of a single other item you can store in public in this way.
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It won’t be the big story today and I am not the big winner, but so proud of my team. Even with a shift to a different party, we won 1386 more first preferences than last election. All without saying a bad word against anyone. Thank you 💚
October 16, 2025 at 11:20 PM
It won’t be the big story today and I am not the big winner, but so proud of my team. Even with a shift to a different party, we won 1386 more first preferences than last election. All without saying a bad word against anyone. Thank you 💚
Mums and dad's across NZ already own the assets when they're in public ownership
I remember when asset sales were gonna lead to mum and dad shareholders and now we just have mum and dad paying $500 power bills in the winter. The right wing ideology is a scam. It’s a pyramid scheme. It’s useless. It improves nothing.
October 10, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Mums and dad's across NZ already own the assets when they're in public ownership
NZ city life too.
Motonormativity in action: my city's main hospital has been built miles outside the city, up by a motorway junction. You want to get there but you can't drive? Tough, your time has no value
September 28, 2025 at 7:37 AM
NZ city life too.
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I want to emphasise the importance of anyone with a progressive or even a fair-minded bone in their body in the Wharangi Onslow-Western ward giving me their first preference. Please hit up friends in Karori, Ngaio, Wilton, Northland, Wadestown, Khandallah etc to check they voted
September 21, 2025 at 8:03 AM
I want to emphasise the importance of anyone with a progressive or even a fair-minded bone in their body in the Wharangi Onslow-Western ward giving me their first preference. Please hit up friends in Karori, Ngaio, Wilton, Northland, Wadestown, Khandallah etc to check they voted
10/10
You know, when you really think about it, does all that driving and car dependency really make sense? @adamconover.net weighed in.
Adam Conover - Driving cars is insane
YouTube video by Interstellar1977
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September 27, 2025 at 7:50 AM
10/10
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Feel like our priorities on what's urgent may be a bit skewed
September 27, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Feel like our priorities on what's urgent may be a bit skewed
Imagine if this was a story about how the motorway system hadnt been built in Auckland, and how the central city and suburbs like Newton, western springs, Newmarket, Greenlane weren't destroyed
'Sometimes, the most important infrastructure projects are the ones you never build.'
archive.ph/7xe5J
archive.ph/7xe5J
How an abandoned Hagley Park motorway transformed Christchurch
Hagley Park nearly got a motorway. The project’s tangled history, full of twists and turns, permanently altered the shape of the city.
www.thepress.co.nz
September 20, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Imagine if this was a story about how the motorway system hadnt been built in Auckland, and how the central city and suburbs like Newton, western springs, Newmarket, Greenlane weren't destroyed
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Better Wellington were aggressive and abusive toward Rebecca. An audience member said many there felt unsafe.
This abuse is no longer limited to the internet and why I haven't attended these events. Imagine a council dominated by BW and Independent Together. We can't let this happen. #nzpol
This abuse is no longer limited to the internet and why I haven't attended these events. Imagine a council dominated by BW and Independent Together. We can't let this happen. #nzpol
Better Wellington turned out in force for the Khandallah Meet the Candidates . Results as you would expect.
September 16, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Better Wellington were aggressive and abusive toward Rebecca. An audience member said many there felt unsafe.
This abuse is no longer limited to the internet and why I haven't attended these events. Imagine a council dominated by BW and Independent Together. We can't let this happen. #nzpol
This abuse is no longer limited to the internet and why I haven't attended these events. Imagine a council dominated by BW and Independent Together. We can't let this happen. #nzpol
Hard out
People attack Rebecca because she actually gets shit done, she’s across all the issues and a formidable Councillor. Everyone should be telling their friends that live in the Western Ward that their only good option is #1 Rebecca Matthews
A couple of people have shared a disgusting post Better Wellington have made about me today. Three things: I will never attack my colleagues or anyone like they do, I am sad that others think it’s ok, and I have no intention of backing down on my work for the city and our people
September 14, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Hard out
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Ironically the Regulatory Takings clause in the proposed Planning Act would enable developers to sue the arse off Seymour for denying them the enjoyment of property rights
Here’s my Pick n’ Mixes hot off the virtual presses: David Seymour to campaign to block Chris Bishop's up-zoning of inner-city Auckland, including Epsom; "This plan is not necessary, and will have negative unintended consequences," he says #nzpol. thekaka.substack.com/p/libertaria...
Libertarian leader turns chief NIMBY
David Seymour to campaign to block Chris Bishop's up-zoning of inner-city Auckland, including Epsom; "This plan is not necessary, and will have negative unintended consequences," he says
thekaka.substack.com
September 3, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Ironically the Regulatory Takings clause in the proposed Planning Act would enable developers to sue the arse off Seymour for denying them the enjoyment of property rights
Crazy seeing roads in Wellington's city suburbs jammed with cars and owners only having to pay $300 per year for a permit. So much inner city public road space taken up for private use to the detriment of public transport, cycling etc, but very little incentive for car owners to change
And Parking Minimums never need to return to ANY planning documents either.
The US is fast removing them, EU and Japan already banished them
What is missing is the second half of the policy
The Japan Policy
NO ON STREET PARKING nor can you own a car unless you can prove it can be stored off street
The US is fast removing them, EU and Japan already banished them
What is missing is the second half of the policy
The Japan Policy
NO ON STREET PARKING nor can you own a car unless you can prove it can be stored off street
September 3, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Crazy seeing roads in Wellington's city suburbs jammed with cars and owners only having to pay $300 per year for a permit. So much inner city public road space taken up for private use to the detriment of public transport, cycling etc, but very little incentive for car owners to change
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What does it take to move 1000 people? Better infrastructure supporting mobility choices that don’t take up so much space (or produce so much emissions/pollution, cost so much public money, etc).
Graphic via Seattle Subway based on a Sydney graphic I spread around years ago.
Graphic via Seattle Subway based on a Sydney graphic I spread around years ago.
September 2, 2025 at 5:13 AM
What does it take to move 1000 people? Better infrastructure supporting mobility choices that don’t take up so much space (or produce so much emissions/pollution, cost so much public money, etc).
Graphic via Seattle Subway based on a Sydney graphic I spread around years ago.
Graphic via Seattle Subway based on a Sydney graphic I spread around years ago.
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"24 year old planning student got up and said he lives in a damp mouldy flat in a special character area and older people are preventing the change we need. Troy Churton, from a local board, started shouting at him." NIMBYS ARE PSYCHOPATHS.
Time to get going starting with Mt Eden. Time Auckland grew up and the Herald to get with the picture.
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland/...
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland/...
'Council has a gun to its head': Local leaders urge pressure on Govt at Akl housing protest meeting
Nearly 600 Mt Eden and Kingsland properties are set to lose Special Character status.
www.nzherald.co.nz
August 29, 2025 at 12:25 AM
"24 year old planning student got up and said he lives in a damp mouldy flat in a special character area and older people are preventing the change we need. Troy Churton, from a local board, started shouting at him." NIMBYS ARE PSYCHOPATHS.
The big question is why did they decide to change the plan for the hierarchy of comparators to remove those from outside the sector or industry..when they were originally going to be included? All the advice is redacted. This effectively wipes out a teachers claim, so it would be very good to know.
I've spent all morning reading these docs and its totally outrageous. There's about zero mention of the benefits of life changing pay equity settlements and how it is a GOOD THING!
Let’s call it what it is. Scrapping pay equity claims for women, then saying limiting human rights is “justified” to protect employers, isn’t neutral. It’s misogyny baked into lawmaking. #nzpol
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
August 1, 2025 at 12:11 AM
The big question is why did they decide to change the plan for the hierarchy of comparators to remove those from outside the sector or industry..when they were originally going to be included? All the advice is redacted. This effectively wipes out a teachers claim, so it would be very good to know.
I've spent all morning reading these docs and its totally outrageous. There's about zero mention of the benefits of life changing pay equity settlements and how it is a GOOD THING!
Let’s call it what it is. Scrapping pay equity claims for women, then saying limiting human rights is “justified” to protect employers, isn’t neutral. It’s misogyny baked into lawmaking. #nzpol
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
New documents show how ministers pushed through controversial pay equity changes
Officials looked at proposals such as phasing in settlements over three years instead of paying the full amount upfront, and removing backpay.
www.stuff.co.nz
August 1, 2025 at 12:10 AM
I've spent all morning reading these docs and its totally outrageous. There's about zero mention of the benefits of life changing pay equity settlements and how it is a GOOD THING!
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More detail on our plan here 💚
June 17, 2025 at 5:47 AM
More detail on our plan here 💚
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The absolute number one thing the city council can do for public transport is bus lanes, including most crucially the Golden Mile, Harbour Quays and eastern suburbs connection. Serious candidates committed to public transport need to commit to advancing the bus priority plan with no more delays. 2/
May 19, 2025 at 8:12 AM
The absolute number one thing the city council can do for public transport is bus lanes, including most crucially the Golden Mile, Harbour Quays and eastern suburbs connection. Serious candidates committed to public transport need to commit to advancing the bus priority plan with no more delays. 2/