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Jessica de Heij

@jdeheij.bsky.social
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15-minute cities advocacy | Urbanism | Sustainability | 🇳🇱🇳🇿 Views are my own 📍Ōtepoti Dunedin, NZ

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NZ Transit Buzz @nztransitbuzz.bsky.social · 4h
#BusNews: From October 1, NZTA has introduced new rules that require road users to give way to buses leaving bus stops. On roads with a 60km/h or lower speed limit, if bus drivers are leaving a bus stop, the side of the road or moving out of a bus lane, other drivers must give way to the bus.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 6h
Your city could embrace a patio/street seating culture if it really wanted to. You don’t have to be like Paris to do better, you just have to WANT to do better. Between now and next summer, your city could put in place everything it needs to transform streets as people-places. So do you want to?
Street filled with cafe seating in Paris.
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Ben McNulty @ponekeben.bsky.social · 4h
How to remove the heritage protection on a rusting hunk of junk under the RMA: You'll need 2.5 years, a unanimous council vote, letters to the relevant Minister, a co-operative government, an independent economic investigation, further consultation and you're done. Easy.
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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 17h
Never forget, when it comes to whether or not a collision happens, and whether or not someone is killed or injured, speed is ALWAYS a factor. #UrbanTruth #SpeedKills
Background shows a collision involving cars and drivers. Texting quotes says “speed wasn’t a factor” which is what police and media often say when someone wasn’t obviously speeding, even when the speed limit is too high. Bottom tag line says “Speed is always a factor.” Via the Urban Truth Collective.
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Megan @mharvey.bsky.social · 17h
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On the Fence 2026
On The Fence helps Kiwis get started on their political journey. Answer a series of questions on the issues that matter most to you, and we'll show you which political parties share your values.
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James Nisbet @bandit.nz · 18h
Fuck around, find out. I'm happy to see this one #nzpol www.1news.co.nz/2026/09/30/n...
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NZ hit with landmark EU trade complaint, minister rejects claim
The most extreme consequences for New Zealand could be losing access to the lucrative European market.
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Jessica de Heij @jdeheij.bsky.social · 19h
More electric busses for Ōtepoti reaching 77% of the fleet being electric! 🚌 ⚡️ “From 1 October, 37 new electric buses will join the Dunedin Orbus network, replacing diesel buses on Go Bus routes. That will bring the number of electric buses in Dunedin to 61 out of 79 – around 77% of the fleet!”
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Tim Jenkins @timj69.bsky.social · 19h
Who would’ve thought it? Build decent public transport and people use it.
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Jessica de Heij @jdeheij.bsky.social · 19h
More taxes and a bigger government. Madness 🤭
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Jessica de Heij @jdeheij.bsky.social · 23h
Seagull acting like a bollard 😂 and slowing down cars going from 30-40kmh to about 10kmh (the actual speed limit).
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120 Aotearoa @120aotearoa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Curious as to when the debates are? Here's a calendar! First up, the Stuff "Kingmakers" debate on Thursday via stuff.co.nz
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GeorgeWeeks2014 @georgeweeks2014.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Public toilets are something that New Zealand typically does very well...until now. Public toilets in South Island now charge $1.50 per use, so people are "going" around the back of the bogs 🤢 This shows the absurdity of "keep the rates low". The end cost is higher. www.rnz.co.nz/news/regions...
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Jessica de Heij @jdeheij.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This doesn’t seem to be a bottom line 🤔
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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Along with others, I've had a bit to say about Simeon Brown's deranged 2024 Transport GPS. But this is actually shocking. It was altered *after the consultation period* to make the books look better – in a way that wrecks the National Land Transport Fund. www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2026/09/29/t...
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Transport borrowing comes back to bite - Greater Auckland
Today, Treasury is releasing the Pre-election Economic and Fiscal Update (or PREFU) ahead of the election. So I figured it was worth looking at a significant recent change to the way transport expendi...
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Akl City Centre Residents' Group @ccrg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Pinball popping
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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
TOP is basically your Corporate Social Responsibility department. They want to socialise with liberals who are nice and who tell them they are nice, but are scared of setting real bottom-line fights over values in front of the right (i.e. their bosses) who are mean, because that's who pays them.
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Jolisa Gracewood @nzdodo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Just saying… #nzpol
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Dr Jeremy Walker @jeremywalker.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#Atlas Info request: does anyone know of any research critically investigating the Atlas Network planted ‘partner’ think tanks in Japan, Indonesia, India, Korea, Phillipines, Malaysia and elsewhere in Asia? If so pls do drop me a link or reference below!
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120 Aotearoa @120aotearoa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Party Vote | 1News-Verian National: 28% (-1) Labour: 28% (-2) Green: 16% (+4) ACT: 11% (+2) NZ First: 9% (+1) Opportunity: 6% (-2) TPM: 1% (-) D: TBC | R: TBC. +/- August 2026.
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Jessica de Heij @jdeheij.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You can already see a big difference comparing my old hood Eden Terrace vs Ponsonby.
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Tim Welch @tfwelch.com · 28/09/2026
We're on a mission to map and catalog every tree in New Zealand, creating a complete digital record of its entire life. ALTO, the Aotearoa Long-term Tree Observatory, is over 6.2 millions trees strong and growing! Check out the Auckland release: alto.tfwelch.com
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kororā @davejac.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Greens surge and Fran hasn’t even done any crimes
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Chris Slane @slanecartoon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
No new taxes... #NZpol #Listener #cartoon
Luxon: "No new taxes"Cartoon depicts PM Luxon on an election podium in fron of an audience. Luxon: "No new taxes."
Various audience members heckle: 
"Or nurses
Or Police
Or Ferries
Or houses
Or equal pay
Or libraries
Or Bridges
Or ideas."
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 28/09/2026
But there are advantages to living somewhere so wild. Ōtepoti Dunedin #WildDunedin
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Jessica de Heij @jdeheij.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It’s here! Thanks to a lovely friend from Tāmaki Makaurau (you know who you are 🎉🎉) getting it from the Auckland University Bookshop and sending it to me. Looking forward to reading it this weekend. 😄
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Jessica de Heij @jdeheij.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It’s a bit windy, eh!
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Fluffy Puppy's Windy Walk
ALT: Fluffy Puppy's Windy Walk
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Paul Le Comte 🇳🇿🇨🇦📷 @paullecomtephoto.nz · 27/09/2026
Good god, it's only 11°C in Auckland! Youse fellas ok, need Red Cross packages?
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Jessica de Heij @jdeheij.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Some people find my choice of tea habits questionable. But once they try it, they never go back to boring tea again. 🙃
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Cyn @cyncharron.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If you’ve got kids studying in Dunedin who aren’t yet enrolled to vote, encourage them to get along to this all ages, alcohol free, voter enrolment music festival. Loads of really great bands in the lineup! (Yes including my kid, but genuinely, lots of great talent.) #nzpol
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Rock The Vote - Live at Southern Lights
An outdoor music festival to encourage youth voter enrolment . raise the youth vote! all ages / alcohol free
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Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
‘He claimed the New Zealand Taxpayers' Union did a lot of the groundwork for the party in the 2020 election with their Campaign for Affordable Housing to fight the Green Party's proposal for an asset tax.’ from 2021. #NzPol
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Ex-ACT staffer Grant McLachlan says party created fake grassroots groups
Political pundits and media experts are warning that artificial grassroots organisations - nicknamed "astroturfs" - are being used to manipulate and mobilise public opinion for political gain.
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Philip Oldfield @sustainabletall.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Adaptive reuse of a parking garage originally built in 1957, into 63 new apartments in Paris Includes three new storeys built of lightweight timber and steel added on top of the existing building. A thread 🧵 Before After
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Jolisa Gracewood @nzdodo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Ah yes – the ancient chorus of hoarders of wealth (and those too easily persuaded there is no value in pooling our resources to achieve the greater good)... #nzpol
Smaug, atop an immense hoard of gold, saying "no new taxes".
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Jessica de Heij @jdeheij.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Read the latest Dunedin Tracks and Trails newsletter (which is brilliant by the way 🙃) and if you are keen to be added, do let me know. :) Also David Hood's (@thoughtfulnz.bsky.social) great data is being mentioned and of course the Ōtepoti Pathways Strategy which is now open for submissions!
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We need your help! 🚲
Welcome to another edition of the Dunedin Tracks and Trails newsletter! This month we're looking at how Dunedin is moving. The draft Ōtepoti Pathways Strategy is open for submissions, and it's a real chance to tell Council that the connections between our streets and trails matter just as much as the trails themselves. Also, a new shared pathway between Outram and the Taieri Historical Park is nearly ready to explore, the result of years of community effort.
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Jessica de Heij @jdeheij.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Banana loaf with cinnamon butter @ ADJØ. Yumm Yumm 😋
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Jessica de Heij @jdeheij.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Is trump copying the NZ government, or is the nz government copying trump? 🤔
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Jessica de Heij @jdeheij.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is what happens when fines are so cheap (sometimes you only get a $10-20 fine, but max is $70) and you have a low chance of actually getting a fine.
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Jessica de Heij @jdeheij.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Sounds like enforcement took a day off….
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Dutch Cycling Embassy @dutchcycling.nl · 26/09/2026
🚨 New study alert, What happens when e-bikes become more affordable? 🚲 A new research from British Columbia, Canada, looked at the impact of e-bikes incentives across 1,004 recipients in an income-tiered e-bike rebate programme. Read it here: buff.ly/6GjyHW4
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Fietser Brandon @americanfietser.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I'm 1.94m tall and I want this as our car for regional errands, paired with our e-cargo bikes that we use for local errands. Trips further out and the math makes sense to rent a larger vehicle. Smaller and practical design makes sense on our streets and our budgets. 📽️ @electricfelix.eurosky.social
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I biked in this @ibikedinthis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Even if they’re heels 👠
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World Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It’s a 9️⃣.5️⃣ from the #WorldBollardAssociation
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Ben Ross @benakl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Pàra @para14.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Judge not on the data centres that are announced. Judge on the data centres that actually get built.
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Simon Wilson @simonbwilson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
At the heart of Nicky Hager’s book is a tale of how a group of cynical hard-right ideologues made racism a winning political platform, not because they’re white supremacists, but because it suited their interests. My Hopetown post is here #nzpol simonwilsonhopetown.substack.com/p/dirty-work...
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Dirty work and the disinfecting sunshine it deserves
Nicky Hager’s new book ‘Dirty Work’ reminds us how much we’ve lost in the last three years
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
You really would think that nations, and even cities for that matter, would rethink the temptation to flirt with far-right populist “reform” politicians selling “change” after watching the corrupt, fascist dumpster fire that is Donald Trump. Hurricanes are change. A flesh-eating disease is change.
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☽✮..Lady Jaide Dee ..✮☾ @witchnwords.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It's Daylight Savings Tonight in AoNZ Just in case you had forgotten like I had. This is not a wonderful week to be feeling timelagged but I think it's a little late to ask them to change it.
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Jessica de Heij @jdeheij.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
That didn’t take long. Written in sharpie “liars”. It pretty much the only billboard I see. When you are bussing or biking they tend to just place the signs at motorway entrances. A bit different to back home (NL) where we have dedicated spots and they are mostly in the city centre or at stations
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André Brett @drdrehistorian.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Australia should in fact be labelled "almost the Hutt"
The map of the Commonwealth of Westernmost Hutt that I've posted a billion times by now, which contains the correct names for every state and territory on the big continent west of the Greater Hutt archipelago
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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In terms of second and third drafts of history, the Hollow Men/Dirty Politics/Dirty Work trilogy would make a great political miniseries, like our House of Cards.
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Jessica de Heij @jdeheij.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Look at my Kōwhai blooming already! Only planted 8 months ago and just 30cm high, but doing so well. Also, I can’t believe that it’s now officially a year that I owned my first home (and still loving it)! 🥰 P.S. can AI do garden maintenance and make me a patio? 🙃
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