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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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Jessica de Heij @jdeheij.bsky.social · 2h
Wide pedestrian spaces also means sunny walks for the elderly 😇
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Jessica de Heij @jdeheij.bsky.social · 2h
Gotta love this kind of campaigning! 😁🚲👏
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Jessica de Heij @jdeheij.bsky.social · 2h
Perfect day for it. 😍
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Jessica de Heij @jdeheij.bsky.social · 20h
🎶
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Jessica de Heij @jdeheij.bsky.social · 21h
Love some good comms. Every few weeks Councillor Doug Hall here in Ōtepoti puts an ad in either the ODT (or the neighbourhood paper, in this case). Explains the work he does, or in this case break down rates. 👏👏 so important as the usual suspects are complaining about cost of bike lanes atm. 🙄
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Jessica de Heij @jdeheij.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
For Ōtepoti Dunedin; submissions closing tomorrow! Don’t miss out! 📣 Have your say on the 30-year vision for walking, wheeling and cycling. www.dunedin.govt.nz/do-it-online...
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Jessica de Heij @jdeheij.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Our local city centre countdown getting a bit of an upgrade. More loading, but also proper bike parking! 👏
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Jessica de Heij @jdeheij.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
That’s why I was feeling a bit warm. 26.5 DEGREES ATM!!🥵
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Jessica de Heij @jdeheij.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
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Jessica de Heij @jdeheij.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Could be worth an ask if they are open to long term 😁 And the weather isn’t so bad, as most Aucklanders say…😅
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Jessica de Heij @jdeheij.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Ōtepoti knows what’s up! 📸; by Save Our Trains
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Jessica de Heij @jdeheij.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Need an ice coffee while I’m already sweltering in the heat and planting natives. Goal this summer; more plants, less grass. 😅
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Jessica de Heij @jdeheij.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
$3.60! Not sure it’s been ever that high. 🫣And only a couple of a weeks ago it was just $3.
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Jessica de Heij @jdeheij.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
In this case traffic flowing means, safe passage for people walking and cycling 👏🚲🚶‍♀️
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Jessica de Heij @jdeheij.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
God, I love good signage 😍 blame the marketeer in me. 😁 👏👏
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Jessica de Heij @jdeheij.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I’m not an early riser, but these skies are pretty special at 6.30am 😍
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Jessica de Heij @jdeheij.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Early morning bus sausage🚌🌭
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Jessica de Heij @jdeheij.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
My little natives have arrived! 😍
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Jessica de Heij @jdeheij.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Simeon could never…..
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Jessica de Heij @jdeheij.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
#dunnerstunner 😎
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Jessica de Heij @jdeheij.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“White elephant”
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Jessica de Heij @jdeheij.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🔈
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Jessica de Heij @jdeheij.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Great point by Clr. Steve Walker. Yes, heritage is important, but shouldn’t come at the cost of a human life.
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Jessica de Heij @jdeheij.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
lol @fran4dunedin.bsky.social is at it again. Thank god, because even my friends were like “Jess what did you do” ….the plot thickens🤣🙃
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Jessica de Heij @jdeheij.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
LET’S ROCK THE VOTE!! 🎸🤘 How good is Ōtepoti, eh! And yes, this is a rock concert with enrolment booth this weekend. 🗳️
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Jessica de Heij @jdeheij.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Just spreading some propaganda @ WOOF #otepotipathwaysstrategy
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Jessica de Heij @jdeheij.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Skye is a rockstar and we are very lucky with her right here in Ōtepoti Dunedin. 💕🚶‍♀️🛴🚲🌆😍
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Jessica de Heij @jdeheij.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
More taxes and a bigger government. Madness 🤭
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Jessica de Heij @jdeheij.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Seagull acting like a bollard 😂 and slowing down cars going from 30-40kmh to about 10kmh (the actual speed limit).
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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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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
Dunners is the place to be 😉 Although, this morning a chilly 8 degrees. I feel spring, is a bit spring-ier this year.
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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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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 · 26/09/2026
Sounds like enforcement took a day off….
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Jessica de Heij @jdeheij.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Bus ads are actually quite good as they are being seen by lots of people. Ads are more like an awareness piece. A way to get your name out there. Saw this by @rachelbrooking.bsky.social and team, I haven’t spotted a bus with that ad yet though.
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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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Jessica de Heij @jdeheij.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Yeah, but is he paying for $1.2 billion (if it’s not even more by now) ? And we don’t need a car bridge to the city from the water front. I’d rather just have a Wynyard quarter 2.0 😁 www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin...
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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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Jessica de Heij @jdeheij.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A beaut 😍 #dunnerstunner
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Jessica de Heij @jdeheij.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#nzpol
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Jessica de Heij @jdeheij.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Bar is very cozy though.
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Jessica de Heij @jdeheij.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This one is relatively new. Opened a year ago I think. But very busy. www.instagram.com/piccolo_dune...
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Jessica de Heij @jdeheij.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Hell of a week, but cocktail bar 7-minute bike ride away. 😎 #negroniforthewin
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Jessica de Heij @jdeheij.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Jessica de Heij @jdeheij.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Is this an actual Dutch roundabout? Seems safe crossings for pedestrians and bikes. New roundabout at the intersection of Onehunga Mall and Grey Street (Auckland).
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Jessica de Heij @jdeheij.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The actual transformation. 👏
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Jessica de Heij @jdeheij.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
An Urbanerds Heritage Tour of the Standard Building. Amazing transformation, with more than 10 years of restoration and some very interesting insights, especially how hard some of the regulations can be.
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Jessica de Heij @jdeheij.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Not sure your truck can be any bigger! 🫣 ACTIVATE THE BOLLARDS!
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Jessica de Heij @jdeheij.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Yep. This was a learning process aswell. I can’t count how many small trees I have seen in Auckland city knocked over by cars and left empty like this!
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