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Sharon Murdoch @domesticanimal.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A Dutch environmental group claims NZ has broken its climate change commitments made in the EU free trade agreement, and has filed a complaint through the European Commission. NZ govt is looking around for someone to blame. My #Cartoon today #NZpol #EUfreeTrade #ClimateChange

Cartoon. Title: “Patriot Games” PM Christopher Luxon and Trade Minister Todd McClay as schoolboys, looking surly. Luxon is saying, “Breaching the European Free Trade agreement?! What I want to know is who dobbed us in?!” McClay is saying, “Oooh, ha, watch yourself Chlöe” as she falls over his outstretched foote.w

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Mandy Hager @mandyh.bsky.social · 20h

www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6if... NB: there were at least 32 false or misleading statements made by PM Luxon (Hipkins 1, corrected in real time)

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The Leader's Debate: Fact Checked.

YouTube video by Paul… The Other One

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Greater Auckland @greaterauckland.bsky.social · 23h

"This is a timely book for Auckland. As our city becomes denser, its streets need to work harder. Car parking, which may previously have worked as a free-for-all, must now be managed deliberately." Guest post/ book review by @georgeweeks2014.bsky.social: www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2026/10/07/b...

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Book Review: Rethinking Parking - Greater Auckland

Today’s guest post is a book review by George Weeks, of

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Ryan CrawCour @ryan.crawcour.social · 19h

"he repeatedly refused to answer whether he would pick the phone up if he needed the party to be prime minister." & "an untenable land tax" & "the question didn't need an answer." the Chris flipflop has begun OPP have already ditched their "untenable land tax" they've said so #nzpol

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Jessica de Heij @jdeheij.bsky.social · 14h

Happening this month! 👏

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 15h

Just through helping a friend who got scammed trying to buy a rubbish bin. The site she got caught by, brabantia-nz[dot]com, is the top Google result for the term "Brabantia NZ". One of a large cluster of scam sites, most seem to use vvservicecare[dot]com as the order confirmation email address

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Jessica de Heij @jdeheij.bsky.social · 15h

And hopefully it also helps for shops and hospitality to stay open a bit later aswell. Like grabbing a coffee at 8pm? Yes, please! 😁

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Patrick Reynolds for a greater Auckland @patrickreynolds.bsky.social · 15h

Boom! 🚇 The City Rail Link is already helping make Auckland city centre into a 7-day city: Saturday 9pm ridership is now equivalent to pre CRL midday ridership 💥. Next month night frequencies are improving too, and getting a little later on Friday and Saturday nights, a good start. More please!

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Jessica de Heij @jdeheij.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Early morning bus sausage🚌🌭

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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Umbrella use is an indicator sign of a healthy city. People used to actively moving about their urban spaces know that simple tools mitigate weather concerns. Alternatively, this is why you see North Americans getting soaked in the rain. They know nothing beyond car to door, door to car transit.

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Daniel Vernon @yeehawtheboys.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Don’t be left standing in the rain after October 25th begging for a second chance, enrol to vote now! If you like this comic, and want to support, grabs pre-order of my new comic book: danielvernon.bigcartel.com

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Paul_BarlowNZ @paulbarlownz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

By my quick count, 31 false or misleading statements from Luxon. 1 from Hipkins that was corrected.

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Dan @danxduran.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I thought it would tighten... but it didn't

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Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Imagine how long his rehearsal was for this. #NzPol

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Paul_BarlowNZ @paulbarlownz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

At least 5 demonstrably false statements from Luxon in his opening statements

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Tim Murphy @tmurphynz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

And now the 1News poll: National - 29 +1 Labour - 28 stable Greens - 16 stable NZF - 10 +1 Act - 9 - 2 Opp - 7 +1 TPM - 1 stable If TPM win 4 seats, left parties can win If TPM just 1, Opp could still put Centre-left into power

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Jessica de Heij @jdeheij.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

My little natives have arrived! 😍

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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Mobility Lanes.

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Liam Boardman @liamjboardman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Like with Mackenzie District Council choosing to charge for public toilets, this is representative of an ongoing strategy by the coalition to force local government to do horrible things and then wash their hands of any responsibility or consequences

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Pàra @para14.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I see people surprised that Christchurch has the lowest tree cover of almost everywhere in NZ, but like, most of our cities are surrounded significant areas of bush: the Waitakeres, Remutakas, Town Belts etc Christchurch is in the middle of a bunch of fields

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David Slack @davidslack.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Rocked by a nightmare poll, National takes massive pivot and announces 100 new roads of national significance

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Philip Oldfield @sustainabletall.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

More ‘awning-maxxing’ in Switzerland - hardly the hottest place in the world, but where shade in buildings is taken seriously… A kindergarten and primary school in the city of Affoltern am Albis Designed by Kummer / Schiess Architecture

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Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 05/10/2026

Monday morning outside Rotterdam Centraal, thousands of cyclists stream toward the station in a carefully choreographed flow. What you’re seeing is the power of systems thinking—the bicycle and train both succeed because they work together seamlessly, where each mode extends the reach of the other.

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Connor Sharp @connorsharp.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Made this graph the other day to get an idea of how ungodly expensive the current crop of RoNS are based on Infrastructure Commission research. Compare the cost per lane km, with some 50th percentile benchmarks. Red is post 2023 roads in NZ, yellow pre 2022, and green OECD. #nzpol

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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Every street is a type of road, but not every road is a street. Our cities are full of roads masquerading as streets and the results of that design choice are clear. Streets become deadly barriers to the freedom of independent mobility for everyone outside of a car.

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Jessica de Heij @jdeheij.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

You mean I have to go over those parked cars? Sure. 😉

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Connor Sharp @connorsharp.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'm a big believer in giving more resources and funding to local government for transport. But as apart of this, they also need to become responsible for part of the cost of State Highway projects/works, so local reps stop arguing for massive overscoped projects www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/woodend-b...

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Mayor advocates for $800m motorway extension to go ahead toll-free

National has promised $800 million for the Canterbury project if re-elected.

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Jessica de Heij @jdeheij.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You would think at least the police the knew about the new passing lanes for bikes. 🙄

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Dutch Cycling Embassy @dutchcycling.nl · 04/10/2026

Strongly inspired by Dutch best practice, Beijing has built over 3,200 km of bike infrastructure, introduced the Dutch "fietsstraat" (cycling street), developed a Dutch-designed cycling highway in Tongzhou, and rolled out one million shared bike!

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There's a reason why Somerville hasn't had a traffic death in 4 years. The city isn't perfect, but they've made a concerted effort to design many streets around people and not cars. You can still drive, but you're going to have to do so slowly and while paying attention.

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Somerville is intentionally making roads harder to drive on. It’s getting results. - The Boston Globe

To make roads safer, the city says, sometimes you have to put some obstacles in drivers' way.

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Bryce @brycepearce.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Won’t someone think of the potholes? How can we fix the potholes if we focus on trains? 🤣

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Jessica de Heij @jdeheij.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Seriously, such a beautiful day. ❤️

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Connor Sharp @connorsharp.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Greens light rail plans should be much cheaper than in their policy document They've used the top end of costs identified in the Infrastructure Commissions work (95th percentile at $250m per km) Whereas 75% of surface light rail projects are $100m per km or under. #nzpol

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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

back to back transport bangers from the Greens the failure to engage the missing 15-20% has been an indictment on our politics for years - the Greens are making serious play to bring working people back inside the tent

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International Cargo Bike Festival @cargobikefest.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

𝚃𝚠𝚒𝚌𝚎 𝚊𝚜 𝚏𝚊𝚜𝚝. 𝚃𝚎𝚗 𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎𝚜 𝚌𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚙𝚎𝚛. What 7,300+ tracked deliveries in Brussels tell us about cargo bikes versus delivery vans: 👇

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Yorrike. @yorrike.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

And the upcoming diesel apocalypse is going to hit right around election time. It's going to be brutal, and if there's the mandate, a rapid switch to rail may be required as we won't be able to ship things around with diesel trucks at a price anyone is willing to pay.

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💀your friend corrigan.🥀 @hereliescorri.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I feel like there's a cohort of us who got on the internet before "social media" and made all sorts of healthy friendships through forums or livejournal or what have you and thus, while everyone's like SOCIAL MEDIA FUELS COMPARISON AND MISERY we're like, but that's just where my friends live.

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Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Restoring commuter rail will give smaller regions and towns the benefits of more travellers stopping at their town stations, creating more economic opportunities and connecting them to main centres and other towns." @julieannegenter.greens.org.nz #NzPol

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Greens' $4b rail plan: Overnight trains, Christchurch-Dunedin service

The passenger rail plan includes routes from Auckland to Wellington, Christchurch to Dunedin and extending the current Te Huia train to Tauranga.

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Connor Sharp @connorsharp.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"National leader Christopher Luxon did not want taxpayer funding going into a "white elephant" that was not commercially viable. "Of course we're very committed to our 17 roads of national significance and we make no apology for that." Hmmm which one is a white elephant? #nzpol

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🚄Rob✅✅🚆 @robdickinson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#NewZealand if we elect the Greens ✅✅

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