Tim Robinson @tim12rob.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Yeah, I have many questions too. First of which us, how did such an appallingly bad AI image even make it this far? Maybe Kiwi Drivers need to know what side to drive on?? Or maybe how to park a bus *in* a shelter? Or maybe how overtaking lanes are o lying wide enough for a bike? Or.. #NzHerald #AI 4133
Tim Robinson @tim12rob.bsky.social · 01/10/2026100% agree. Until that happens it is also worth finding a local car hire company. Day rates, yes, but still often reasonably competitive. Here's Cityhop (corporate rate, discounted i believe), vs our local (West AKL). We did occasional hire for years (UK) before buying a car. 010
Tim Robinson @tim12rob.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Train pulls away as the 18 arrives. Train gets to Glen Eden while I am still at New Lynn.... but, ultimately I am on the same connecting local bus, from the same platform as the 18 arrives at, as I would have been on if I caught the train. #CRL 100
Tim Robinson @tim12rob.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Almost at New Lynn before the train overtakes me. #CRL 100
Tim Robinson @tim12rob.bsky.social · 21/09/2026#CRL service test. Does the E-W line beat the bus when the train has a 15 minute headway gap?I'm headed to Waitematā station when I realise the train is a waaay off. Jump on the 18 at Lower Albert. I'm at Point Chev before the train gets out if the tunnel. 1/n 100
Tim Robinson @tim12rob.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Weird, cos the correct routes show up when you click on a (non-CRL) station 000
Tim Robinson @tim12rob.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Weirdly, not in their fixed map, just in the timetabled representation. 000
Tim Robinson @tim12rob.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Morning, Auckland. Feels good to have spring here. 010
Tim Robinson @tim12rob.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Ask them about split systems, retrofit to existing tanks, monobloc, refrigerant. I have just fitted a pump to an electric resistive tank and very pleased with it - programmable, power savings, ease of fitting. (I did buy a tank with suitable connections when replacing 10 years ago, thinking ahead). 010
Tim Robinson @tim12rob.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Top deck electric bus doing 80 on the motorway. Yum 010
Tim Robinson @tim12rob.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Unreal. People really have no clue how dumb it is to keep kicking the can down the road. 120
Tim Robinson @tim12rob.bsky.social · 10/08/2026I have often wondered! Not an expert, this is the kind of advice I have found. 000
Tim Robinson @tim12rob.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Just stop with the Paul Henry sponsored puffery right now please. 011
Tim Robinson @tim12rob.bsky.social · 12/06/2026PSA for local customers - warning, some stops are being closed or moved with no warning, and in some cases no information provided at closed stops. This also affects school bus routes. (Pic of closed stop, no information provided) 010
Tim Robinson @tim12rob.bsky.social · 12/06/2026I am sooo looking forward to this. Frequent route = an end to years of watching the 6:45pm local bus drive off just as the train pulls in, leaving an hour to the next one. 000
Tim Robinson @tim12rob.bsky.social · 22/05/2026A remarkably even-handed precis of the main parties approach to housing. New Zealand: a housing market with an economy tacked-on (h/t @bernardchickey.bsky.social 000
Tim Robinson @tim12rob.bsky.social · 15/05/2026What makes architects design houses that look like public toilets on the street side, while talking up light and openness on the private side? #MeanDesign 010
Tim Robinson @tim12rob.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Excellent stuff from Saul Griffith. open.substack.com/pub/energyan... 010
Tim Robinson @tim12rob.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Nephew is travelling the coast currently. Fortunately this is how he is rolling... 020
Tim Robinson @tim12rob.bsky.social · 26/03/2026Glenview Road by Elaman Property. Community housing. www.elaman.co.nz/projects/gle... 010
Tim Robinson @tim12rob.bsky.social · 26/03/2026Kubrick, by Ockham. (There's a theme here) www.ockham.co.nz/the-kubrick/ 110
Tim Robinson @tim12rob.bsky.social · 26/03/2026As Michael started you on Auckland examples, here are a few more. 1. Nix, by Ockham. bestawards.co.nz/spatial/resi... 110
Tim Robinson @tim12rob.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Another vote for Benno, for me it is the Boost that suits best. Same length as a regular bike, but the 24" wheels create the space for load lugging while keeping the handling very similar to a regular MTB (unlike the Terns). Absolute joy to ride. 130
Tim Robinson @tim12rob.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Copy finally arrived here in NZ, just beating the shipping chaos. Looking forward to reading! Thanks @ecominimalnick.bsky.social! 120
Tim Robinson @tim12rob.bsky.social · 06/03/2026A good week to #ElectrifyEverything. Petrol stations, gas terminals, fuel crises? Not the future anyone needs. 092
Tim Robinson @tim12rob.bsky.social · 25/02/2026There is a famous UK study where a male rider wore a long blonde female-styled wig with similar results.... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 131
Tim Robinson @tim12rob.bsky.social · 17/02/2026Bonus points if it features volcanoes and two oceans #Auckland 010
Tim Robinson @tim12rob.bsky.social · 03/02/2026Are you stalking us? First MTL-QBC, now this?! 😅 I did enjoy your Globe piece on Quebec City. We were slumming it in the HI Auberge (ice- inside-inside-the-windows hotel), followed by VIA to TOR (don't ask) and #1 on the 18th. What a great country you live in, hope your journey is not too frozen! 011
Tim Robinson @tim12rob.bsky.social · 28/01/2026Agree, particularly for mid-rise infill. maps.app.goo.gl/hhtmaCPvjB74... 020