“Local stores next to the protected bike-lane have seen a 49% increase in sales, compared to an average of 3% for Manhattan as a whole.”

(Among MANY other public benefits.)

Want To Make More Money? Build A Business On A Bike Lane.

#CityMakingMath via @fastcompany.com
#BikeLanesMeanBusiness

A reminder that NZ increase in Govt spending during 2020 - 2022 was middle of the pack by any sensible measure you choose. Treasury for *some reason* are still using a rushed together, inconsistently measured, and hopelessly out of date IMF report from 2021.

The Reserve Bank's "nowcast" of GDP is looking a bit sad.

Source: www.rbnz.govt.nz/research-and...

This is dangerous. Also hypocritical in the extreme as he pushes mandatory speech regulation in the name of free speech on statutorily independent universities at the same moment as he seeks to intimidate and silence those tasked by legislation with critic and conscience functions.

Steak and kidney pie was our Sunday lunch pie. Every Sunday my dad would tell us who'd donated a kidney for that week's pie. I knew kidneys could be donated because of organ donor cards. I worried I'd have to donate one until I was 11 and learned they were from cows.

This took maaanny hours, but a in depth look into how the speed rule is kind of insane for Auckland. For @greaterauckland.bsky.social

www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2025/03/03/f...

Seymour's response has amounted to a poor people don't deserve nice things so take the swill we give you and be grateful for it. Basically, a completely frank summation of his visceral class war on the poor.

How many more of these until someone in a position of power admits it's not working?

You invited your "spiritual mentor" Eddie Long to New Zealand and he brought along a teenage boy to sexually abuse while he was here. Then, after multiple abuse reports had emerged, you *invited him back* and had him address a group of boys under your control.