Quintin Howard

Thoughts on urban design, infrastructure, living in the Queenstown Lakes District & sport.

This is a personal account. Comments are my own.

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@realjeffsimmons so good to hear you talking with Rob this week. Would love to hear you hosting more chats with global 12s. We’re all over the world and have awesome stories about our fandom for the Seahawks.

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I hope you've enjoyed that idea, maybe had a little laugh. Get well soon. If you like the idea perhaps @TaikaWaititi or Brett Mckenzie can write up a couple of episodes.

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@JeremyRenner heard about your accident. Sending good vibes from NZ. Hope the medical team takes great care of you. In the mean time recommend rewatching both seasons Flight of the Conchords. AND how about this for show idea. Set in the same world as Conchords, 20 years later.

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@JeremyRenner the band struggles without a lead singer. Your new neighbour is Jennifer Aniston, who is a dolphin trainer at SeaWorld during the day and manages to convince your band to let her sing. Jennifer is enthusiastic but not necessarily good at singing.

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@Nicolas_Reid Great post.

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@Jarbury Josh do you have any more info? Is it less housing units? Or smaller households?

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I made the move to live in the Queenstown area a year ago. It has been awesome and challenging. This is a very special place in the mountains and it feels like home.

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@SeattleSonics Is NBAtop10playsofthweek one word?

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I love that the NZ Parliament grounds are open to the public, even better now that we have a place ground for the kids. Ardern opens playground on Parliament's front lawn, Mallard tries out the slide https://t.co/8R8dm0QA0e

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#transportplanningrulesofthumb all solutions are tools in the tool kit. Know what the tool is used for and use it in the right place.

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#transportplanningrulesofthumb lots of people moving along a few corridors easier to address than same number of people of lots of corridors.

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#transportplanningrulesofthumb sometimes propensity is either to achieve than density. But network should support the community not community to make certain transport paradigms work.

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#transportplanningrulesofthumb city centre solutions are not the same as suburban, small city and rural solutions.

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#transportplanningrulesofthumb Public Transport can be autonomous and electric.

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#transportplanningrulesofthumb self drive cars are likely to add 1. Inner city congestion 2. Lead to street fences and poor urban design 3. Move less people in dense urban spaces than traditional PT.

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#transportplanningrulesofthumb the type of engine doesn’t change congestion. EV same as Petrol. Environmental benefits are not the same as congestion benefits.

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#transportplanningrulesofthumb a vehicle travelling further adds more traffic to the network and therefore more congestion. If people live closer to their destination the network will be less congested and more robust.

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Thoughts about the Darth Vadar bus?

[Florida Man @_FloridaMan]

he comin’