James Dunne

Just some bones and things with flesh in and around them.

Tweets reflect my own views, but sometimes not even them.

[James Dunne @jamesdunnenz]

wake up honey, new 'no rates, only spend!'/multi-year saga/judicial review/scoop comments ragebait just dropped

[James Dunne @jamesdunnenz]

just one more business case bro, &c.

[Ben McNulty @ponekeben]

🧵: Officer recommendations for the Golden Mile have just been published 👇

[James Dunne @jamesdunnenz]

Tens of millions of dollars to fund an eternal, never-ending programme of work on the Wellington metro rail network

[James Dunne @jamesdunnenz]

claude do a search and tell me what's in the budget

[James Dunne @jamesdunnenz]

Rogernomics was actually really unpopular which is why Labour was voted out in a landslide in the 1987 election

[James Dunne @jamesdunnenz]

@ponekeben These people literally cannot grasp that it is their bull-headed defence of every absurd heritage outcome that has destroyed built heritage protection's social licence

[James Dunne @jamesdunnenz]

@AbsentHog @HendoWest like all law graduates 15+ years ago, what i yearned for was US BigLaw hours and expectations and a very New Zealand salary, apparently

[James Dunne @jamesdunnenz]

is not a man entitled to open a four seat wine bar in his carport selling cask wine (red/white) and pak’n’save crackers?

no, says literally anybody, for pretty much any reason they like

[Eric Crampton @EricCrampton]

"After an anonymous social media post, the trio received multiple objections to their application, pushing the process out for another year."

"Luckily, all three had other full-time jobs, which allowed them to survive the last year's financially."

[James Dunne @jamesdunnenz]

@nzsd @henrycooke we just need to build futureproofed infrastructure to withstand a 1 in [amend as required] year seismic event

[James Dunne @jamesdunnenz]

played out train nerd fantasy: kiwirail should resurrect an auckland-wellington sleeper service

the superior man's fantasy: kiwirail should resurrect a wellington-christchurch sleeper service

[Lewis Holden 🇺🇦 @LewisHoldenNZ]

LOL. So after spending millions on restoring the Christchurch-Picton line, KiwiRail is bypassing the route by booking coastal shipping on a Wellington-Christchurch run, because they didn't spot hire a ferry (as Tranz Rail did with the Purbeck). Madness

https://t.co/ukQcwuWmRx

[James Dunne @jamesdunnenz]

Level 4?

[James Dunne @jamesdunnenz]

@danielneljack @BarughTyrone Weird because WCC’s lawyers were so confident it had been impliedly repealed

[James Dunne @jamesdunnenz]

@LewSOS particularly grating because HRNZ, the sport’s regulator, has banned people with these sorts of convictions from racing. almost like they deliberately did this to intentionally exclude these sorts of people from their sport.

[James Dunne @jamesdunnenz]

@nzsd @EricCrampton @brendon_harre KiwiRail needs to manage the risk that all this TOD will lead to the thing it wants least of all: more passenger trains.

[James Dunne @jamesdunnenz]

wake up honey, new 'no rates, only spend!'/multi-year saga/judicial review/scoop comments ragebait just dropped

[Ben McNulty @ponekeben]

Staying in the Bonds Store (Wellington Museum) will require council finding anywhere from $40-70m to strengthen. Time to move out.

[James Dunne @jamesdunnenz]

lmao can you IMAGINE if Tory Whanau had tried to get the mayor’s office on the top floor of the council building

front page of the post for months at a minimum

[James Dunne @jamesdunnenz]

@henrycooke Thanks for the update Helene Ritchie

[James Dunne @jamesdunnenz]

me, stupid: now would be a good time to build some more bus lanes

you, genius: don't need bus lanes if there are no cars on the road

[James Dunne @jamesdunnenz]

@foxcar_joey Buy a cheap one that you like and never go on the internet to learn that it actually sucks

[James Dunne @jamesdunnenz]

I would simply apply the bus lane revenue to reducing parking fees in the CBD