Jared Humm

Transport nerd who made it his career.

Also a bit of a writer.

Views definitely my own.

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Making progress. Can't wait to finally have the option to walk home when my train is canceled!

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@StuartBDonovan @lukechristensen I honestly don't understand why brt-lite isn't an auto interim go-to. Get improvements sooner and build social and political capital for further investment. Chch mrt another case in point.

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@StuartBDonovan @lukechristensen Wasn't that literally the plan before it was dunped in 2023? I struggle to see how lrt south of Newtown would be effective without spending a lot of money given how constrained the corridor is through Beramphore

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Says it doesn't need drivers or a dedicated corridor but it surely needs a segregated corridor to operate with no driver, so basically its just an expensive bus?

https://t.co/qu9NFhFDfk

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Te Ara Tupua continuing to progress

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@OliverLewis To be fair, christchurch city is more than 50 percent bigger than wellington... Oh...

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@waitbutwhy Haven't you just made it easier to have a vague "us" versus "them" fight rather than developing a tool to enrich a complex discourse for better outcomes? Because you've literally just made a box and labeled it "woke". It's still subject to the bias of your worldview.

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I dont think I have ever questioned my initial opinion of a politician as much as I have of Wayne Brown: "...we’ve been subsidising trucks in Auckland. I don’t like paying rates just to have some bugger in a truck."

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"It isn't the law you have to get to school in a BMW" - Wayne Brown, Mayor of Auckland.

Put that on every bus and train.

[nzherald @nzherald]

Wayne Brown floats $5 per trip Auckland highway congestion charge https://t.co/naBWFYEB6u

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@TalkingTranspo1 @jono_dw Is there a "double-decker bus effect" on patronage when they are introduced to cities?

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Didn't Luxon say National was for devolution and localisation? This sounds like the opposite to me.

[Katrina Bennett @KatrinaZBWgtn]

National says it'll scrap a plan to remove cars from Wellington’s Golden Mile if a contract for the work remains unsigned - & it comes into power.
This after the Herald revealed the contract for major works, due to begin mid-next year, has not been signed.
https://t.co/x4xHflaopy

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His modeling is probably "increase GST but don't say anything about it until after the election".

[Q+A @NZQandA]

National leader Christopher Luxon has refused to release the specific modelling behind his party's election tax policy, which has come under scrutiny from experts https://t.co/0oUoCQGFDn

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But he made a pledge card

[Q+A @NZQandA]

National’s @chrisluxonmp says they haven’t done any modelling on what reintroducing interest deductibility, lowering the brightline test, changing the tenancy laws, and removing compulsory medium density will mean to the price of housing

He says there will be “downward pressure”

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This is the most "I'm not racist, but..." drivel that has ever arrived in my mailbox.

It's also mostly incoherent ramblings. Yet, whilst it's easy to write off as a joke, the key themes im this waste of paper are being subtly pushed by mainstream politicians to win votes.

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@SaraTempleton_ Absolutely disgraceful. I'm sorry you have to put up with that.

[John Kerr @SciComGuy]

There are definitely parallels between #vaping and NZs BZP party-pill buzz in the 2000's. Interesting insights (and a surprise appearance from me) in this insider article.

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Damien Grant is like a canary in a coal mine for these types of thing. If he's making a song and dance that a wealth tax is a bad idea then it's safe to assume it's actually a good one.

[Stuff.co.nz Politics @NZStuffPolitics]

OPINION: This isn’t about paying for more health care or extra pay for teachers, but the pleasure of bringing down a peg those who have worked harder, who have achieved more. https://t.co/6ypn7pe4Zg

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Business owner shuts down business. Blames it on a thing that hasn't happened yet. Doesn't have any evidence to back up their claim other than reckons. But let's use this headline anyway.
https://t.co/ZBDWnWXCR7

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@FutureofWelly Providing "centralized parking options" and removing cars from the Golden Mile aren't the same thing. You can champion the former (if you want to) without shitting on the golden mile upgrade plans.

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@ArtyBees @bootstheory It's frankly embarrassing to put your business's otherwise good name to this erroneous open letter and provide such a limp defence for doing so. Disappointed former fan.