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Alex Burgess

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Web developer @PBTechNZ, guard/train controller/Information Services Manager at Glenbrook Vintage Railway, has lots of Lego. @CaseyStillAlive is my duck. He/him

 Papakura, Auckland
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Joined June 2009
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Auckland Brick Show is on this weekend at Auckland netball centre. Take the EW line to Glen Innes (every 15m) and transfer to Route 747 (every 30m) for a 3 minute trip. 7 minute transfer so perfect amount of time to cross the street.
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Ahead of the City Rail Link opening to passengers on 13 September 2026, the public got an opportunity to look through each station on three separate weekends, starting with Maungawhau station. We attended a Sneak Peek event the night before. nzrailphotos.co.nz/photos/ci…
City Rail Link: First Looks and Sneak Peeks

City Rail Link: First Looks and Sneak Peeks

Our first looks at the new City Rail Link stations ahead of the opening on 13 September 2026

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City Rail Link opening date revealed as 13 September rnz.co.nz/news/political/900…
City Rail Link opening date officially revealed - but billboards got in first

City Rail Link opening date officially revealed - but billboards got in first

City Rail Link - a project that has been discussed in one way or another for 100 years - is finally opening.

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Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface
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tom@curdledSoyMar 5
you know legislation is preposterously bad when both act and the greens largely agree
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Replying to @henrycooke
Greens also quite concerned about the age ban
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The entire CRL being an unapologetic showcase of indigenous culture and art while Aussie stations have single murals is another Aotearoa W
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The only "metro" stations in the world with Te Reo Māori signage.
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Bealey River railway bridge, just before the Ōtira tunnel
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There seems to be money for sharply increasing defence spending, new highways, cancelling ferry contracts, landlord tax cuts etc, but not much for pay rises those who keep our essential public services going? It’s all about priorities….
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The East West link in Auckland, slated as the 'most expensive road' in NZ when the cost was $1.25-1.8 billion, is now slated to cost between $3.7-4.1 billion. Just another example of how CRL is an absolute bargain.
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I have never understood the hate some folk have for Greta Thunberg. She has always seemed to me to be a very conscientious young woman who quite simply wants to make the world a better place. There is something genuinely twisted in raging against that.
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Sergey Dashevsky won the Guinness World Record for the smallest functional bicycle in the world with a creation that measured just 8.4 cm (3.31 inches). Here's one of his performances. xitter.gq/ali_alsama7i/status/19…
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i-Rex ferries costs us much more than the $677 million cancellation fees etc. NZ's only rail enabled ferry Aratere is being retired on Monday, maintenance fees have gone up tens of millions, future proofing will now be relegated to lumping this cost on future generations #nzpol
A reminder those ferries were on track to being delivered this year and next, and the majority of the extra infrastructure costs were earthquake proofing - which is pretty significant in our country. Looking forward to NZ First and National shutting down functionality, future proofing, longevity & infrastructure resilience while "showing off" about "saving money" in future though. My calculation of 120% is based on the minimum published cost of $677 million to cancel I**-Rex-**, that's $677,000,000 - but it excludes the real costs (doubling maintenance costs, the 60% price reduction we had secured for next generation future proof ferries, the cost of downtime and retiring current ferries i.e rail enabled Aratere is being retired on Monday, future costs assuming the next purchase is not scaled to the same future proof specifications) i.e. I'd say the real cost is at least $1bn upwards and all they needed for the ENTIRE PROJECT TO FINISH WAS $1.2 billion Yes our last rail enabled ferry .

ALT A reminder those ferries were on track to being delivered this year and next, and the majority of the extra infrastructure costs were earthquake proofing - which is pretty significant in our country. Looking forward to NZ First and National shutting down functionality, future proofing, longevity & infrastructure resilience while "showing off" about "saving money" in future though. My calculation of 120% is based on the minimum published cost of $677 million to cancel I**-Rex-**, that's $677,000,000 - but it excludes the real costs (doubling maintenance costs, the 60% price reduction we had secured for next generation future proof ferries, the cost of downtime and retiring current ferries i.e rail enabled Aratere is being retired on Monday, future costs assuming the next purchase is not scaled to the same future proof specifications) i.e. I'd say the real cost is at least $1bn upwards and all they needed for the ENTIRE PROJECT TO FINISH WAS $1.2 billion Yes our last rail enabled ferry .

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Preventing people from enrolling to vote during advance voting is a draconian measure that could rob tens of thousands of Kiwis of their democratic right to vote, and there is no good reason for it. It’s anti-democratic.
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This road recently had its speed limit increased. Blood on your hands @cjsbishop and @SimeonBrownMP rnz.co.nz/news/national/5676…
Marae opens doors to stranded drivers after crash blocked SH1 at Manakau

Marae opens doors to stranded drivers after crash blocked SH1 at Manakau

NZ Transport Agency says State Highway 1 between Ōtaki and Levin has reopened after a serious crash but drivers can expect ongoing delays.

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i got a bad feeling about this one
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A collaboration between Steam Inc and GVR saw each run a train over the Raurimu Spiral today, with locomotive swaps also happening at Ohakune. We caught both trains in the star location, as well as the start of DA 1410's trip to Glenbrook. nzrailphotos.co.nz/photos/sp…

Spiral Spectaculars

Steam Inc's Spiral Spectacular in tandem with Glenbrook Vintage Railway's Raurimu Spiral Explorer, featuring DBR 1254, DC 4818, DA 1410 and DA 1431

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JUST IN: After Trump’s tariffs wiped more than $2.5 trillion off U.S. stock markets in less than a day, Liz Truss has awarded Donald Trump with the Golden Lettuce — the highest honor in reckless economic policy.
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Pay me my tariffs mf’ers
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