HeyJaredAdventures in Transitland
Musings about public transport and other cool stuff in Aotearoa/ New Zealand and around the globe.
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All I want for Christmas is... (opens the original)
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Starting from the top of the country, which in Te Ao Māori [Māori world view] is the Lower South Island, and heading north to JAFA-ville (aka Tāmaki Makaurau/ Auckland) and beyond, here are my top ten wishes for a festive season chock full of public transport essentials. Trains for the Lower South IslandA regular daily bi-directional passenger rail service from Aotearoa’s second largest city, Ōtautahi/ Christchurch to Ōtepoti/ Dunedin on onwards to Waihōpai/ Invercargill. The periodic Mainlander
An appreciation of Auckland (opens the original)
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Opening thoughtsTāmaki Makaurau/ Auckland is the city that non-Aucklanders love to hate (or is it hate to love?). And as us JAFAs1 (yes, I am sorry to inform you that I’m an out and proud JAFA) like to say, we are Aotearoa/ New Zealand’s only city of international scale. Like it or loathe it, the city produces a third of New Zealand’s gross domestic product and around 40 per cent of the nation’s tax take. It seems that you can’t live with Auckland and you can’t live without Auckland. The bad old
A farewell to Queensland (opens the original)
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Opening thoughts Australia is a big country. If it weren’t an island continent, it would be the world’s largest island. But it’s also one of the most sparsely populated places in the world with half of Australia’s 28 million people concentrated in Sydney and Melbourne, with 5 million in each city, and 4 million in South East Queensland, from where I recently returned. Nearly 90 per cent of the population lives within 50 kilometres of the coast, meaning that the vast interior is very, very empty.
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