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Land Transport Rules

"What’s changing

Subject to Cabinet approval, these changes will come into effect later in the year:

  • allow children up to 12 years old to ride bikes on footpaths, and allow parents or caregivers to ride with them
  • require a minimum passing gap of 1.5 metres when drivers pass other road users, where practical
  • allow people to ride e-scooters in cycle lanes 
  • require drivers to give way to buses leaving bus stops in areas with speed limits of 60km/h or less

There was broad support for the proposed changes overall, with some adjustments suggested by submitters.

The proposal to clarify berm parking signage requirements received mixed feedback and low support, so the Minister decided not to progress with this change at this time.

The changes will make rules clearer and safer for people using bikes, buses, e-scooters and footpaths, and for drivers and other road users.

They respond to issues raised by road users, councils, and advocacy organisations and reflect how people currently use roads and footpaths."

https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/common-sense-transport-rule-changes-confirmed

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u/TheReverendCard — 4 days ago
▲ 58 r/newzealand

For the "If we'd just kept Marsden Point open" whingers.

From this report from February 2025.

Just look how relatively cheap and effective literally anything else is compared to Marsden Point refining.

Electrifying our transport fleet really is under-rated.

u/TheReverendCard — 26 days ago
▲ 21 r/Whangarei

Native Planting this Saturday, June 13th

Hey all:
There's a native planting event this Saturday to get a few hundred plants in the ground for a regenerating bush project.

More details here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/upcoming-date-159770917/

>We're planting native plants to regenerate degraded paddocks into a thriving ecosystem. Please join us to pop in some plants and share some kai together afterwards.
Bring a spade, gloves, sturdy shoes and a water bottle. Human friends and fam of all ages welcome, no dogs please. We have a playground available for little not-so-helpers.|Huge thanks to Maungatapere Mountain Trust for continuing to support this immense project with locally sourced plants and generously volunteered time.
13th June 2026 (Sat) 9am 729 State Highway 14 Maunu https://calendar.app.google/3ANPL9JVAsw9yKu3A

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u/TheReverendCard — 26 days ago
▲ 437 r/shitparkingofnz+1 crossposts

Parking on the footpath is getting out of hand!

I know there are more serious issues in the world, and that it's a busy road, but it is a bit annoying when people choose to obstruct the whole footpath.

u/Chump-Change5339 — 29 days ago
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Patreon Shop/Merch as Registry: Is anyone doing this?

Has anyone used the shop/merch function as essentially a registry? As in, they "purchase" something, but it's actually buying something for you?
We've been considering using this for certain things for us, primarily pest traps, wildlife monitors, etc.

We already are very atypical for Patreon. We have it for supporting us as both artists and our native forest regeneration project. We mostly focus on the latter at this stage.

Is anyone doing this?

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u/TheReverendCard — 29 days ago
▲ 65 r/aotearoa

NZ Solar and battery installs

I often troll through the EA's data on installs.
I had noticed battery installs were taking off, but until I downloaded it to chart it, I hadn't realised that battery installs had already reached over half of installs from nearly nothing just a few years ago.
Battery solar installs are clearly expanding and taking over. I wondered how many years it will take to have solar with battery cumulative installs to overtake all the previous battery-free installs.
The S curves are based on 30% of ICPs and a base number of new installs (~5%) still being without battery.
So, baseless assumptions other than "feels" but that gives us a point in 2031 where cumulative battery-solar installs overtaking solar-only.

u/TheReverendCard — 1 month ago
▲ 50 r/nzsolar

Battery tipping point

I often troll through the EA's data on installs.
I had noticed battery installs were taking off, but until I downloaded it to chart it, I hadn't realised that battery installs had already reached over half of installs from nearly nothing just a few years ago.
Second chart is more messy, but you kind've get the trend of battery with solar installs clearly expanding and taking over. I wonder how many years it will take to have solar with battery cumulative installs to overtake all the previous battery-free installs. 2? 3?
The last one has S curves based on 30% of ICPs and a base number of new installs still being without battery.
So, baseless assumptions other than "feels" but that gives us a point in 2031 where cumulative battery-solar installs overtaking solar-only.

u/TheReverendCard — 1 month ago
▲ 4 r/bats

Gift registrations for ecology?

So, we've been doing some bat tracking at our regeneration site in Whangārei Aotearoa New Zealand.

The current data process is clunky. We put out a couple of monitors for a couple of weeks, get their SD cards, manually process everything, upload, validate, etc.

We want to automate our pipeline that will give us daily activity data as well as do real-time bird identification and audio streaming.

The hardware isn't *expensive*, but it's expensive for us. ~400-600 kiwi bucks.

Does anyone know of any sites that have something like a gift register, but for wildlife or ecology projects?

u/TheReverendCard — 1 month ago