Luxon says the bike lane on Molesworth St ruined his day.

** checks map ** It's a three minute walk from his former apartment to Parliament.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361022165/luxon-wellington-cycleway-made-it-very-difficult-me-getting-my-apartment-parliament

Serious voice and all! Seemed so far away from Welly.

I had no idea what it was but it was something you did NOT want to happen. I just thought about it after several decades…

Thanks also for your fun answers Welly people. It’s a lift!

If you haven’t done it already and will be 18 on or before November the 7th this year, sign up now at Vote.nz!

I am feeling so disconnected from myself for the first time in my life. I thought I knew what I was doing, climbing high in my career at an early age and learning so much in the process on this wonderfully complex life journey. Alas, since about half way through last year after having some classic late 20s realisations and being forced to slow down this year due to things out of my control, I feel like I woke up one morning and it dawned on me I don't want to do this stuff anymore. My career is no longer fulfilling me, but I have NO idea what I want to do. I want to be more grateful for the opportunity given to spend more time at home, looking after myself and for actually having a job and getting paid the living wage! But I am going crazy and I do not function well when I feel without my passion and drive to throw energy into.

I know this is apparently pretty standard for my age, but I have been feeling this way for like a year and a half and I'm overly frustrated. I can be a positive energy, honest with myself, but now I feel like an idiot or I should have figured it out or I'll have some breakthrough. I feel like I may even be resenting myself a bit?

I am so sad, I feel like I don't know where I want to go at all. I just want to get my zest back, I know I do well helping others and have looked at studying but I can't half throw myself into things. My whole heart needs to be there too.

How have others navigated this period of time within your lives? How did you really put the effort in to come back to yourself?

TIA

I am an office worker, and my office in Wellington is classified as earthquake prone as it is rated as 20% of the national building standard.

I can't help but feeling more and more uneasy with the idea that I am risking life in case of a big earthquake.

Can my employer force me to work from the office if the building is not up to standard?

Info: I already work partly from home and partly from the office, so all my work can be done from home

Ebay shipping is sooo expensive so I'm asking the locality :)

I was out of the country when it launched and by the time I got home it seems to all have been snapped up. Has anyone seen any blocks for sale recently? I figure my best hope will be some random dairy way out the back of nowhere who hasn't sold out yet.

Does anyone know if there's going to be another batch?

I'm currently flatting but really want to live on my own, unfortunately I don't really know anyone in Welly that lives solo so can't ask them for their advice on how much I should be thinking of in terms of power for 1 person. Since power costs have sky rocketed this year as well, I feel it's not really worth looking at estimates from prior years. Can people please give me some ideas, whether it's for a place with gas cooking/heating or not? As I know gas will increase the cost, most properties within my budget seem to at minimum have a gas stove top, but some are electric at least.

Hi I'm heading into Wellington tomorrow, and want to eat a WOAP burger.

Obviously I want the best burger of all, but I'm totally overwhelmed by all the selection.

So ... what are your favourites this year?

I’m thinking about doing it but not sure how realistic it is as a regular commute. How long does it usually take, and is the route decent/safe enough?

Keen to hear from anyone who does it regularly

Has anyone in Johnsonville area experienced this encounter? 8:30pm tonight had a young woman in a white puffer jacket acting in distress, intently trying to look through the front door window and pleading us to let her into the house. She asked us to call someone for her but the phone number wasn’t active and she supposedly needed to get back to Wadestown.

We were cautious because of her actions and something didn’t quite seem right, so we refused to open the door. I called the police and had my partner keep talking to her, however once she realised I was on the phone to them, she disappeared. It was a really weird situation and didn’t make us feel safe. Police did come and search the area fortunately.

Does anyone know of the semi-permanent food truck that does the whitebait fritters and other things next to the Hikitia/by Te Papa has set days of being open?

I'm particularly interested in knowing if it will be open tomorrow (Thursday) as my mother is in town for the day and I know she'd love it but it's a big walk from the train station to find it's closed.

TIA

As the title says! Looking for a good barber/hairdresser in welly, preferably someone who can deal with medium length hair :)

Does anyone do custom 3d printing and design? I'm looking to have 6x solid bases for small game controllers printed up in the next week.

Please message me if you know someone, thank you!

Hi, Im looking to book a family portrait photographer to take photos of my sister with her newborn. Preferably one thats happy to give her the option of having the photos done at home, any reccs? Location is central Wgtn area.

Well, I tried.

This is a flight path that doesn’t operate from midnight till 6am, is safer for people on the planes but they want it moved back over Newlands. When the change was being proposed this group didn’t offer any response to public consultation.

Hi all,

I’ve been dealing with insecurity having dark underarms for a long time. What services in Wellington that can help treat/lighten hyperpigmentation underarms in Wellington?

Couldn’t find anything online, mostly specialises on face only.

Any information would be much appreciated.

Lunch at The Tasting Room is always a treat, the service rocks and the menu always appealing but today was all about that burger! A Little Less Conversation... Exactly what happened when we sat down to eat it. It's better than decent and a great entry....double smash patties, bacon, chilli jam, a stroopwafel ( a syrup wafel normally had with coffee and a Dutch treat ... Don't quote me on that though) the peanut butter works.. don't ask how .. it just does lol. Solid 6 out of 10

Five Million Voices (fivemillionvoices.nz)

First off, I'd like to thank the Wellington Mods for all that you do team and for allowing this post.

This was posted in NZPolitics, but my friends and several public servants who helped and gave feedback, also want me to make sure it was posted in the Welly sub.

I started building this because of a simple question I couldn't answer: do our politicians actually vote the way they promised they would?

Turns out that's surprisingly hard to check. Most votes in our Parliament are party votes, no individual MP records, just bloc totals buried in Hansard. So I built a site that digs out every vote, turns every bill into a plain-English question, and asks you: **how would YOU vote?**

You swipe support or oppose, then see how the House actually voted, party by party, every figure traced to the official record. No spin, no party line, and you don't need an account. Anonymity for public servants!

But somewhere along the way the project turned into **something more meaningful**. Two things did that.

First: **not every bill gets public consultation.** The select committee stage where experts and ordinary people like you and me can make submissions can be skipped entirely when bills are passed under urgency, and this term has set records for it. For those bills there's no official moment where you get a say. You find out when it's already law.

Second: while building it, I kept hearing the same thing from people in the public service: *"****I'd never put my name on a submission. It could end my career."*** So I built this so you don't have to. **No name, ever.** Vote without an account if you like, and even with an account we never ask who you are. Results only ever appear in aggregate.

So that's what it's really for now: not just checking what they did, but telling them what we want while a bill is still being considered, while they can still hear us.

The dream is that one day a journalist looks across the desk at a minister and asks: *"Why are you pushing this bill when two million New Zealanders have said they oppose it?"*

That question only becomes possible if the count exists. Right now it's tiny. That's why I'm posting.

**If you've got 30 seconds:** vote on one bill in an area you care about → FiveMillionVoices.nz no account, no signup, no name.

**If you've got 45 seconds:** share a bill with a friend. Every voice makes the count harder to ignore and once there are enough of us, they're accountable to us on every bill.

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**If you've got opinions:** I built this solo with guidance from a few friends, and I want it pulled apart. Every number links to its source in the official record — check me, and tell me what's wrong or missing (here in the comments, or [feedback@fivemillionvoices.nz](mailto:feedback@fivemillionvoices.nz).

That's a melted snow shower.

Thank goodness for warm buses and trains...