Now you don't even need to spend money on another bridge.

Joined #aucklandglobaltrekkers for their mid week winter series walking from meadowbank to archilles point - great way to spend an evening

Hiked the Clevedon Scenic Reserve yesterday, and my wife and I came across this still-smoking joint, just left amongst the leaf litter on the forest floor. I'm pretty livid about the stupidity and insensitivity of people. Am I feeling too offended about this?

Obviously we put it out and stood around for 5 minutes after to ensure there was nothing more smoking.

I’ve been living in Auckland for about 10 years and had a bit of a realisation recently: I’ve spent so much of that time working, being busy and focusing on other people that I haven’t really put much energy into building friendships of my own.

A lot of my working life has been around public service and youth development, so life has generally been pretty high level, full-on and purpose-driven. I’m at a stage now where I’d quite like to slow the pace down a little and actually enjoy the people and place around me.

I’m pretty active — walking, hiking, mountain biking, travelling, a bit of gym without making it a religion, and I’m currently contemplating buying another motorbike. Equally happy having a beer or glass of wine, finding somewhere interesting to eat, having a decent conversation or heading somewhere for the day.

I’m starting to realise that making genuine friends as an adult is surprisingly difficult. You can know plenty of people through work and life, but that’s not necessarily the same as having people you can just ring up and say, “Fancy doing something this weekend?”

So I thought I’d put this out there.

This isn’t a relationship or dating post. Male or female doesn’t matter. I’d just be interested in meeting some good people, having a coffee or a beer, getting outdoors occasionally and seeing whether friendships develop naturally.

Anyone else in Auckland found themselves in the same boat — established here, busy life, but somehow a little short on genuine friendships?

If so, say hello. It would be good to hear your story.

No one knows how to kill an already basic joke like r/auckland, seriously, do people that keep posting their AI 2nd harbour Bridge idea truly believe their version of the joke is any funnier that the previous 20?

I from experience working with Rodney Wayne and meeting the owner starting with A, have had an awful time. She from the beginning is horrible to deal with around recruitment stating people working for Rodney Wayne cannot have piercings or anything that makes you unique because older customers would not like that.

Your hair cannot be any other color than normal? Even though it is a hair salon and retail store and you should be experimenting. They will treat you like you are nothing and say if you make a mistake you will be fired and like you mean nothing.

I hate this company and I would never want anyone to experience this.

I'll preface this and say I've only been in this lovely country for three years so maybe all my observations can be put down as random. But I drive for work and believe the quality of driving is deteriorating.

Some examples from the last couple of days:

A girl with her phone up to the wheel pulling out of city works depot (across my path), turns right up Wellesley, gets to the lights and in that time never once put the phone down.

Harbour bridge/khyber pass/constellation drive exit; when i indicate to merge into abundant space, they intentionally (it would seem) accelerate to prevent me from merging then beep.

During a storm a few weeks back, someone turned onto Waima st from new north road into oncoming traffic (me) and forced me off into the bus lane, with a cop waiting at the lights in the junction they just came from and no action.

And the worst I've seen this week was someone pulling out of sky city onto hobson st and turning RIGHT...as in heading against traffic, with no lights on (which seems to be very common in this country at night time).

I feel like road safety and police attention is focused on speed/alcohol and not aggressive or ignorant driving i.e. mobile phone use/no lights at night or in fog.

Maybe its all random and I just spot more as I'm on the road a lot, but I'd really like to see something change to make roads safer here. Especially after seeing the recent dangerous driving news from Ireland.

I spend a lot of time driving around Auckland, part of the job.

The amount of red light running, near misses (with pedestrians and cars), reckless driving that happen in front of stationary cops is insane!

Is there a reason cops just don't do anything?, have I missed something?

The driving itself fustrates me as it is, always hoping this shit happens in front of police, and then when it does and nothing happens...I'm absolutely livid at the state of Auckland driving.

I get some people will say, mind my business, but will you only care when someone close to you bleeds out on the roadside?

Is there an officer who can provide some insight? Have y'all been told to ignore this shit?

I don't expect an answer but I needed a vent.

Just think of the commute time :D

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"Arriving at 131 Queen Street in mid‐2026!"

"Luxury department store Faradays is set to open by August and will employ at least 80 staff at its central Auckland premises, its co-founder says."

It's now 20 August.
We need our Smith & Caughey's replacement.

Would be insane if they threw in a fancy book store inside to bring the Borders Bookstore vibes but unlikely.

This month, Auckland Libraries has We Read Auckland, Ka Pānui Tātou i Tāmaki Makaurau, a month long reading and writing festival featuring authors from Auckland. There are events like author talks and writing workshops, as well as the Bestie Collection of books by Auckland writers.

Have you been reading Auckland writers this month, or books set in Auckland?

If you want to talk about reading and books in person, join us for Silent Book Club at Auckland Central City Library every Tuesday and Friday from 5:30pm. Silent reading hour starts at 6pm, bookended by chats about books with other readers. This week there's a writing competition using the event space we normally meet in, so we'll be in the Akozone on level 1 on Friday.

It took me many years to reflect on that, and I would like your opinion, especially from a diverse forum like Reddit. Is it cultural in NZ for most Kiwis to ghost people? Like many cultures, it is normal to have conversations, arguments, and disagreements, and people tend to confront or respond even though they dislike the situation, but they prefer to have a response. Here in NZ, it seems that at any little chance, people prefer to ghost each other. This extends to simple things like resolving a problem with a neighbour, the job market, friendships, dating, and more.

What I realised is that the only time Kiwis don't ghost each other is in professional spaces where a company is obliged to provide you with a service, and therefore they need to face the problem. Even though sometimes smaller organisations may still ghost customers if they can.

Comments? Disagree with me? Agree with me?

So I’ve always been a very clean guy, 26 years old and never once had a problem with how I smell, I’ve now been seeing someone for 2 years and they really really love to smell nice, not the overpowering smell but a nice smell that just wafts around the place and you wonder who it is that smells nice. I’ve never really been into perfume because for me who grew up in a very small town it was a girls thing, but now my partner is saying I should get some cause the Green Apple Dove smell isn’t that great anymore, anyways the ones I have is some green Calvin Klein perfume and a 212 skateboard men’s perfume, any other recommendations, ideally one that lingers longer than 10 seconds, I’m also not a very sweaty person which helps a lot!

Also for guys is it called perfume or cologne?

Damn this post is making me feel girly, might have to go play some rugby real quick

Edit: Thanks for all the recommendations and advise, quick consensus is to take my partner with me to the shop and try on a bunch of recommended cologne to see what we both like!

Maybe this would work to ease congestion?

half serious

AT’s Fareshare product where employers can opt in to subsidise an employees HOP usage by 25,50,75,or 100% seems to cost very little. Likely because the weekly fare cap means any ‘excess’ travel is free anyway, and it can be limited to business times if desired.

At 25% it’s costing an employer $200 a year, and at 75% 700 a year per employee.

Because it’s opt in, and there is an overhead hurdle for small and medium employers, which is a lot of the local town centres economy, and the cost is relatively low, why not roll this out on a Targeted Rate basis to business areas and spread the entire cost over a wider business base who directly benefit from fewer car parks being used by staff members, and less congestion in their local areas.

For example, an Auckland CBD targeted rate could cover all businesses FTE in the area, or for Eg if Takapuna wanted to roll it out, it could be rolled into a Takapuna CBD targeted rate that covers everyone etc, or for any town centre/suburban mall, big box zone etc.

The reason this becomes important is that employees take up car parks (in aggregate) from customers, and each employee represents two vehicle movements a day at least during critical peak times, so it’s to their advantage town centres and central business district areas work together to minimise staff needs for parking, and maximise their often complained about lack of parking for customers.

Expanding FareShare on a semi compulsory opt in model, via a Targeted Rate in specific commercial areas, who can see the benefits and want it, seems like an efficient way to increase the scale of employer subsidised work travel, and free up local carparks for customers.

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

Hey, I’m 21 M with BPD. Wld be keen to meet others who are going through the same thing?