Thank you Toyota Finance for taking cityhop to the next level. I used a van last week to move a 🛋 sofa! Phone app so easy!
#carshare #onelesscar
sharing not owning.

and our members were so supportive and mostly understanding. We got smarter, got better tech, better and bigger cars, did some cool partnerships and more people discovered they could live with #one car less.

It's funny explaining how we began - the very basic technology - a hotel booking system and in-car tech talking to each other. 24 digits to key into old style phones if we needed to trouble shoot, thank you for giving us a go! We learned so much.

It was a slog convincing local & central Government that not everyone wants to own a car. So grateful to all the early adopters, the people who were living without a car and only occasionally needed one and loved the choice we offered.

I loved how in the interview he added his kids laugh at him.

"My children have taught me that they can prick my bubble any time, and they do. They’ve told me I’m a workaholic and that I struggle with work-life balance."

I still really believe there is a place for them! We need for connection, ways to understand each other, learn. When local papers were good say 20 years ago they did a terrific job of building community! hence the name community newspapers!

elsewhere: Other papers to close are: Cambridge Edition, Feilding Rangitīkei Herald, Franklin County News, Hutt News, Kapi Mana News, Nelson and Tasman Leader, Northern Outlook, South Taranaki Star, Southern Outlook.

Affected papers in Auckland are:
North Shore Times; Western Leader; Central Leader; Manukau/Papakura Courier; East & Bay Courier.

I had a Simpson 7.5 kg for 35 years, big, generous washing machine, never let us down, when we moved, it wouldn't fit in smaller house, i offered it to the removal man & he was pleased.

Oh no, i have been off bluesky for a while, will have to watch to rejoin! secret santa is an absolutely amazing thing. even wrote about it in newsroom a while back.

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