I’m glad I choose to cycle to work, here in Auckland. With the change in Mayor and a looney council we can expect traffic congestion to increase and rates to go up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’m willing to brave the traffic, and with the increasing congestion, I won’t have to worry so much about driver speed; it’ll be going slower than me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’m glad I choose to cycle to work, here in Auckland. With the change in Mayor and a looney council we can expect traffic congestion to increase and rates to go up. I’m willing to brave the traffic, and with the increasing congestion, I won’t have to worry so much about driver speed; it’ll be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"1","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":66,"url":"https:\/\/shadowfoot.com\/footprint\/2004\/09\/08\/broken-foot\/","url_meta":{"origin":112,"position":0},"title":"Broken foot","author":"Brian","date":"8 September 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"2:40 pm: I'm early for my appointment with my doctor. 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