Short note: As a property owner, noticed all the “iPropertyExpress” Periodic Inspection reports for any of my properties (where the property manager uses Inspection Express) and are more than a few weeks old have now all abruptly expired with no option to re-request a new link.
It seems the option to resend a new link only exists for new reports that are about a week old or less.
I was never informed of this policy change as a property owner.
Reached out to Inspection Express support directly and got back a non-committal answer (basically telling me to go back to my respective property managers).
Lesson is to download all reports as soon as you receive them.
ChatGPT Prompt: “Create an image of Chat GPT 5.2 lecturing a user.”
Result of a Prompt: “Create an image of Chat GPT 5.2 lecturing a user.”
Been a marked change in ChatGPT’s personality in the last few days. ChatGPT still works if you ask it to analyze anything or run speculative scenario models, but attempt any long form philosophical or systems-level enquiry, it will just go passive aggressive. Wouldn’t be surprised it was by design to reduce compute cycles / token usage at least for certain account types.
Car dependent, congested transport hellscape with key zones scattered all over the show. Worse of both worlds for Public Transport users and Drivers including business traffic.
No corridor protection for either Public Transit spines nor Motorway spines.
Any bus routes implemented in the area made to zig zag all over the place. Public transport typically taking 3-4 times longer than car in this area.
Diabolical urban planning that manages to be awful for both for Public Transport as well as cars
Large area served only by a handful of undersized traffic-light laden arterials (Ti Rakau / East Tamaki Road)
Lack of direct roading links into East Tamaki industrial area to the west and north means having to detour in the opposite direction before proceeding in the direction you want to go wasting time and causing congested clash points in traffic flow.
Ti Rakau Bridge is beyond capacity and is a real pinch point for traffic between the suburbs of Pakuranga and the Botany / East Tamaki area.
Eastern Busway (unlike the Northern busway) that is currently being built is full of at-grade intersections and I struggle to understand how, even with aggressive traffic signal prioritization is this going to successfully encourage modal shift.
Continued unrestrained sprawl out towards Ormiston / Flat bush ensures the pinch points East of the Tamaki river will remain under pressure for the foreseeable future. Residents having to cross existing already overloaded arterials to get out to the rest of Auckland.
All round a very poor show — Particularly for a city that is allegedly in a developed nation.
We keep sprawling out while failing to protect needed future transport corridors. This is unusual for a city in a developed nation.
Look at the area East of the Tamaki River in Auckland. Endless sprawl without either a grade separated transit (busway or rail) spine or a motorway spine.
East Auckland lack of proper Urban planning outcome (Map from Open Street Maps)
Instead we have endless traffic light infested arterials. Worse, traffic lights that do not seem to be optimised to keep platoons of vehicles flowing smoothly in either direction
Even Worse, many of those newer developments such as Flat Bush and Ormiston aren’t any where near a bus service, so what are residents / households who move into the area going to do? Buy a fleet of cars adding ever more cars into an already deeply constrained Auckland wide roading network. Once household travel patterns becomes establish it is then very hard to reverse. This basically guarantees we will be stuck in a cycle of car dependency and abject congestion as a city for the foreseeable future.
It is clear (unlike cities in other developed countries) we have not learned from our past mistakes and this is personally the bit I find hardest to reconcile.
Of course once the concrete is laid down, it is often very difficult and costly to fix it later on especially if we haven’t reserved any corridors. Look at the Eastern Busway. We ended up having to acquire and demolish houses at huge cost. — I for one am going to say up front this project isn’t going to be the saviour of East Auckland as we believe it is going to be. Too many “at-grade” intersections, unlike the Northern Busway.
As an ordinary rate-paying resident, I’m at a total loss at what I can do. I’ve submitted my views where I can to the Council, AT and other government agencies involved both during consultations and outside of it but feel like I’m being stonewalled. I’m surprised transport advocates whether they are pro-PT or Pro-car haven’t also spotted this and kicked up a fuss.
