Lost in the Auckland north with all the attention to the Len Brown win is the fact Wellington may have a very pro-public transport Greenie mayor within days.
The Greens’ Celia Wade-Brown is only 40 votes away from winning with 960 specials to be counted.
Celia Wade-Brown, like her northern namesake, Len Brown, campaigned on a transport policy -and being a Greenie, it was all about choices such as walking and cycling.
But central to her campaign was a promise of light rail for the capital.
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