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    • Motorway Patrol
      • 13 Dec 2012
      • Eye of the Fish
      • I’ve been really impressed by the pace of construction of the sparkly-new bypass-of-the-bypass since I’ve got back. Apparently this started in late October, and as I walked by today the road was just about ready for sealing. The new NZTA website doesn’t seem to offer any drawings or maps of this, so for those who haven’t had the chance to see it, I took these pictures a couple of weeks ago to give you an impression of the route.
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        • Geotagged Buckle Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington Region, 6011, Aotearoa New Zealand

    • Nothing Ever Happens : but it could be right now
      • 27 Mar 2011
      • Eye of the Fish
      • Just what is happening with the roads and tunnels in Wellington? Does ANYONE know?
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      • second mount victoria tunnel
      • bypass

      • This newsitem has 10 comments.

        • ‘A sensible motion from Councillor Helene Ritchie today: http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=33876 “Councillor Helene Ritchie has given notice that at the extraordinary meeting of the Wellington City Council on Wednesday she will move that the council should carry out public consultation before reaching a decision on whether or not to support the NZ Transport Agency’s roading plans for the city…… “An extraordinary meeting has been requisitioned by nine councillors to be held on 20 April at 5.30 p.m. • The purpose of that meeting is “to confirm (or otherwise) Wellington City Council’s position on Wellington RONS (Road of National Significance) transport improvements for State Highway One, south of Ngauranga” • However, the Council has yet to receive or review or approve the specific option(s), routes, designs which the NZTA intends to pursue. • Double tunnels on the Terrace and Mt Victoria, four laning to the airport or part of the way, and road widening through Thorndon will all impact heavily on homes and businesses in Wellington and particularly in the Eastern Suburbs – Hataitai, Kilbirnie, Miramar, also Thorndon and Mt Victoria, and the CBD • Some of the Town Belt and Basin Reserve will be alienated in all likelihood. • NZTA has written to the Council saying that it wishes to “proceed to public consultation on aspects of the plan that we are leading”. • But the Council needs to know the detail of the aspects of the plan that NZTA is leading and on which it intends consulting • The Council needs to then have the view of the Wellington City public prior to giving any approval to NZTA.” ’
        • ‘There’s been fast work on the implementation of the temporary Interim planting plan, with the greening of the grass berms all turfed up and ready, and a special “marching up and down” parade ground and associated bollards also installed – ready for ANZAC Day in a couple of weeks time. Mean time, Celia’s councillors are doing what they do best: rebelling against anything remotely green. “Roads, Roads, we must have Roads!!” they yell, as they back Celia into a corner and then stamp on her 10-speed: http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/4891064/Rebel-councillors-bypass-mayor-on-road-projects ” Pro-roading city councillors have banded together against mayor Celia Wade-Brown to force an extraordinary meeting to ensure the survival of $2.4 billion of Government roading projects. The New Zealand Transport Agency is asking the council for its definitive position on roading options that include a possible flyover to the north of the Basin Reserve, duplicate Terrace and Mt Victoria tunnels, and making Ruahine St four lanes. Failure to do so could result in the agency using the funding elsewhere in New Zealand. “ ’
        • ‘http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/4870144/2b-for-Wellingtons-roads-at-risk Top Priorities – as quoted in the article noted. Note: mention is of a “flyover or tunnel at the northern end of the Basin” – that’s the first official mention of a possible tunnel. Is it being seriously considered now? “The Government announced two years ago that it was planning to spend $2.4 billion to upgrade State Highway 1 from Wellington Airport to Levin. Key elements are: - A duplicate Mt Victoria tunnel, possibly at the end of Paterson St. This project was then estimated to cost $217 million. Ruahine St at the southern end of the tunnel would be turned into a four-lane expressway to the airport. - Improvements to speed traffic flows at the Basin Reserve. This could include a flyover or tunnel at the northern end of the Basin. The estimated cost of this project was $36m. - A second Terrace Tunnel estimated to cost $150m.” “NZTA sources agreed that it could lead to it reluctantly ditching the Wellington projects to use the funding elsewhere in the country. The agency believes the individual roading projects within the city – which could also include a duplicate Terrace tunnel – are all vital aspects of its four-laning of State Highway 1 between Levin and Wellington Airport. “To think you can pick and choose what parts to go ahead with simply because you don’t like roads … would mean we would be making worthless or questionable investments,” a source said. “It is not that these things won’t happen but they will be put on the backburner and of course that whole question of confidence of delivery becomes a question mark again.” ’

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    • Losing our heritage: a 104-year-old building, abandoned and dilapidated
      • 30 Oct 2010
      • Wellington Scoop
      • It had the financial support of Prime Minister Sir Joseph Ward and in its glory days its history included being used as a church hall and a music studio. The scruffy, dilapidated building at 30 Arthur Street used to be the Boys’ Institute – built in 1906 by the same architect who designed the Wellington and Christchurch railway stations.
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      • heritage buildings

      • This newsitem has 3 comments.

        • ‘I have always particularly loved the exterior of this building. As a child, I hoped that one day, I’d get to see what it was like inside. However, it is unsurprising that the building has now fallen into disrepair. The creation of Kamo Drive was an exercise in futility. The promised time savings for drivers have now been subsumed and as a Mt Cook resident who walks both to and from work in the CBD every day, the walk into town takes longer. This is also typical of the Wellington City Council under former mayor Kerry Prendergast: zero appreciation for the heritage of the city. Looking at the monstrosity currently being built on Willis Street where the original facades have been destroyed and beautiful pressed-tin canopies have been ripped out makes me feel really sad… ’
        • ‘Transit made a mint selling off buildings on the Transit route this year. Why don’t they use a small amount of this money to restore this little treasure – both the exterior and interior – including bringing back the historic staircase. Or does their Environment Court commitment to respect and restore ALL the heritage buildings on the bypass route somehow not extend to this one? As a small business owner I know there’s a great shortage of small ‘character’ premises available in Wellington. Many businesses, my own Awa Press included, would love to lease or buy this building if it were restored. And I agree with Alana Bowman, there need to be more small high-quality buildings (and not cheap, ugly ‘units’) along this strip, instead of weeds and concrete. Come on, Transit… ’
        • ‘An excellent account of a truly noteworthy building with such historic links. I’ve walked by the building since it was moved and dumped and wondered for so long about its history, so many thanks for doing the research. I do wonder under whose authority the wooden interior features were removed, and where they went. ’

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        • Geotagged 30 Arther Street, Wellington

    • Inner City Bypass Project scoops ninth award
      • 27 Nov 2008
      • Wellington Inner City Bypass information
      • Wellington's Inner City Bypass Project (ICB) has scooped its ninth award at last night's New Zealand Engineering Excellence Awards event held at Te Papa.
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        • Geotagged Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Cable Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington Region, 6011, New Zealand

    • Te Karo Park
      • 8 Aug 2008
      • Eye of the Fish
      • Following fast on the footsteps of the previous post on Courtenay Park, which some are labeling as ‘grim’, I’d like to put forward another contender for the title of ‘grim urban park’: yes, that of the SLOAP that is the ‘park’ of the Bypass.
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      • This newsitem has 10 comments.

        • ‘M-D, It has been a quarter century since I lived and worked in Upper Hutt. I’m guessing the situation yu describe is similar to the the south and east of the Christchurch CBD. All buildings and no open space. Fortunately Chch does balance this this with the banks of the Avon to the north and west of the CBD. Hopefully Wellington will acheive the same affect with the opening up of the waterfront. ’
        • ‘Kevyn – no one is suggesting that every bit of land be turned into pocket parks (and I think most of us would challenge the fact that such spaces necessarily have to be ‘green’), what is being criticised is the extremely poor effort that Transit have put into designing the remnants of the Karo Drive. I suspect that had plantings (native if there is such a thing in urban environments) been put there rather than the grim little leftover spaces with seats that we got, then we would probably all be much happier. But there is one thing that you need to understand as an ‘outsider’ – Wellington suffers from a lack of public parks in its commercial districts – the recent waterfront developments are addressing this beautifully, but there needs to be more spread out between these and the town-belt. In the absence of vast swathes of unbuilt flat land (ala Hagley Park), we have to make do with pocket parks such as Cobblestone, Courtenay Place, Grover, Midland). On the other hand, we have some great streets and pedestrian malls to make up for the lack of parks and plazas… ’
        • ‘Ha ! Maximus – you’re wrong! You said: “I have a feeling that these seats are not going to get much use. Has anyone ever been seen using it?” And yes, today – sunshine ! people on seats ! (well, one person on one seat). No sign of the picniccing tourists though – although it could happen! If the traffic queues are bad enough, you should always have a blanket in the boot so you can whip it out and have an impromtu picnic…. ’

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        • Geotagged 327 Willis Street, Wellington

    • Art at your feet
      • 30 Jul 2007
      • WellUrban
      • While there's a lot going on around the Buckle St section of the bypass, Karo Drive itself is going to take a long time to integrate into the texture of the city (sad, empty buildings don't help). Some citizens have taken things into their own hands and decided to give that most anonymous and downtrodden of icons, the pedestrian walkway pictogram, a bit of individuality.
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      • This newsitem has 10 comments.

        • ‘Yes! I had a similar problem once when I was staying in an exurban sprawling suburb in SoCal for 6 weeks. Most american suburbs are like that... My mood was seriously affected, I just felt down. And everytime I managed to get into the city and walk some grid shaped blocks on some cracked and dirty sidewalks it picked my mood up.I remember this place had one 6 lane road leading out of the suburb (here we'd've had a 2 lane road and it'd have sufficed) with the standard concrete sidewalk beside it, and another winding "dirt" path beside that which weaved in a perfectly symmetrical fashion for people to walk there dogs on... it was perfectly symmetrical! ugh!’
        • ‘If you want sterile, try Las Vegas. I once spent a couple of weeks there, based in a townhouse complex way off in the southern suburbs, and couldn't quite work out what was bothering me about the place (apart from the obvious tackiness, SUV infestation and absence of public transport). It wasn't until I got to London that I worked it out: Vegas suburbs are just too damn clean! Sure, the streets of London stank and were full of rubbish and graffiti, but it felt like a real, dynamic city rather than a collection of gated communities and golf courses. Of course, it helped that I'd moved to Spitalfields, which was Banksy central at the time, so the street art was of an amazingly high standard.’
        • ‘ Rudy Guliuni took the helm, "cleaned up" the place and now the city is as contrived and sterile as your typical shopping mall.At least you don't get mugged any more, and the subway is now a dream to ride.Seriously, there is nothing "sterile" about NYC, one of the most dynamic cities on earth IMO.’

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    • Toytown
      • 10 Jun 2007
      • WellUrban
      • I've been wondering when the houses relocated for the bypass would be re-inhabited, thus bringing some life back to a ravaged district. Surely it wouldn't be long before they were snapped up? But no: Karo Drive and Tonks Grove are going to look like toytown for quite some time to come.It turns out that under the Public Works Act, Transit has to look for the original owners or their descendants, and then offer the properties to them at market prices.
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      • bypass

      • This newsitem has 12 comments.

        • ‘That's a pity: I hate to see narrow legalities and the interests of former owners (who may or may not want them anyway) ahead of the life of the city. Transit must have known about that sort of thing years ago, any if they'd actually cared about what happened to the buildings, it could all have been sorted by now.’
        • ‘As I understand it, there are legal reasons why you can't lease out surplus PWA buildings while you're looking for their previous owners. Something to do with not affecting the interests of who they might go back to.’
        • ‘"they will well remember how all-but impossible it was to evict the tenants that were in them before needing to move the houses for the bypass."Rubbish. The vast majority of these houses were sitting empty for years (decades in some cases) before construction started. Transit owned most of them and let them fall apart through lack of maintenance, then pointed to their run down state as a reason for putting the road through. Transit deliberatly degraded what had been a thriving area around upper Cuba Street to reduce opposition to the bypass. A classic case of using money and power to trump democracy.- Sam Buchanan’

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    • In Memoriam
      • 24 Apr 2007
      • WellUrban
      • I can finally mention what I've known about unofficially for a while: it's been publicly announced that New Zealand Memorial Park will be built in front of the old Museum on Buckle St. It's not quite what I originally speculated about when demolition of the service station first started, since it will be where Buckle St is now rather than on the north side of it, and there's an additional nice touch in that the "Greening the Quays" project will be extended up Taranaki St to the park.
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      • This newsitem has 10 comments.

        • ‘i love xkcd.com’
        • ‘Umm. But moving the road over, and the park where it is now blows away any chance of trenching a tunnel through next to buckle street in that vacant space...:-\I guess it was too much to ever expect anyway... Is odd the whole having just build the new bike path with the trees etc "now we're moving the road".’
        • ‘Slightly off topic, but over at xkcd.com: Highway Engineer Pranks.’

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    • Councillors divided over bypass
      • 4 Apr 2007
      • Capital Times
      • he heavily criticised inner city bypass will influence the way Wellingtonians vote in the local body elections on October 13. Capital Times spoke to mayoral candidates Kerry Prendergast, Rob Goulden, Ray Ahipene-Mercer, and Bryan Pepperell about the bypass.
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    • U-turn
      • 1 Apr 2007
      • WellUrban
      • In a surprise decision, Wellington Mayor Kerry Prendergast today announced that the inner-city bypass will be scrapped. "We had faith in roads to solve all life's problems, but it hasn't turned out like that at all. It seems that while east-west commuters are saving a few minutes, north-south commuters have had to pay for it with increased delays, and overall, the project hasn't been worth all the money and hassle."The council and Transit NZ are now working to repair the damage.
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      • This newsitem has 15 comments.

        • ‘hey! that guy who's been putting up video on PA system is sending me a copy of his dvd when he's finished editing it.before you ask, it's about deflating myths around public transport etc.but... i need help setting up a viewing somewhere.ideas. and no. no april fool.’
        • ‘You could be forgiven for thinking that this press release was also sent on April 1st: "Council Wins Award for Sustainable Strategic Planning"!’
        • ‘In addition, Mayor Jenny Brash reported that she no longer supports Transmission Gully Motorway and would prefer a high quality light rail link from Waikanae to the Airport.’

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    • Bypassed
      • 25 Mar 2007
      • WellUrban
      • Well, it's done. The changeover to the southbound leg of the bypass happened without incident at just after 6 this morning, and while it's hard to tell for sure, there don't seem to be any major snarl-ups around town. Tomorrow will be a bigger test, once commuters hit the new layout in force, but we'll still have to wait for a while before we can see whether it achieves what it set out to do.
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      • This newsitem has 20 comments.

        • ‘Given the billions being thrown around at motorways in Auckland, and perhaps Transmission Gully, the Tunnellink project would have been a doddle price wise. Benefit/cost ratios aren't used anymore to ration major transport projects (and Tunnellink had a BCR of 2.6, great today, but too low back in the early 1990s for funding - costs AND traffic have grown since then).I reckon about $350 million and it would have an invisible footprint across most of Te Aro, as so much traffic would disappear into it and Cuba Street WOULD have remained intact. Building shifted for the construction and placed on top of the cut and cover tunnel. The exhaust fans were to have had filters to remove particulates, but no - far better to have this half arsed little one way system.The final Tunnellink proposal ultimately delayed and discarded was a full cut and cover tunnel from Vivian St to the Basin Reserve with on/off ramps at Victoria Street. Erentz, your images are of the previous proposal amended after public consultation (it went through 3 iterations).A proper bypass will be back on the agenda, no matter how much public transport supporters want to claim, it will never provide an efficient option for freight or the majority of trips bypassing the CBD. Wellington can choose to have a serious through route between the airport/hospital and the region, or pretend public transport will make much difference. PT will deliver for trips to and from downtown Wellington, but it wont for trips between parts of the region. It never has in any other new world city.Of course, congestion pricing could fund a proper bypass and make an enormous difference to congestion and the quality of public transport trips peak and off peak. That's for another day, but I don't believe it is more than 10-15 years away.’
        • ‘anonymous, I don't think what you're saying is ridiculous, I can't speak to the maths part, but just from experience being in other cities I've found a good contiguous grid "appears" to work very well at distributing traffic. I've always thought it would've been nice if Ghuznee St had always connected to Cambridge/Kent Tce, ditto if Abel Smith had too. If this had always been the case perhaps we might have ended a situation where Vivian carried southbound traffic and Abel Smith carried northbound traffic, or where Abel Smith carried bidirectional traffic with a contraflow. This would've been nice but would've been very destructive to do now. Good planning in advance though could've opened this up if as buildings came up for replacement the council bought back the portions of land necessary. (For a long period there was a huge patch of vacant land between Taranaki/Tory.)’
        • ‘The problem as I see it is the tendency for planners to minimise intersections and limit possible travel options. That, and one-way systems. I've been drawing diagrams for the last hour trying to prove that more intersections and no one-way streets is a good thing, (i.e. having 6 cross-town options instead of the current 2-3 and also more opportunities to turn back half way along, like, this will be a controversial statement, but Glover Park should be half replace by a continuation of Bute Street. Similarly, Holland and a number of others between Tory and Taranaki should be opened up. It seems counter-intuitive to make things better for pedestrians by making more and smaller roads but I think it is :) and I will try and prove this with pretty pictures or if I'm lucky, mathematics) but I should be writing an essay so I won't tonight :)’

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    • Bypass complete… shambles?
      • 21 Mar 2007
      • Capital Times
      • The final section of the Bypass opens on March 25, and commuters all over Wellington are expecting it to alleviate the traffic jams, delayed bus services and crosstown gridlock that have become a daily trial for motorists within the city.
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    • Bypassing Ghuznee
      • 19 Mar 2007
      • WellUrban
      • The moment of truth is nearly here: in less than a week's time, the bypass will be complete. Well, sort of. When the southbound route opens at 6am this Sunday, SH1 traffic will finally have been diverted out of the city streets and onto ... some other city streets.
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      • This newsitem has 12 comments.

        • ‘I had a closer look when walking home this evening after work.My feeling is that it is a motorcycle parking space - it's too narrow for a complete vehicle, unless they are going to shift the delineated carriageways north by another metre. That would then encroach on the parking opposite, so I doubt that...Still though, that footpath is far too narrow and a terrible design for a supposedly pedestrian friendly area. Imagine if there was enough space on the pavement for Scopa to spill out to the north, and properly utilise those expensive frameless glass folding walls they have. Glorious.’
        • ‘God, this roading design is easy. Can i take a minute to solve the rest of the bypass? Oh yes please!OK - Action 1 : put it underground from Tory to Taranaki - there's a clear path there at the moment, just beside it, and it will never be easier. Then the park from the Cenotaph can go straight over the top. Even better, continue teh bypass tunnell under Taranaki St, so the two roads don't even meet. So, traffic flows. Shocking concept.Action 2 : put it underneath the crossing at Willis. Really - its not working now, and its just going to get worse. Its already a poxy bottleneck - don't wait for it to get worse. If you put the bypass under both Taranaki AND Willis, traffic will flow so well ! Mainly because no one can get on or off the bypass at those points. Who needs to ?!? Let them get on at the Basin along with everyone else....Action 3 : reduce Taranaki St down from its current 6 or 7 lanes down to just two: One north, one south. Plant the rest of it in trees. Instant Boulevard, right down to the sea. People actually enjoying living in Wellington. Cars, apparently, flow faster when there are less corners, less lanes, less options. Give them one lane and give the rest back to Wellington. There : sorted. Transit, you owe me $20 for my time. Pity you spent $20 million for a result that doesn't work. And for Chrisakes, stop that jack-hammering at night! Its doing my head in !’
        • ‘ok ok, i hear you cry, what about Garret St? How wil they get in or out if we ban traffic from Cuba?The answer is already there. Garret St has a great building at the end with a big archway right through it, ordered by the roading-crazy council in the 60s, and so it would be really easy to connect up Garret right throught the middle, into Victoria St. Voila! All done!’

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    • It’s the bypass
      • 27 Feb 2007
      • Capital Times
      • STAGECOACH says Wellington’s new bypass is now causing the delays to Wellington’s bus services. The company came under fire in early February due to buses not arriving on time or at all. A shortage of drivers was initially blamed for the unreliable service.
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    • SH1 Inner City Bypass northbound route opens
      • 22 Dec 2006
      • Wellington Inner City Bypass information
      • After two years of construction, the northbound route of the new SH1 Wellington Inner City Bypass will open at 6am on Thursday 28 December 2006. "The road will be opened using a 'rolling' process ' the intersections will be opened one after the other working back from Willis Street, taking approximately 5-10 minutes," said Transit NZ Project Manager Jonnette Adams.
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    • Car-o drive
      • 18 Dec 2006
      • WellUrban
      • As I said I would, I took a walk along the bypass on Saturday. I was too late to see the protests, but some of the protestors were still there chalking slogans on the pavements, and there a certain tension remained in the air.There's a lot of things I don't like about the bypass, but the thing that struck me the most about it on the weekend is that it just doesn't look like Wellington.
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      • This newsitem has 15 comments.

        • ‘What a waste of time & money. Karo Drive is a disaster & Transit Cocked it up big time. Now there is more traffic & ever at Basin Reserve, Adelaide Road. Any more cock ups by Transit will make Wellington traffic worse just like Auckland's.’
        • ‘Tom - I admire your frank and easy criticism of the whole bypass deal. 'Thorndon South' says it ALL I reckon.What a bloody shame eh Wellington.Ah, it's all down to:'the right contacts'and money talks these days - whichever way you care to see this.’
        • ‘I live nearby in Cuba St, and since people have been back from holidays, there has been horrendous (compared to before) back up of traffic in upper Cuba St in rush hours and more cars idling during the day. I wonder if this will change when the southbound section is complete? Doubtful. Though I live in hope.It also seems to take forever to cross Car-o-drive as a pedestrian. The cynic in me insists that the lights are phased green for longer than they should be on Car-o, to make it look like the whole thing is a wonderful, flowing, success.Bah.Still dislike what its done to my community. It still looks like a fresh scar.’

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    • Walk the Bypass
      • 11 Dec 2006
      • Wellington Inner City Bypass information
      • Members of the public who have been wondering what has been happening inside the construction site for the past two years will have an opportunity to Walk the Bypass at public open days planned for the weekend of 16 and 17 December, being run by local Wellington Rotary Clubs.
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