Wellington Scoop and Regional Council
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Words, or a lack of them
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- The resignation of chair Fran Wilde is a major change for the Wellington Regional Council. But maybe the council is in denial – there’s nothing about the announcement on its website. Not a word.
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Is Wellington for sale? Five council organisations into one private company
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- It is my opinion that Kevin Lavery and some of the city council leadership team have an agenda for privatising and commercialising city assets that they are determined to push in an opaque and autocratic way. Let’s take a look at WREDA for example – the Wellington Regional Economic Development Agency that was launched with great fanfare last year and has since disappeared off the radar. Its role is to replace five Council-Controlled Organisations: Grow, Positively, Destination, Venues, and Major Events.
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Questionable numbers in Regional Council plan to close Kaiwharawhara station
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- The reason for closure is that the overbridge which was built in 1934 has recently been deemed unsafe because too little has been spent on maintenance and it is now heavily corroded from the sea air. As a result the station has been temporarily closed. Tranz Metro and the Regional Council are now considering what to do ‘long term’ with the least cost scenario to repair the bridge requiring half a million dollars. However, the mention of this work apparently triggers the legislative need for a passenger ramps to meet wheelchair users which would raise the cost to $2.4 million. So the Regional Council Engineers want to close the station, citing – in their report to be put to the Council tomorrow – that only 14 commuters use the service in the AM peak.
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Kaiwharawhara, Westminster Street, Wadestown, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand/Aotearoa
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Fran versus Celia: flyover tactics, closed minds, and a super bureaucracy
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- The Transport Agency’s no-choice tactics to promote a Basin Reserve flyover have evidently appealed to Fran Wilde and her supporters on the regional council’s local-government-reform working party. The working party has come up with two options for local government reform – and they’re both for a super city. They’re no-choice options.
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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A second alternative to the flyover, and a change of heart by the Regional Council
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- The game is changing for the debate about a flyover at the Basin Reserve. Not only because of the unexpected decision by the Regional Council to reconsider its controversial support of the flyover. But also because of the news that another professionally-designed plan exists to solve traffic problems without the need for a 380-metre long bridge.
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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What they’re saying about the flyover (including Fran’s refusal to mention it)
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- The Transport Agency’s stubborn decision to build a concrete bridge on the northern side of the Basin Reserve has brought a mass of criticism from Wellingtonians. Among the few expressions of support, a statement from Regional Council chair Fran Wilde in which she praises the proposal without mentioning the flyover.
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Playing with words
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- The Regional Council doesn’t want us to focus on its steep increase in rates. Instead, it hopes to distract us with the fact that it has made a small reduction in the amount of the increase which it had been planning.
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Abolishing the regional council?
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- There’s no surprise that three of the Wellington City Council’s four options for reforming local government in the region involve abolishing the Greater Wellington Regional Council.
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No credibility: the investigation of an underground railway for Wellington
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- We’re getting contradictory messages about tunnels in Wellington. The Transport Agency says they’re too expensive for any of our roads. But consultants hired by the Regional Council are solemnly investigating the possibility of building tunnels under the city for an underground railway. The plan cannot be given any credibility.
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Congestion and inefficiencies – why the Regional Council wants to change its bus services
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- Now that all the money has been spent to make the CBD friendlier and faster for buses (and less attractive for pedestrians) the Regional Council has discovered that the result is: congestion. “At least 140 buses per hour in the morning and evening peak,” Councillor Glensor told us on Monday. “Resulting in significant jams and delays,” said Councillor Ponter five days earlier. The council has also acknowledged, belatedly, that there are huge inefficiencies along the Golden Mile, caused by duplication of routes. And it has finally accepted what the rest of us have been seeing for months – what it delicately describes as the bunching effect of buses, particularly at Willis and Manners Streets. (Manners Street – where we were told that all problems would be fixed when buses were given priority.)
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A more cost-effective plan than a super-city – why we should abolish the Regional Council
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- The Dominion Post was this week doing its best to talk up Wellington local body amalgamation again, with a thinly-disguised opinion piece from Colin James masquerading as news. The theory is that the “threat” of the Auckland super-city needs a counterweight in Wellington, and that the only solution is some kind of regional amalgamation. However the usual lack of enthusiasm from the locals is noted – with apparently no-one other than Fran Wilde and Colin James in favour of the idea.
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Shame on the Regional Council – it supports the flyover, but seems unhappy with its decision
- Wellington Scoop
- After a process that didn’t seem to satisfy anyone except Fran Wilde, the Regional Council will tell the NZ Transport Agency that it supports a 380-metre concrete bridge from the Mt Victoria Tunnel alongside the Basin Reserve to the Tory Street traffic lights.
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Regional Council gets a second chance to oppose the cheap roading option
- Wellington Scoop
- Tuesday is the day when the Greater Wellington Regional Council has a second chance to oppose the damage that would be caused by building a cheap flyover alongside the Basin Reserve.
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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The flyover gets debated again, this time by regional councillors
- Wellington Scoop
- Almost 20 years ago, when Fran Wilde was Mayor, the Wellington City Council allowed a supermarket to be built in a priceless viewshaft at the northern end of Cambridge Terrace. Almost 20 years later, the Wellington Regional Council (with Fran Wilde as chair) has supported a proposal which will cause an equal amount of damage at the opposite end of the wide boulevard.
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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