On the eve of a showdown Wellington council meeting over the capital motorway plans, government finance has been approved for a $1m study on the long term options for a high quality public transport corridor running from Wellington Station to Wellington Regional hospital in Newtown.
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.
Wellington Mayor Kerry Prendergast today called for private cars to be banned from the Golden Mile within 10 to 20 years, following planned developments such as opening Manners Mall to buses, overhauling roads near the Basin Reserve and building a second Mt Victoria Tunnel And the Greens say they support the proposal to make the Golden Mile car free with only public transport, but said Wellington should give priority to light rail and pedestrian space in the Golden Mile now, not in 10 to 20 years.
Tauranga-based artist Cordula Taiwo is set to open her exhibition, "Of a Wild God," at Thistle Hall, intentionally overlapping with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ Wellington concerts (Feb 5 & 6). This sophisticated body of work is a deeply personal creative response to Nick Cave’s music, his public correspondence (The Red Hand Files), and his published conversations (Faith, Hope and Carnage).
A feijoa. A Witch. A secret. And two children on a mission at midnight in search of magic. With a bloodthirsty hound on their heels the mysteries of the garden begin to unravel before their eyes.
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Reflections & Refractions presents an expansive collection of paintings by Pōneke artist Heather Collie. The interplay of colour and light are a central focus to the artworks that Collie present for this exhibition. Inspired by the Impressionists, Collie's paintings are grounded...
