Basin Reserve flyover and Media
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Upgrading the Basin, but slowly
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- One thing seems certain from this week’s LGWM announcement – there won’t be a flyover alongside the Basin Reserve. Undergrounding – to separate the two streams of traffic and create lots of new green open space – is on offer in three of the four options. The fourth option (surely no one wants it) is to leave the unpopular roundabout as is.
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No decisions, but 4 more options
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- LGWM is continuing its indecisiveness for a sixth year, with four transport options to be announced next week. According to the NZ Herald, all the options include a new Mt Victoria Tunnel, and three of the options include grade separation at 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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Translating the Transport Agency
- Wellington Scoop
- We’ve all looked at some of the Transport Agency’s pronouncements over recent years and wondered what they really meant. Fear not, we’re here to save the day by translating their latest statement on the Basin Reserve flyover appeal – from High Bureaucratese into Plain English:
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Flyover appeal – progress and certainty, or confusion and more delays?
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Three years of chaos: Wellington’s public transport plan, and how to fix it
- Wellington Scoop
- Since the Transport Agency’s Basin Reserve flyover plan was cancelled, there’ve been claims that it has thrown Greater Wellington’s Public Transport Plan into chaos. In fact the plan has been in chaos much longer: at least three years. The 2014 plan has been approved but is in reality a train-wreck. Dramatic improvements in public transport usually need institutional change, which is now clearly essential in Wellington.
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More than five years’ opposition to a flyover at the Basin Reserve
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- Since Wellington.Scoop was established five and a half years ago, we have published more than 250 reports and articles about plans for a flyover alongside the Basin Reserve, and the substantial community concerns about these plans.
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Hideous and imposing – Martin Snedden describes impact of Basin flyover
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49 issues about the flyover
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Before and after the flyover
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Councillor Morrison and the Basin Reserve
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Not only KFC
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Opus and the flyover
- Wellington Scoop
- It’s evident that the Wellington consulting company Opus is being employed to give substantial support to the Transport Agency’s plan for a flyover alongside the Basin Reserve. This is shown by the fact that of the 21 technical reports commissioned by the Agency in favour of the flyover, ten of them were written by Opus.
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Divided over the flyover
- Wellington Scoop
- The city council has voted in favour of a flyover at the Basin Reserve, in spite of the fact that the city continues to be deeply divided over the issue. The vote, by 7 to 6, is a disappointment for Mayor Celia Wade-Brown, who has argued against the flyover since she successfully campaigned for the mayoralty against the pro-flyover mayor Kerry Prendergast. It was a narrow win, and for a while the new council had a one-vote majority against the flyover. But then Andy Foster changed sides.
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They didn’t like it but they voted yes
- Wellington Scoop
- I wish I’d been at yesterday’s Regional Council meeting. I would like to have heard more about why two regional councillors voted to support the Basin Reserve flyover after explaining why they didn’t like it. The DomPost reports from the meeting about the reluctant “yes” votes from Judith Aitken and Chris Laidlaw.
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Replacing green space with green space
- Wellington Scoop
- You can’t help agreeing with Helene Ritchie. After reading a Wellington City Council document showing plans to create green space in the middle of Kent and Cambridge Terraces, she pointed out correctly that there’s already green space in this area.
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Inevitable? Why one Basin flyover will be followed by a second Basin flyover
- Wellington Scoop
- The NZ Transport Agency should come clean on its flyover plans. Our practice believes that one flyover will pave the way for a second. The Agency’s proposed options for mitigation of the flyover, which it has developed in agreement with the Wellington City Council, include a “commitment to consolidate state highway traffic away from Vivian Street and into a single east-west corridor.”
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The two-faced flyover
- Wellington Scoop
- The flyover at the Basin Reserve will have two faces. The Basin Reserve face is too terrible to seen by cricketers, so it will be hidden by a new $12million building paid from roading funds. The other face won’t be hidden from anyone. Its ugliness will be seen by everyone else in the city, 24 hours a day, till the flyover is eventually demolished.
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Blown away by the flyover
- Wellington Scoop
- There’s a new addition to the list of bad things about the flyover that the Transport Agency wants to build alongside the Basin Reserve – motorbikes or light trucks could be blown over in strong winds while they’re on it, and there’ll be problems for pedestrians too.
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Another plan for avoiding the flyover
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At a Kapiti hui, advice about fighting a flyover at the Basin Reserve
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“I disagree with a flyover … increasing capacity at the Basin won’t help”
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Thursday’s flyover vote: the best interests of the coolest little capital
- Wellington Scoop
- I’ve been told that a couple of the Wellington city councillors who opposed the flyover in December may be thinking of switching sides. We won’t know till Thursday’s meeting. But it would be a negative result for the city if any of the eight are giving up.
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Concrete jungle … naked concrete flyover
- Wellington Scoop
- On the same day that an overseas expert condemned Auckland for building a “concrete jungle” in its CBD, the Wellington City Council was told that it couldn’t do anything to stop the Transport Agency building a “naked concrete” flyover across a historic part of the city.
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Flyover – condemned by Agency’s experts
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Conflict of interest: the Agency says more
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Don’t mention it’s 9m high and 380m long
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The Transport Agency’s threatening tactics
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Not one flyover, but two of them
- Wellington Scoop
- There’s an added reason for Wellington city councillors to reaffirm their opposition to the Basin Reserve flyover today. While the Transport Agency’s current plan is to build one flyover carrying two lanes of west-bound traffic, it has an even worse idea for the future: a second flyover to carry traffic in the opposite direction.
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Fighting the flyover: a second vote
- Wellington Scoop
- The Wellington City Council is this week having another of its “extraordinary” meetings. This one is crucial for the city’s urban design – councillors will be voting to confirm opposition to the flyover which the Transport Agency wants to build at the Basin Reserve.
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A grandstand to stop cricketers seeing cars; for the rest of us, a wall and flyover
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