Basin Reserve flyover and Wellington City Council
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Blast from the past – Morrison’s pledge not to vote for a Basin flyover
- WCC Watch
- The good thing about the internet is that comments are hard to hide or make disappear. Just like this clanger from the 2010 debate around the Basin Reserve flyover: Not […]
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Candidates on the Basin Reserve Flyover
- WCC Watch
- The Save the Basin campaign have asked Wellington’s candidates for local body election (even District Health Board candidates) where they stand on the controvesial issue. Very poor response rate overall, […]
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Eagle on the case
- WCC Watch
- Southern Ward councillor Paul Eagle has pounced on the news in today’s Dom Post that the fly over may mean that KFC on Kent Terrace will have to move. He […]
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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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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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Basin flyover an iconic structure opportunity
- WCC Watch
- Like it or not, the recent announcements by the Government mean the Basin Reserve flyover will be happening and what we now need to do is shift our thinking towards what it looks like.
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Flyover vote
- Eye of the Fish
- Later today the Council will vote on their support of the flyover. Related to this, an interesting tidbit came out yesterday and almost slipped me by: “Steps to move state highway traffic off Vivian St are among measures needed to ease the impact of a Basin Reserve flyover, Wellington City Council says.” Holy-moly. That’s new. Up until now some Councilors have been willing to admit privately that the way the Ngauranga to Airport “strategy” completely ignores Vivien Street is absurd. But the Council in an official capacity has, as far as I know, never said anything to this effect before.
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Response to WCC evaluation
- Architectural Centre Inc
- The WCC has issued a report which evaluates Alternatives to the NZTA’s proposal for a flyover at the Basin. Download a PDF to read our response to the WCC report. Arch-Centre_Response to WCC report
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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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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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Fran versus Celia: flyover tactics, closed minds, and a super bureaucracy
- Wellington Scoop
- 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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Mitigation
- Architectural Centre Inc
- In the case of the Basin Reserve flyover, the Wellington City Council has asked for further “mitigation” of the proposed Flyover (concrete bridge / Option A). For its part, NZTA has also promised some “mitigation” of the effects of the flyover, and says that they will focus on “mitigation” to ensure that the flyover is “integrated”. Trouble is, I’m not really sure that they are talking about the same thing.
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Unaffordable? Yeah, right
- Wellington Scoop
- The Transport Agency and the like-minded analysts at the city council are telling us that anything other than a flyover is unaffordable at the Basin Reserve. Which is a reminder that the Agency insisted for years it couldn’t afford to put State Highway 1 into a tunnel under the National War Memorial Park. Then came a political decision, instructing the agency to move the highway underground. What had been unaffordable became affordable, in a flash.
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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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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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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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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Wellington Says No To NZTA Option
- Auckland Trains
- The Government knows best when it comes to this country’s transport needs and what motorways we need.
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Option X is affordable
- Wellington Scoop
- I hope the Wellington City Council doesn’t give up on its efforts to get the roading improvements that are best for the city, in spite of the government’s short-sighted attitude towards tunnels. Even the Transport Agency accepts the benefits of Option X, as councillors discovered at Tuesday’s briefing.
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The dubious transport solution for Wellington: the cheapest option
- Wellington Scoop
- Wellington city councillors were told yesterday that the government will not pay for Option X. What would be best for the city is not acceptable for the politicians. They want the cheapest possible deal. Not that the government delivered this decision directly. The information emerged at a briefing meeting, almost as a throwaway line, in response to a question from a councillor who asked: “In terms of funding for Option X, what are the chances of the government fronting up with the extra money?”
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Basin Reserve flyover: councillors being advised to accept the unacceptable
- Wellington Scoop
- Wellington City Councillors have been told that a flyover alongside the Basin Reserve will have seriously significant negative consequences. Yet they’re being advised to shrug off these problems, and to support the flyover rather than Option X which doesn’t require an elevated road. Councillors should not agree to this bad advice.
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Basin flyover: the mayor opposes it, but what about the councillors?
- Wellington Scoop
- As Mayor Celia Wade-Brown continues her opposition to the Basin Reserve flyover, it’s sad that so few Wellington city councillors are showing similar concern. It’s equally lamentable that councillors aren’t protesting at the lack of democracy in the the planning process.
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Why are Labour's councillors doing Steven Joyce's dirty work?
- Save the Basin Reserve!
- The two Labour councillors on the Wellington City Council, Paul Eagle (Southern Ward) and Leonie Gill (Eastern Ward) enthusiastically got in behind to kowtow to the NZ Transport Agency's demands, and were firm backers of last week's extraordinary Council meeting. The purpose of the meeting was to do one thing, and one thing only - to make sure the Wellington City Council was lined up solidly behind Joyce's roading vision, whilst embarrassing a Mayor who had campaigned on better public transport. Joyce must have had a huge laugh watching these Labour patsies doing his dirty work.
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Wellington Motorway Decision Uproar
- Auckland Trains
- The issue of Wellington’s future motorway development is getting hotter. The new Mayor is not a big fan of a flyover near the Basin reserve but a group of her councillors are. Following reports some in the NZTA were getting unsettled about the Mayor’s failure to commit to their plans, the councillors have forced through a special meeting on Wednesday for the council to make a call.
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