Basin Reserve flyover / August 2011
The New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) are planning to build a huge concrete flyover across the northern side of the Basin Reserve.
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Local insight toward a refined proposal
- Architectural Centre Inc
- So says Rod James, of the 1900 or so submissions received by NZTA on their recently closed public consultation on the preferred options for roading improvements near the Basin Reserve. his exact words are: We are grateful to Wellingtonian’s for taking the time to review our proposals… This will provide us with valuable additional knowledge and local insight to guide us towards a refined proposal.
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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It actually could be worse
- Architectural Centre Inc
- I just discovered this, and thought I’d share it with you all, as it is a topical image for today – the last day of submissions on NZTA’s proposals for transport improvements near the basin Reserve. If I had sighted it earlier I would have used it to threaten those of you who have not yet made submissions in a post entitled “Make your submission to NZTA or else…!”.
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Double Banger
- Eye of the Fish
- Consultation on the NZTA’s solutions for “roading improvements” around the Basin and through to the Airport (the tail end of State Highway 1, if you will), closes today. I’ve been taking a bit of a back seat on this, watching from the sidelines as the alternative proposal put forward by the Architectural Centre “Option X” [...]
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Vote X
- Architectural Centre Inc
- The Friday 26 August deadline for submissions to NZTA regarding the Wellington inner-city transport projects is getting closer. We believe this is an important issue for everyone to give feedback on. Option X will tunnel State Highway One under Memorial Park, providing a space which will respect our war dead, and allow reflection and commemoration.
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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It’s not just about transport. It’s about our city and the quality of our environment
- Wellington Scoop
- However you describe it, the 380-metre-long structure that the Transport Agency wants to build from Tory Street to the Mount Victoria Tunnel would change the Wellington cityscape forever, and not for the better. We’ve been wrong to describe it as a flyover. It’s much bigger than that. And the Transport Agency is wrong to describe it as a bridge. In reality it would be an elevated highway – which is an approach to road design from the early 20th Century that’s out of favour in most places.
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Polls apart – the verdict on Option X is all good
- Architectural Centre Inc
- According to Warren Buffet, a public opinion poll is no substitute for thought. Therefore, I think that the results of the Capital Times Reader’s Poll are pretty encouraging for the Architectural Centre’s Option X scheme for 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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Make a submission and support Option X
- Save the Basin Reserve!
- Submissions on the Basin Reserve flyover close this Friday 26 August, so make your voice heard today. You can use our submission guide (the link is in the menu to the right), and please support the best urban design outcome for Wellington - Option X. It's the high-quality transport solution that Wellington genuinely needs. read more
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A Punter's Guide to the Roads of National Significance
- Save the Basin Reserve!
- Guide to the RONS: a transport commentator is interviewed by a normal taxpayer who is confused RoNS? That’s the Roads of National Significance if you are Stephen Joyce, but I’ve also heard roads of national silliness from some less enthusiastic punters.
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Public meetings over the next week
- Save the Basin Reserve!
- Momentum is growing to see the Architecture Centre's Option X plan adopted instead of the NZ Transport Agency's short-sighted flyovers, and there are a number of public meetings in the coming week to discuss the alternatives: • Newtown Residents’ Association Monday 15 August 7.
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Basin flyover: another week of opposition
- Wellington Scoop
- It’s hard to find anyone who likes the NZ Transport Agency’s plans for a 380-metre-long flyover alongside the Basin Reserve. Starting at the Mt Victoria Tunnel, the structure would carry two lanes of vehicles above Ellice Street and Kent and Cambridge Terraces and discharge them at the Tory Street traffic lights. The flyover would be a dismal eyesore across the cityscape.
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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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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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Basin flyover: how the Transport Agency wants to make home-owners pay
- Wellington Scoop
- Not only is the Transport Agency planning to demolish around 50 homes, but they’re going to the Environment Court to force local residents to pay for sound-proofing on all other houses up to 100 meters from the new roads.
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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