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Blogs / February 2007

March 2007 | January 2007
    • All carnivalled out
      • Well, that was one hell of a party. There was even a bit of politics after all, after it was announced that Falun Dafa had been banned from the parade, and in the end they turned up anyway. There were even some rare and wondrous apparitions during the parade: actual buses!
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      • fares

    • Car-nival
      • 's going to be huge, of course. This weekend's Cuba St Carnival is set to be the biggest yet, with some unmissable acts on the Main Stage and even the Courtenay Place bars getting in on the act. The open-ended consent means that its future is secure, and you can get there by bus for only $1 (assuming that there are any drivers available). Some of us are getting very excited indeed about the weekend, and with luck even the weather might come to the party.
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      • cuba-street-carnival

        • Cuba Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)


    • No Go Wellington
      • When Infratil took over Stagecoach Wellington, I was cautiously optimistic: after all, who wouldn't prefer our buses to be owned by a local company rather than a multinational with an atrocious industrial relations reputation?
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      • transport

    • Those were the days...
      • From the newly relaunched NZ History website comes this wee gem from Today in History (actually, next week's Monday, but I couldn't wait to post it)... Two Wellington lawyers, W.V. Brewer and H. Ross, drew pistols over a legal difference in Wellington. Brewer fired into the air but 'received Mr. Ross' ball in the groin'. He died several days later. Ouch.
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      • local-history

    • Neues Bauen
      • Starting this Wednesday, the School of Architecture will be hosting a travelling exhibition of seminal modern architecture. Neues Bauen International 1927|2002 highlights some of the most influential works by architects such as Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe and Frank Lloyd Wright. There's more information and images available on the website of the Institute for Cultural Relations.
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      • art
      • events

    • Bus Angst #32
      • Two words: bloody buses. Actually, here's a few more. This particular Wellingtonista had to wait forty minutes last evening for even one bus to turn up on his route. Of course, when one did, it was packed to the gunnels, so it sailed by the stop, as did the next, and the next.
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      • fares

    • Shops that pass in the night 11
      • Cuba Street is continuing to evolve, and some of the shifting around is due to big changes at the upper end. We're yet to see much activity around Car-O Drive, but the first retail units in The Wellington complex are just coming on line.
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      • cuba-street

        • Cuba Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)


    • Didja feel that one?
      • Well, did you? More info once every other man and his dog stops hammering the GeoNet website. Update. Well, there ya go: a 4.8 shake, focal point 50km deep, 30km west of {Porirua}, out in Cook Strait. A decent rattle. (And if you did feel it, report your experience here. Do your bit for science.)
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