Blogs / May 2007
June 2007 | April 2007-
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Manhattan roundup
- WellUrban
- My month of Manhattans didn't unearth quite as many highs and lows as my Martini explorations, partly because life's too short to try bad cocktails from every crummy bar in Courtenay Place, and partly because it's harder to get wrong.
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Competitive memorial
- WellUrban
- The Ministry for Culture and Heritage has done the right thing and called for a competition to design the Buckle St New Zealand Memorial Park that I mentioned last month. It's not a completely public competition like the original Waitangi Park design process, so don't rush out and send in an entry unless you've got a good architectural CV to your name.
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People having fun on T3
- T3 Track Blog
- Between all the hard work, Jeff and Hugh had the chance to ride some of the good work they had done. Harvey Blakely and a few mates came through T3 around lunchtime and after some encouragement he gave “old skinky” a crack, good on ya Harvey!
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Working Men
- T3 Track Blog
- While all the noise of the kango was going there was some good old benching and gravelling going on in between so that we can ride to each obstacle, makes sense really. Rob and Will showing how it's done.
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"Crash Test Dummy"
- T3 Track Blog
- We decided to give people a choice at the first rock out-crop of going high or low, as the high line has quite a drop and takes full commitment to clean. As Hugh demonstrates in these photos, a tumble from the low line is not life threatening but still a good challenge.
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Ratchet Canyon
- T3 Track Blog
- This tricky little number required the most amount of Kango time, as you can see from the before shots.
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Winning Waitangi
- WellUrban
- Waitangi Park has won a Supreme Award from the New Zealand Institute of Architects.
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Financial disaster ahead for Wellington's ratepayers- Bryan Pepperell speaks out
- Bryan Pepperell - Back To The Future
- Mayor Prendergast has recently stated .."The City has $5.8 billion worth of assets. Our debt is just 4 % of our total assets. Council has agreed to borrow up to $20 million a year to pay for new assets." This statement from Mayor Prendergast about the value of the city's assets in relationship to debt shows just why we are heading for a meltdown.
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Ukes at lunch
- The Wellingtonista
- Like the Wellingtonista, the library too is celebrating NZ Music month - they're hosting a quiz that always ends with the chance to win a well known brand of MP3 player. Nice. But even better, there's a performance by local Super Group The Wellington International Ukelele Orchestra this Thursday 12:30pm at the library.
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The Twister
- T3 Track Blog
- We finished the boardwalk part of the twister a couple of weeks ago on a beautiful autumn afternoon, which turned into evening by the time we were done. We knew this corner was going to be tight, but after 1 hour of kango action and a couple of test rides we came to the conclusion that this corner is very very tight, so after another hour on the kango we were just able to sneak around.
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FemCat Friday - Gypsy
- CataBlog
- Gypsy really is a special needs girl, who's going to require a very special sort of person to adopt her.
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Taxing times
- WellUrban
- I'm not entirely convinced that a regional petrol tax is the way to go: I think a targeted congestion charge for the CBD and major arterials might be a better way of fighting congestion while funding public transport.
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Welcome to all the new cats that came in last week
- CataBlog
- Hi all. I'd like to introduce you to the heap of new cats who came into our Kingston shelter last week.
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Wellington Music Month 6: a shameful secret.
- The Wellingtonista
- So alone among the Wellingtonista, I have a terrible secret: apart from an early album from the Black Seeds, I have no current Wellington Music in my collection. None. Not even Fat Freddy's Drop.
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Wellington has 5.8 Billon of Performing Assets -Yeah Right!
- Bryan Pepperell - Back To The Future
- Prendergast has recently stated .."The City has $5.8 billion worth of assets. Our debt is just 4 % of our total assets. Council has agreed to borrow up to $20 million a year to pay for new assets. " The statement from Mayor Prendergast about the value of the city's assets in relationship to debt shows just why we are heading for a meltdown.
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Vic Books sale
- The Wellingtonista
- On a stunning day like today, what could be a better way to use your lunch hour than taking the cable car up the hill to Victoria University and checking out the sale at Vic Books? With books starting at 50 cents, this is how I keep my bookshelves overloaded.
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Back on track: catching up
- WellUrban
- It's been a while since I've had the occasion to write a "back on track" post, but there's been a recent spate of good news for public transport users. Most of it has been signalled for a long time, and it's generally just catching up with maintenance that's been deferred for decades, but it's worth celebrating nonetheless.
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WBL: Results Round Four
- The Wellingtonista
- So tonight I messed up with giving people their lane assignments, which probably means that it's possible that ClickSuite might have thought that they'd won their round, and Clemenger might have thought that they'd lost theirs (oh who are we kidding, Clemenger would never think that, and that's why we love them), but as it turns out, it was Bowltron who were the winners on the night.
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Incredible progress has been made since our ...
- The Lazy Fern Track Blog
- Incredible progress has been made since our last entry on this blog. That's partly because the last entry was four months ago (shame), but mostly because a huge number of people have been digging away - an indication of how popular this track will be.
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Promenade
- WellUrban
- The promenade between the Chaffers Dock complex and Chaffers Marina is finally open, after being closed for construction for a very long time. It's still not possible to walk from the eastern end directly to the Overseas Passenger Terminal, as they're still asphalting that part, but you can now at least walk along the waterfront edge of the buildings then along the eastern side to Waitangi Park.
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Distant hills
- WellUrban
- Some ambiguity and a touch of hyperbole in my post about targeted infill led some commenters to think that I was suggesting all of Karori and Churton Park were "distant hills" with "two buses a day if you're lucky". That's not quite what I meant to say, but I stand by my assertion that the outskirts of these suburbs (and many others) have poor public transport service, and thus poor public transport use, meaning that infill in those places would just result in more people driving to work.
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FemCat Friday - Strawberry
- CataBlog
- Today we've got a lovely 10 yr old pedigree British Blue girl called Strawberry.
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WBL: Results round three
- The Wellingtonista
- Oooh! Things are really getting exciting now. Former league champions Xero took on Clemenger last night and didn't come out victorious.
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Te Rae Kai Hau Point - Keep It Natural!
- Bryan Pepperell - Back To The Future
- This is my seventh year in the battle to Save Te Rae Kai Hau Point. As seven is a special number I see this as a positive year to do things. It has been seven years where many people have played a part in opposing the shameful proposed Marine Education Centre ( Fish Zoo and Cafe) on this wonderful piece of natural heritage.
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Chews three
- WellUrban
- Retail space has been tight in Wellington for quite some time, especially along the Golden Mile. That's led to some retailers worrying about being "forced out of the CBD" by high rents, and while some are certainly having to move away from Lambton Quay and Willis St, that's not entirely a bad thing.
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Infill-tration
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- There seems to be a lot of misinformed commentary going on about the changes to infill rules, and some commentators and developers give the impression that the intention is to reduce the amount of infill overall. But the council's news was clear...
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ManCat Monday - Ringo
- CataBlog
- Ringo has belonged to an elderly person his whole life, and by all accounts was the apple of her eye. Sadly for both of them, she's had to go into care and was unable to take her beloved Ringo with...
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Waiting to dock
- WellUrban
- The glacial progress on the Chaffers Dock complex looks like it's finally getting somewhere, with the first signs of retail outlets preparing to open.
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FemCat Friday - Jade
- CataBlog
- Ok, we have lots of "normal" cats in the shelter, but right now I'm going to focus on the ones that either have special needs or have been with us for far too long. So, Jade. Well, she's got 3...
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Just like a Star Trek convention...
- The Wellingtonista
- ...except with better-looking chicks and binge drinking. Here's a challenge for you. In an unidentified pub, somewhere in town tonight, the local heats for the New Zealand Rock Paper Scissors (RPS) championship will take place.
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Manufacturing Consent in The Capital / Media Collusion in Wellington?
- Bryan Pepperell - Back To The Future
- This week in the Capital's politics the temperature rose steeply over the District Plan and infill housing. That was driven by the City's news maker the Dompost with a series of reports designed to give a favourable impression of a Council that has been papering over the cracks of a permissive District Plan.
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The Boardwalk to Nowhere
- T3 Track Blog
- This is the next piece to the T3 puzzle.
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David dickens - the new council reporter
- Bryan Pepperell - Back To The Future
- The new Dominion Post council reporter David Dickens is the former head of New Zealand's only defence think tank - the Centre for Strategic Studies.
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Ten of the best
- WellUrban
- As a follow-up to their ten worst buildings article, today the Dominion Post finally got around to publishing the Architectural Centre's list of the ten best buildings in Wellington, or at least those built in the last 60 years (the time that the centre has been active).
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