Blogs / December 2009
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Manners Mall Next Stop The Environment Court
- Bryan Pepperell - Back To The Future
- With the final passing of the revocation of pedestrian status of Manners Mall and creation of shared space in lower Cuba Street at the Council meeting on Friday, December 11, 2009, one battle has ended.
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Cuba Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Trannie Gully
- Eye of the Fish
- Wonders will never cease. According to the newspaper front headline today, Transmission Gully will go ahead, and will be announced today, along with the so-called “Improvements” around 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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Changes to Manners Mall and Cuba St confirmed
- Eye of the Fish
- On Thursday, the Council’s Strategy and Policy Committee voted — 9 vs 5— to approve the proposed changes to Manners Mall and Lower Cuba St.
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Cuba Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Water the next ratepayer rip-off?
- Bryan Pepperell - Back To The Future
- The history of privatisation of public assets has been a concern of the Wellington Residents Coalition since its inception over 12 years ago.
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WELLINGTON CITY COUNCIL DEBT END 2010 $287m
- Bryan Pepperell - Back To The Future
- By 2019 the City Council's Debt is forecast to reach $355 million. In a time of high unemployment and increasing costs such as ACC and energy to run the house and car the household disposable income is on a steep decline for many ratepayers.
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Manners mall opened to buses at $11.5m
- Bryan Pepperell - Back To The Future
- Wellington City Council makes the final decision today with a rubber stamp approving the revocation of Manners Mall after 30 years of being closed to vehicles. The cost is $11.5 million at a time when many ratepayers are struggling to pay their bills.
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Cobblestone Rex
- Eye of the Fish
- A story in the Capital Times has been intriguing us here at Eye of the Fish world headquarters, and I’m surprised no one else has picked it up. The Cap Times (with a nicely renovated website - good work guys!) interviews a “local businessman” who is unhappy with the Council spending over a million bucks on ripping apart the old Cobblestone Park outside the big red building of Arch and Design.
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A fair to remember
- The Sidestrip
- The Thorndon Fair, organised by Thorndon School, is being held on 6 December 2009. It is noted as being Wellington’s oldest, biggest, brightest and best street fair.
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Thorndon, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Wellington is facing rising sea levels
- Bryan Pepperell - Back To The Future
- At the Wellington City Council Strategy and Policy Committee briefing of December 1 we were shown a computer model of the areas of Wellington that would be flooded by sea level rise as a consequence of global warming. One of the areas that may be impacted is the site of the Indoor Sports Centre. There is no doubt there will be consequences that will be beyond our control even if Wellington were to reduce green house gas emissions.
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ASB Sports Centre, Kemp Street, Kilbirnie, Wellington, Wellington Region, 6022, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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