Blogs / July 2010
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Ideas for Wellington #1 – Bikepaths across the Cake Tin concourse
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- This is the first in a series of ideas for Wellington, which will be mostly bicycle, and public transport related.
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Mayor Ogden and credit card use
- Hutt Chick
- Credit card spending by our elected officials has been in the news quite a bit recently.
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Indoor Stadium options
- Eye of the Fish
- In the interests of being a good citizen, and supporting the search for another possible site for the TSB Arena should it chose to relocate away from it’s foreshore-grabbing frontline position (surely the most pointless place for a ‘black box’ to be), I thought it may be useful to research some other sites around town that have been mooted.
- Submitted by tonytw1
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Men Behaving Badly
- Hutt Chick
- In Auckland there has been a completely dysfunctional relationship between the Auckland City council and Auckland Regional Council.
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Questions and answers for the fishheasd magazine interview
- Bryan Pepperell - Back To The Future
- An interview with Mayoral candidate Bryan Pepperell1.
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Don’t shelve community libraries
- Hutt Chick
- The seven community libraries have been under threat by Cr Roger Styles in the past, and now Cr Max Shierlaw is suggesting they go.
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Wellington's rates out of control
- Bryan Pepperell - Back To The Future
- Recently I asked for the compounding rate increase for residential property over the last five years from the city council´s CFO. My records from 1 July 2003 to 30 June to 2004 show my rates at $1275.69. They are now $2204.52. That’s close enough to 73 percent and I pay for my own rubbish. The figure I was given by the CFO was 45 percent.
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Where did I stick my Stadium?
- Eye of the Fish
- Following swiftly on from the news that Wellington Waterfront is even thinking of demolishing the existing stadium, comes the question: If not there, then where? Its clear that the current site can’t cope with much more expansion, given that it is quite a large building already, and I can’t see anyone being particularly happy at the big shed getting even bigger or shedier.
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Apartments Dead
- Eye of the Fish
- As the song went, “there’s a fine, fine line between pleasure and pain”. And so it is with the apartment market in Wellington, and my compulsion to write on this blog. One minute it seems like its not worth continuing with the blog as nothing much is happening on the Wellington construction scene, and the next minute – oh my god, they’re reporting about possibly tearing down the Event Centre, about apartment projects going phut, about Soso Apartments causing the death of the entire apartment scene in Wellington, the end of the Parade Cafe, the luxurious Pet Palace costing pussy an arm and a leg, and many more.
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Water conservation in the pipeline?
- Hutt Chick
- It is great to see that Capacity is fixing water leaks, but we could be doing so much more to conserve water and save residents the cost of a $142 million dam.
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