Blogs / February 2011
March 2011 | January 2011-
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Transmission Gully needs exemption from freshwater plan
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- NZTA have sought to change the Wellington region freshwater plan to allow Transmission Gully Motorway to proceed.
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Transmission Gully Motorway, Kenepuru, Porirua, Porirua City, Wellington, 5022, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Te Papa expresses its sympathy for the people of Christchurch
- Te Papa's blog
- Tīkoki ana te waka o Aoraki! Ko Rūaumoko e ngunguru nei! He parekura! He parekura! He parekura e! Ko te motu whānui tonu kua pani. Kei te hunga kua riro ki te pō, moe mai rā. Kei ngā makorea, he aha rā he kōrero mō koutou? Ko te Atua hei whakawhirinakitanga atu mō koutou hei [...]
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Two Pecha Kucha Nights
- The Wellingtonista
- If you’re like me, you’ve spent the last few days feeling rather glum and not in much of a going-out mood.
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Christchurch
- The Wellingtonista
- A rather violent earthquake hit Christchurch yesterday, and it’s devastated a city that quite frankly has had enough of feeling the earth move.
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European Masters closes this Sunday
- Te Papa's blog
- Well it’s coming to that sad time when exhibitions are about to close and a lot of people are always in the habit of putting things a off to the last minute so… I thought I would help you all out with a bit of a reminder in the hope you don’t have end up [...]
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Electrification to Waikanae – the importance of trains
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- Note: The opening of the Waikanae Railway Station was the scene for a major protest about the proposed Kapiti Expressway – those involved say that the Dominion Post has underestimated the number of protesters.
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Nothing bicycle related – Perth’s Kings Park Aerial Gondola
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- On the Gondola Project there is some talk of a proposed cable car in Perth linking a new waterfront redevelopment with Kings Park, one of Australia’s largest urban parks.
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Profile: The mysterious guy behind Weird in Wellington
- The Wellingtonista
- A few of us at the Wellingtonista are fans of the TAWA-nominated Weird in Wellington photo blog, a collection of oddities, curiousities and just real weird stuff out there in the city.
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Tawa, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Wind Explorers
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- This is really, really cool.
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Colossal squid on display gets check-up
- Te Papa's blog
- We can all do with a check-up every so often – just to ensure things are going ok and we’re not falling apart. Today our team took the lid off the colossal squid tank and started to drain out the preservation fluid so we can give the colossal squid a check-up. We last had the lid off the tank in March 2009.
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Wellingtonians welcome
- The Wellingtonista
- Photo: Matt Grace This is a cheeky post but it involves a heap of Wellingtonians so bear with me.
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Hutt Park / Hutt Square
- Eye of the Fish
- Slight change from Wellington – how about we look at the Hutt for a change? And yes, the Hutt is due for a change. Tenders are open for Lower Hutt’s new Square, which starts to make sense of the jumbled mess of parking that is currently outside the New Dowse. Design of “The Square” is of course by Athfield Architects, who did such a great job with the rebuild of the Dowse itself. It will be a “space for outdoor events, sculpture, exhibitions and leisure activities.” And it is proposed to look like this:
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Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Review: Long Cloud Youth Theatre
- The Wellingtonista
- For the last few weeks, a group of bright young actors have been hard at work at the Long Cloud Youth Theatre’s summer school workshop.
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Public Transport Voice submission and presentation to GW Economic Welfare Committee 3/2/2011
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- Public Transport Voice, one of the organisations active in Sustainable Wellington Region Transport, spoke in the public participation session of the Greater Wellington Regional Council Economic Wellbeing Committee on 3 February, about a range of issues, and tabled a paper for consideration by the committee.
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Cinephilia: Opening This Week
- The Wellingtonista
- In 1969 John Wayne won his only Academy Award for his portrayal of the irascible one-eyed US Marshal Rooster Cogburn in True Grit, hired by young Kim Darby to avenge the murder of her father.
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Review: Heat
- The Wellingtonista
- Baby, it’s cold outside.
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