Blogs / May 2011
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Sandhills Motorway cycleway provisions
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- The NZTA has released a video with a fly-through of the proposed Kapiti Expressway/Sandhills Motorway/ Mackays to Peka Peka route: Here are my observations of what I can see in the video with regards to the cycling provisions: The cyclepath seems to follow close to the motorway along the bottom of the Raumati Escarpment north of Mackay’s Crossing.
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Stalla
- Eye of the Fish
- Well, I was about to post something up on the tall tower proposal for the corner of Manners St, when this little number popped its head above the parapet, and it got me thinking. It is the latest proposal for Wellington – and no point debating it, because it has already been granted Resource Consent, without having to ask the public, despite being over 30% higher than the “permitted height”.
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Notional Significance: Gorge
- The Wellingtonista
- [See all Notional Significance posts] The stretch of Hutt Rd from Kaiwarawhara to Ngauranga is a long, dry slog through an artificial valley.
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Let the handmade revolution begin
- The Wellingtonista
- Well ok it’s already started, but Wellington is making a giant leap forward in celebrating all things you can make by hand this Queens birthday weekend at HANDMADE 2011.
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Last Day to Submit: Government Policy Statement On Land Transport Funding 2012/13 – 2021/22
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- From our friends at Save Kapiti: Submissions are due in by 5pm tomorrow the 27th of May 2011 on the.
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Social networks kick in over wellywood sign
- Bryan Pepperell - Back To The Future
- I was not surprised when Mayor Celia Wade-Brown sought the approval of the full council last night to put a new item on the agenda.
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Well, we would
- Eye of the Fish
- It seems almost inevitable that if this Wellywood sign goes ahead (all perfectly legal, the bloke from the Council tells me), then it is going to get some “special treatment” metered out in due course. And because we are such a creative lot in Wellington, and because the interwebs is here, let’s see how good [...]
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Wellywood Sign Song
- The Wellingtonista
- Comedian Robbie Ellis – who you may remember for his show-stopping performance of Manners Mall Emo Song (Buslane Through My Heart) at the 2009 TAWAs – has a new video. In reaction to the hugely unpopular plan by Wellington Airport to erect a “WELLYWOOD” sign, Robbie has put his feelings into song. Sing along!
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Tawa, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Has the airport company lost the plot?
- Bryan Pepperell - Back To The Future
- SAY NO TO WELLYWOOD SIGNOur brand as the creative centre of New Zealand is in the process of being downgraded. To even have a lengthy public debate is corrosive. Adopting this tacky imitation makes us look deeply shallow and builds a perception that will leave a sense of discomfort for many years to come. We are so much better than this. Bryan PepperellWellington City Councillor
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Out with wellywood sign
- Bryan Pepperell - Back To The Future
- WELLYWOOD SIGN MUST NOT GO UP SAYS BRYAN PEPPERELL- Wellington City Council's rep on the Airport company is Deputy Mayor Ian McKinnon and for his representation on behalf of the ratepayers he receives an extra $40,000. If Cr McKinnon cannot put up a good argument opposing such tasteless negative branding he really should resign from the airport company.
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A conversation with Bernard Beckett
- The Wellingtonista
- If you went to a high school in Welly during the last couple’o decades, you may have been taught by Bernard Beckett, and if you were a smart, articulate student, you might have got to actively participate in his classes (too bad if you weren’t).
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Oh god no
- The Wellingtonista
- Remember when Wellington Airport, after the howls of protest and outright mockery, backed off on its cringe-inducing Wellywood sign idea and promised to go away and think of something better to celebrate our film industry? Well, they’ve had a good, long think about it, and this morning’s paper announces that they’ve come up with a brilliant idea: A Wellywood sign.
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fabric-a-brac
- The Wellingtonista
- It’s the third year for fabric-a-brac and demand is still as strong as when they began as a quirky little event for die hard fans of fabric.
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Web devs welcome in Wellington at WDCNZ
- The Wellingtonista
- WDCNZ is tech talks for web developers happening on July 14.
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Riding like Superman
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- Here at Wellington Region Cycleways we love bike technology and there are many different ways to ride a bike or trike.
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Hauraki Rail Trail progress
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- On Auckland Trains is a post with great news about the Hauraki Rail Trail.
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Food Show, Glorious Food Show
- The Wellingtonista
- You don’t have to buy us breakfast to wax lyrical about the Food Show, but they did anyway.
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Welcome to May-lasia
- The Wellingtonista
- Dosai from Rasa.
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Lamason
- The Wellingtonista
- There are many many ways to make a decent cup of coffee.
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The duchess’ nice frock
- The Wellingtonista
- “Oh, look! It’s Kate Winslet’s wedding dress!” On the night of the royal wedding, while most of us were drinking gins and making snarky tweets about Princess Beatrice’s hat (or pointedly not), fashion designer Jane Yeh was hard at work furiously sketching and sewing a replica of Kate Middleton’s wedding dress, ready to go on display at 3pm the next day.
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Notional Significance: Reclamation
- The Wellingtonista
- [See all Notional Significance posts] Kaiwharawhara is a node, a knot, a tangle of paths and histories.
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Hobbit annoys Councillors
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- It seems some of the Wellington councillors are annoyed they’re getting a bit of unwanted feedback about their support for Steven Joyce’s (and lets not forget John Key’s) support of the Roads of National Significance.
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Could the Capital Connection run 3 times a day?
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- Auckland Trains has been discussing putting rail to Hamilton.
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The sad demise of Valparaíso’s ascensors
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- I’ve visited Valparaíso a couple of times, the last time being in 2008, and I made a day of riding all the ascensors, which are, and increasingly were, cable cars for getting up onto the surrounding hills.
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My other blog is back in business
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- Sorry that I’ve been a bit quiet lately.
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Notional Significance: Skyway
- The Wellingtonista
- [See all Notional Significance posts] The stretch of motorway that leaps out from the bluff was known in the Sixties as the “Kaiwarra-Thorndon Skyway”, incongruously combining the Jetsonian optimism of the term “skyway” with a mangled contraction of “Kaiwharawhara” that today would only be used by Pakeha blokes of a certain age.
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Thorndon, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Flash mob, flashed up
- The Wellingtonista
- The park in Courtenay Place sees a lot of action during the day – random interpretive dances, fucking annoying people with megaphones who are apparently trying to recruit people to their gym (but I’m sure they must have been hired by the competition because there’s no way anyone who works on Courtenay Place would want to give their money to such loud annoying dickheads), people playing the drums or a piano on a truck – the list goes on. Most of the time, we snap a quick photo and tweet about it. Today, however, we have a video of a Bollywood-style flashmob who were promoting a show we didn’t cover (oopsie!). But it’s better with the remixed soundtrack. Enjoy.
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Double-header imminent at Solander: Works on Paper
- The Wellingtonista
- Solander Gallery: Works on Paper is Wellington’s contemporary works on paper gallery.
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What’s your favourite song from Wellington?
- The Wellingtonista
- It’s NZ Music Month once again, so we wanna know what your favourite song by a Wellington artist is.
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