Blogs / November 2012
December 2012 | October 2012-
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Andy Foster writes
- Eye of the Fish
- Councilor Andy Foster writes: “A recent article asked ‘why isn’t there more evidence of progress for cycling under a green mayor’ ? Questions were also asked about how this all fits with transport overall.
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Help with floating fern
- Te Papa's blog
- I’ve recently learnt that the introduced Azolla pinnata (ferny azolla) has been found in the Wellington region. I’m interested in its distribution and would be grateful for help in looking for more. Azolla plants are fairly easy to spot: look for a red plant covering still bodies of water. Azolla are ferns, believe it or [...]
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Premiere
- Eye of the Fish
- Yesterday, like the majority of Wellingtonians it seems, I went down to Courtenay Place to see a piece of long red carpet. Not that I really got to see much of the actual carpet of course – standing several rows back behind layers of sweaty little hobbit fans, I mainly had a good view of the back of people’s heads. Nothing wrong with that, of course, the back of some people’s heads are quite nice. Especially if they have hair, and aren’t all warty.
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Courtenay Place, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington Region, 6011, New Zealand
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Where the #$%& are the bike lanes already?
- Eye of the Fish
- We’ve had a bicycle-mad mayor for two years now and I don’t think I’ve seen one new bike lane, or any real indication that the council still even gives two hoots about cyclists and pedestrians. In fact our transport planning has just become, frankly, bizarre. For example our city council, regional council, and NZTA apparatchiks seem to think it’s a suitable use of millions of dollars of public money to tack on a dubious pedestrian-walkway-cum-cycleway to the Basin Reserve flyover, so that we can walk and cycle from the tunnel to the bypass. You know, because there’s such a huge amount of people walking and cycling around the city rather than to the city. It’s a route that is barely used for obvious reasons and will remain that way, even if they do actually fix the cycleway so that it is a proper cycleway and not just some bike-shaped-stencils painted onto a sidewalk*.
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Give pottery for Xmas gifts, gain a mother’s love
- The Wellingtonista
- Pottery glaze detail You know what’s a nice thing to do? Buying pottery to give to people as gifts.
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Please ride with bricks in your panniers
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- As someone who rides an electric bike it is amazing that I am sometimes exposed to a strange mixture of hostility and snobbery that cycling purists, who’ve never ever ridden an electric bike, will generously offer me.
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Wellington transport video
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- STL Transit has turned their attention to Welly, from the first bus from Upper Hutt to the last bus going back to Eastbourne. You can even see the Seatoun Ferry if you don’t blink.
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Eastbourne, Lower Hutt, Lower Hutt City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
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Double dipping at wellington city council
- Bryan Pepperell - Back To The Future
- It was an astonishing day at the council where a vote was taken to immediately stop paying Councillors director's fees to serve on Boards, Trusts and CCOs. Voting for were: Councillors Justin Lester, Iona Pannett, Bryan Pepper ell, Helene Ritchie. Voting against the amendment to stop paying Councillors who serve on Boards, trusts, and CCOs were: Mayor Celia Wade-Brown Councillors R ay Ahipene-Mercer, Councillor Ngaire Best, Stephanie Cook, Jo Coughlan, Andy Foster, Leonie Gill, Ian McKinnon, John Morrison.
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A walk for deaf botanists
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- On a train ride home I read over someone’s shoulder an article in the NZ Geographic magazine which detailed that a part of the Paekakariki Escarpment walk had been opened, so I got off my bum on another trip home and had a look.
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kina
- Eye of the Fish
- Nooooo, you’re doing it all wrong ! Michael Tuffery, esteemed sculptor, visual artist, creator of giant kina nesting on the side of the seabed by the Kumutoto stream – surely you’ve got it all wrong?!
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Frequent Airport Flyer
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- I first noticed the news of the changes to the Airport Flyer in an article that appeared in the DomPost.
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Wellington International Airport, Coutts Street, Rongotai, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6023, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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A new piece of cycleway in Levin
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- It’s been a little while since I’ve got up Levin way on my bicycle, but I was delighted to find a nice new bit of shared cycleway/footpath on Queen Street East, built to a high standard with a very rideable fine gravel surface.
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How to do things right, Vancouver style
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- I’m linking some recent posts by others to express an idea.
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Square
- Eye of the Fish
- Submissions are due to the WCC on Monday 5 November 2012, regarding proposals for the Design Brief for North Kumutoto (sites 8, 9, 10). Please DO make a submission – otherwise the NIMBYs may stall further work on these sites.
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