Blogs / July 2019
August 2019 | June 2019-
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The Big Kahuna: Reforming the Resource Management Act
- Talk Wellington
- It’s now another government’s turn to have a crack at reforming the RMA.
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My Answers to Lets Get Welly Moving
- Sarah Free
- Will we ever get Wellington moving? And what does that mean? The Kilbirnie Lyall Bay Residents association recently asked Eastern Ward councilors to give their views on the following questions (These are also published on their Facebook page).
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Don’t feed dogs chocolate – put it in beer instead
- The Wellingtonista
- Guest post by Krystle, thanks Krystle! Coffee, chocolate, and beer…these are a few of Wellingtonians’ favorite things – and thanks to a collab, you can now drink a fusion of all three.
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Just unbussable? Bus networks and Porirua
- Talk Wellington
- Train patronage is rising, but Porirua is driving more and more.
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Vision Zero: what’s that?
- Talk Wellington
- Government’s announced the new road safety strategy and it’s open for consultation.
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Save Wellington’s unique snail from extinction
- Te Papa's blog
- Wellington has its very own snail species, ‘Potamopyrgus oppidanus’, found nowhere else in the world – and it's smaller than a grain of rice. But their numbers are alarmingly decreasing due to bikers and weeds.Read more The post Save Wellington’s unique snail from extinction appeared first on Te Papa’s Blog.
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Review: High School Magical: The Reunion
- The Wellingtonista
- We all know Harry Potter, right? The lovely folks over at Playshop have turned its basic premise into an improv show called High School Magical, full of hi-jinks and comedy of the wizarding sort.
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Crabeater seals and their mysterious attraction to the Hutt River (the sequel)
- Te Papa's blog
- About three years ago, vertebrate curator Colin Miskelly made the 'rash' claim that the best bet for seeing a crabeater seal in New Zealand was to visit the mouth of the Hutt River in Wellington Harbour – and wait approximately 25 years.
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The status quo is a choice, too
- Talk Wellington
- As Wellington (and other Ao-NZ) towns start to realise the importance of living in better density, the forces of “No!” are gathering.
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Public Transport up Taranaki Street
- Eye of the Fish
- For now at least, we’re all out of cute colourful graphics.
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Does free public transport make a difference?
- Talk Wellington
- As politicians gear up for election promises, here’s one to listen for.
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Wellington City Cheated by Public Transport Fares
- Wellington Commuter
- * Wellington City Bus Users pay a much higher percentage of the cost of their bus service than the rest of the Greater Wellington Region* This means Wellington City bus users are being overcharged by millions every year to support bus services in other cities* Wellington City bus fares are too high and could be reduced by changing from 3 zones to 2 zones for the cityWellington City has High Public Transport Fares[Note: The information in this post is the basis for the DomPost story “Wellington City bus commuters ‘ripped off’ by new bus network and higher fares” also published today.]… Read more ...
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Rethinking Safety
- Talk Wellington
- As NZ grapples with our attitudes to our objectively terrible road death rate (not to mention e-scooters, kids’ cycling, high-vis, speed limits etc), we must ask: what’s real, and what’s in our heads – what myths have we come to believe? This article answers those questions, shedding an unflinching light on ourselves.
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Starting at the Station
- Eye of the Fish
- Having been looking in depth at the Airport route last week, and having already looked at the Basin area, its time now to return to Base One: the start of any Light Rail / Public Transport route at Wellington Railway Station.
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EVENT: Rebuilding the kainga – community and connection
- Talk Wellington
- Māori are disproportionately affected by New Zealand’s housing crisis.
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To the AirPort
- Eye of the Fish
- There has been interesting dialog over the past few days on the Eye of the Fish, regarding exactly how the routes out east might connect with Kilbirnie, Miramar and ultimately, the airport.
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Review – The Dunstan Creek Haunting
- The Wellingtonista
- “This is the true story of two travelling carnies who develop an obsession with the occult, exposing and explaining the paranormal.
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Heading South-East
- Eye of the Fish
- Given that everyone seems to agree that any new PT route needs to go down to Newtown to visit the Hospital (thereby removing any need for doctors, nurses and staff to have to drive to work) and then possibly the Zoo (as another main attraction) and then cross over to Kilbirnie for the large and growing population there, the Eye of the Fish decided to take a look at what may happen there.
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Design thinking for libraries
- Talk Wellington
- Wellingtonian Ralph Johns imagines Wellington City’s new library Since the Wellington City Library was suddenly closed a couple of months ago there has been a strong feeling that something is missing; more than just books, magazines and reissued vinyl.
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Public Transport network
- Eye of the Fish
- Following on from the diagram that Eye of the Fish published a short while ago, it has come out that this is, indeed, more or less exactly the route that LGWM have proposed as well.
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Review: The Aliens
- The Wellingtonista
- Dryw McArthur as Evan If I’m honest, I walked into The Aliens last night with a certain amount of cynicism.
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Scrap or Save?
- Eye of the Fish
- What? The Wellington Branch of NZIA is to stage a public meeting on the fate of Wellington Central Library, the Ian Athfield-designed building that has been closed for seismic reasons by Wellington City Council.
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Getting denser better: NIMBYism and developers (dispatch from San Diego)
- Talk Wellington
- Worldwide, unreasonable neighbour resistance (“Not In My Backyard”) is one of the greatest hurdles to the land-use intensification that modern cities need to be sustainable, accessible, and liveable.
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Better places to live: community and housing
- Talk Wellington
- Ao-NZ’s munted housing market is stimulating lots of innovation and entrepreneurism, and the responses to different initiatives are revealing our preferences and prejudices.
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Progress derailed
- Eye of the Fish
- A fairly stunning result for Wellington yesterday with the derailment at the throat of the main Railway Station.
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Sex Workers of Aotearoa: A Day in the Life of
- The Wellingtonista
- Sex workers and artists have gone hand in hand for hundreds if not thousands of years.
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Dear Wellington, we need to talk about driving
- Talk Wellington
- Surprise? Household emissions have risen, risen, and we can point the finger at how much we drive.
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Review: Ideation
- The Wellingtonista
- A team of ‘management consultants’ are recalled from their project overseas in order to work on an urgent proposal.
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