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Feedback on buses from the campaign trail
- Sarah Free
- Talking to bus patrons over the last few weeks, I’ve had some interesting feedback. The bus system is generally working well, but there are still suggestions for adjustments and improvements. Island Bay and Johnsonville residents told me that the #1 route seems to get a lot of delays. Miramar residents told me the buses are […]
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Miramar, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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More Affordable Bus Fares for Wellington City?
- Sarah Free
- Fare Zone boundaries in Wellington City are quite small, so our bus users can easily pay two or three zones to travel a relatively short distance! As seen from this schematic, you would get a lot further for your one, two or three zones if you were in the Hutt Valley or Porirua. I would […]
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Porirua, Wellington Region, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Making a Difference, 12 Years On…
- Sarah Free
- I was asked recently what I rated as my four biggest achievements on Council, and this was my reply: (spoiler alert, there are five) Cycling and Walking Improvements City-Wide: Along with quite a few uphill routes, there’s the Leonie Gill pathway, Evans Bay and Cobham Drive, the upgraded Island Bay cycleway and Town Centre- and […]
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Cobham Drive, Kilbirnie, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Gordon Goneburger?
- Eye of the Fish
- It is deeply sad and rather ironic that the day that the submissions for the Gordon Wilson Housing Scholarship close wth NZIA, the Minister of...
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Gordon Wilson Flats, Maurice Terrace, Aro Valley, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6040, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Albemarle rises again
- Eye of the Fish
- It has been a long time coming, and at times I doubted that it would ever happen, but the scaffolding is down at last and...
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Albemarle Building, Ghuznee Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6040, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Khandallah Nine-Nine, Aro Nine-Nine, Brooklyn Nine-Nine
- Eye of the Fish
- I couldn’t decide what to call the post today, as events seem to cover all the options available to us. Things in the city seem...
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Begonia House, Serpentine Way, Wellington Central, Wellington, Wellington Region, 6012, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Reading
- Eye of the Fish
- What a great way to start off 2025, with the sale of Reading cinema to Prime Property. That’s the best news Wellington could have, outside...
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Courtenay Central (abandoned), Clock Park, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Sniffing out seabirds on Mana Island
- Te Papa's blog
- Te Papa vertebrates curator Colin Miskelly recently spent 3 days on Mana Island following a conservation dog searching for well-concealed petrels in the lush vegetation. He kindly agreed to share a ‘blog with a dog’ with us. Miro is a 4-year-old German short-haired pointer cross. He is one of the
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Mana Island, Porirua, Porirua City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Redevelop Karori
- Eye of the Fish
- Today, the Eye of the Fish goes West, to the deepest darkest reaches of known civilisation within the burgh of Welly, to visit the Kapital...
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Karori, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Mounting up on Victoria
- Eye of the Fish
- And so it starts. Fears of the Mt Victoria Residents Association, much bandied about as the end of the world, have now actually been put...
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Westbourne House, Westbourne Grove, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Bridge to Nowhere
- Eye of the Fish
- I’m probably going to lose a few friends over this, but I don’t think the City to Sea Bridge is worth trying to save. As...
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City to Sea Bridge, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Te Ngākau Civic Square
- Eye of the Fish
- This is what the Council were discussing last week Te Ngākau Update Council Briefing – September 2024 Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience – Key Approaches:...
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Te Ngākau Civic Square, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Review: Lizzie
- The Wellingtonista
- By Talia Carlisle Have you ever heard someone scream bloody murder? It’s worth cutting down the door to watch LIZZIE, the rocking hit musical by WITCH Music Theatre, where murder sounds hellishly good…. This punk rock’n’rollercoaster will keep you on the edge of your seat from start to finish. So tighten your corset and quieten […]
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Circa Theatre, Cable Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Meet the creatives behind HINE-TE-RĒHIA
- The Wellingtonista
- Presented by Tuatara Collective, HINE-TE-RĒHIA is a multilingual theatre experience coming to BATS Theatre in July. Devised, created and performed by an all-female BIPOC cast, this exciting show promises to leave you gasping in awe of their talent. I had the chance to interview Jason Te Mete (previous deviser/director), Tāwera Ormsby (co-Kaiwhakahaere of Tuatara Collective) […]
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BATS Theatre, 1, Kent Terrace, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Best of the week: 9-16 June 2016
- The Wellingtonista
- Best contribution to society The monthly Repair Cafe at Ngaio Union Church. How cool to have a big room full of incredibly competent humans dedicated to helping others for free (you can contribute koha and if you don’t have coins, ask them for their bank account number). I took a record player and was not […]
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Ngaio, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Matariki kōrero: What’s in an exhibition?
- Te Papa's blog
- As part of this year’s Matariki celebrations, Exhibition Experience Developer Dan Parke talks about creative storytelling in the Mānawatia a Matariki exhibition space on Rongomaraeroa, the marae here at Te Papa. This piece originally appeared in The Post on Wednesday 12 June.Read more
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Te Papa, 55, Cable Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Another PhD student flies the nest!
- Te Papa's blog
- Each year, several biology and ecology postgraduate students are co-supervised by Te Papa natural history researchers. One of these students, Weixuan Ning, has completed his PhD at Massey University in Plant Biology. His co-supervisors – Botany Curator Heidi Meudt and Associate Professor Jen Tate – talk about his time as a Massey and Te Papa student, and the mahi he has been involved in.Read more
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Te Papa, 55, Cable Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Porirua City’s Long Term Plan: submission guide!
- Talk Wellington
- LTPs are always pretty important but the 2024-24 one is extra so. Make sure your submission’s in by 5pm Friday 26th April – as little as 10 minutes with this post by Porirua resident (and TW convenor) Isabella This post has some submission tips (AKA the thinking behind the submission guide), then the actual content....
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Porirua, Wellington Region, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Last-ditch bid to save fantastic Modernist building
- Eye of the Fish
- A group fighting to keep the Gordon Wilson Flats from being demolished, despite the building having sat empty for years, has come up with a...
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Gordon Wilson Flats, Maurice Terrace, Aro Valley, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6040, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Khandallah’s new mega-development
- Eye of the Fish
- Wellington has long been nicknamed the “mini-Manhattan” for its shimmering high-rises sitting on the edge of the harbour. Recent changes to the District Plan will...
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Khandallah, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6035, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Is a Prime Minster Entitled to a Nice House?
- Eye of the Fish
- There’s been a lot about this house in the news recently – both the paper kind of news, and the TV kind of news. May as well get my news from proper news sources while they exist, seeing as it sounds like soon nothing is going to exist in the news world. What will we do when 3News and OneNews are ditched, and Stuff has gone bust again? Its hard enough to even buy a paper these days, as increasingly nowhere sells them. What do we do in the future – just make up our own news as we go? Seems to be working fine for some people! Anyway, THIS is the house in question:
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Premier House, 260, Tinakori Road, Paekākā, Thorndon, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Review: Goody Goody Glam Pop
- The Wellingtonista
- Reviewed by Talia Carlisle Get ready to shake it, to the fabulous rhymes and sick beat of Goody Goody Glam Pop at Circus Bar for one more night! Bethany Miller’s transformation into pop superstar Brooklyn Brooklyn of Brooklyn is Disney magic to behold as she shares her most pop-ular songs – Back to Back, Breathless, […]
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Brooklyn, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Summer happenings
- Talk Wellington
- Urbanism never sleeps… and despite NZ’s traditional shut-down and quiet period over the summer, it’s been a big time! Here’s some urbanism-relevant stuff you may have missed (and please add stuff we’ve missed – especially from Porirua, the Hutt valley and Kāpiti!) Just before Christmas: The new Transport Minister cancelled central funding for a slate...
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Porirua, Wellington Region, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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400+ urban researchers descend on Wellington: “Pacific Futures: Australasian Cities in Transition”
- Talk Wellington
- This week the hills of Kelburn will be alive with the sound of more than 400 urban nerds gathering for the State of Australasian Cities conference. Guest poster Becks Newnham has the lowdown 2023 is the first State of Australasian Cities conference (SOAC) to be hosted in Aotearoa, with researchers, policymakers, advocates and practitioners are...
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Kelburn, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
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Toomath’s Building
- Eye of the Fish
- Farewell to the Toomath’s Buildings then. Designed by architect William Crichton, completed by 1901. Survived years of neglect – did not survive a group of...
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Toomath’s Buildings, Ghuznee Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6040, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Leslie Adkin’s Excursion to Kāpiti Island
- Te Papa's blog
- Leslie Adkin (1888–1964) was a farmer by profession, based in Levin.
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Kapiti Island, Kāpiti Coast District, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Dense Hutt
- Eye of the Fish
- In all the fun and fuss over things like the Election, the country’s love affair / hatred of Winston (there is something very 1984 about Winston being the BiG Brother watching over us / controlling our every move), we (well, me) may have taken our eye off the ball. Well, not the ball, but the Hutt. It seems that the Hutt has fully adopted the MDRS changes proposed by the Government, to the extent that all the following things, which were proposed, have now been implemented, and are now operative. This includes some revisions to the Proposed District Plan, and there are many pages that look like this (only usually more words and less diagrams).
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Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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The Digby/Woolf Project is wrapping up…
- Te Papa's blog
- For almost two years, Te Papa has been digitising the Spencer Digby / Ronald D Woolf collection of photographic negatives. Now the project has reached the end of its funding, here's some highlights from the current team members. Read more
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Te Papa, 55, Cable Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Town Hall rebuild costs go sky high
- Eye of the Fish
- As far as cost blowouts go, this is a big one, and heads should roll. We here at the Fish have written about the old...
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Wellington Town Hall, 109, Wakefield Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Shells, not Shelly!
- Eye of the Fish
- Talk about a NewsFlash ! Wow – the Shelly Bay development, that no-one seemed to like or want, has just been cancelled. Not postponed, or...
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Shelly Bay, Shelly Bay Road, Maupuia, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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