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      <title>Ten Years in Pōneke Part Four – Throwing Down the Escooter Gauntlet</title>
      <link>https://wellingtonista.com/2025/04/23/ten-years-in-poneke-part-four-throwing-down-the-escooter-gauntlet/</link>
      <description>Or, how far can you travel on a Flamingo before it dies on you? A Pōneke Easter Experiment. Do not try this at home. It’s not wholly dangerous, but it is a little foolhardy. Mostly it’s just time consuming and will make your legs ache. I’ve been scooting ever since I was a kid. I […]</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://wellingtonista.com/2025/04/23/ten-years-in-poneke-part-four-throwing-down-the-escooter-gauntlet/</guid>
      <dc:creator>The Wellingtonista</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2025-04-22T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>e-scooters: don’t ban them by accident</title>
      <link>https://talkwellington.org.nz/2023/e-scooters-dont-ban-them-by-accident/</link>
      <description>A temporary exemption in official classifications means we get to have e-scooters in NZ. But that exemption’s expiring and there’s real “baby goes out with bathwater” risk, so pop in your 2c BY 5PM MONDAY 7th! If you want to do this real quick, scroll to …. you guessed, it, our friend the typing cat!...</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 06 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://talkwellington.org.nz/2023/e-scooters-dont-ban-them-by-accident/</guid>
      <dc:creator>Talk Wellington</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2023-08-06T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>E-scooters: for or against</title>
      <link>http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=128186</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=128186</guid>
      <dc:creator>Wellington Scoop</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2020-05-19T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Pros and Cons of the e-scooter trial</title>
      <link>https://www.condie4council.nz/post/pros-and-cons-of-the-e-scooter-trial</link>
      <description>This week we have to decide whether to continue the public share e-scooter trial. I have a number of questions I would like answered...</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2020 09:13:23 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.condie4council.nz/post/pros-and-cons-of-the-e-scooter-trial</guid>
      <dc:creator>Councillor Jenny Condie</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2020-05-17T09:13:23Z</dc:date>
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      <title>e-Scooters: what do you think, Wellington? Tell  council</title>
      <link>https://talkwellington.org.nz/2020/e-scooters-what-do-you-think-wellington-tell-council/</link>
      <description>Wellington has been trialling e-scooters for a bit over six months now.</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 23 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://talkwellington.org.nz/2020/e-scooters-what-do-you-think-wellington-tell-council/</guid>
      <dc:creator>Talk Wellington</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2020-01-23T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>E-scooters: a call to action</title>
      <link>http://orientalbay.org.nz/news/2019/12/e-scooters-a-call-to-action</link>
      <description>Our co-presidents Ann Mallinson and Jackie Pope have, after several attempts, finally managed to secure a meeting with the Deputy Mayor, Sarah Free.</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 21 Dec 2019 02:39:12 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://orientalbay.org.nz/news/2019/12/e-scooters-a-call-to-action</guid>
      <dc:creator>Oriental Bay Residents’ Association</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2019-12-21T02:39:12Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Dutch Ambassador trades four wheels for two by cycling to work each day</title>
      <link>http://www.gw.govt.nz/dutch-ambassador-trades-four-wheels-for-two-by-cycling-to-work-each-day/</link>
      <description>The Dutch Ambassador to New Zealand Mira Woldberg is walking the sustainable talk by swapping her embassy car for an e-bike and cycling to work from Wadestown each day.</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2019 01:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.gw.govt.nz/dutch-ambassador-trades-four-wheels-for-two-by-cycling-to-work-each-day/</guid>
      <dc:creator>Greater Wellington Regional Council</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2019-12-12T01:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <georss:featurename>Wadestown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6140, New Zealand</georss:featurename>
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      <title>Feedback-a-rama 2: e-scooters and huge transport plans!</title>
      <link>https://talkwellington.org.nz/2019/feedback-a-rama-2-e-scooters-and-huge-transport-plans/</link>
      <description>Last hurrah folks!  If you’re time-poor, 5 minutes on the RLTP (with mince pie in hand) gets you a lovely civic glow before the holidays.</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Dec 2019 05:57:56 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://talkwellington.org.nz/2019/feedback-a-rama-2-e-scooters-and-huge-transport-plans/</guid>
      <dc:creator>Talk Wellington</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2019-12-11T05:57:56Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Park rangers take new e-bikes for a spin</title>
      <link>http://www.gw.govt.nz/park-rangers-take-new-e-bikes-for-a-spin/</link>
      <description>Greater Wellington Regional Council takes another step towards its carbon neutral by 2030 goal by providing regional park rangers with electric bikes.</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 2019 22:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.gw.govt.nz/park-rangers-take-new-e-bikes-for-a-spin/</guid>
      <dc:creator>Greater Wellington Regional Council</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2019-10-21T22:30:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>The Let’s Get Welly Riding Vision</title>
      <link>https://talkwellington.org.nz/2019/the-lets-get-welly-riding-vision/</link>
      <description>Riding e-bikes and scooters is often the most affordable and quickest way to get around Wellington, but the infrastructure has been lagging the growth of these new vehicles.</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Sep 2019 12:20:07 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://talkwellington.org.nz/2019/the-lets-get-welly-riding-vision/</guid>
      <dc:creator>Talk Wellington</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2019-09-10T12:20:07Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Rethinking Safety</title>
      <link>https://talkwellington.org.nz/2019/rethinking-safety/</link>
      <description>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.</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 14 Jul 2019 10:34:30 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://talkwellington.org.nz/2019/rethinking-safety/</guid>
      <dc:creator>Talk Wellington</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2019-07-14T10:34:30Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Safer space for cycling (and scooting): what’s wrong with (some of) us?</title>
      <link>https://talkwellington.org.nz/2019/safer-space-for-cycling-and-scooting-whats-wrong-with-some-of-us/</link>
      <description>A recent piece on the sudden scuttling of a flagship London project for safer cycling sparked a few thoughts about local opposition to infrastructure for safer cycling – and e-scooting.</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 23 Jun 2019 19:29:47 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://talkwellington.org.nz/2019/safer-space-for-cycling-and-scooting-whats-wrong-with-some-of-us/</guid>
      <dc:creator>Talk Wellington</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2019-06-23T19:29:47Z</dc:date>
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      <title>E-scooters: a letter to the Mayor</title>
      <link>http://orientalbay.org.nz/news/2019/2/e-scooters-a-letter-to-the-mayor</link>
      <description>The Oriental Bay Residents Association has sent the following letter to the Mayor of Wellington, Justin Lester:&#xD;
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19 February 2019Mayor Justin Lester,Wellington City Council,cc.</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://orientalbay.org.nz/news/2019/2/e-scooters-a-letter-to-the-mayor</guid>
      <dc:creator>Oriental Bay Residents’ Association</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2019-02-20T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <georss:featurename>Oriental Bay, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand</georss:featurename>
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