Fares and Elections 2010
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Public transport fare changes
- WCC Watch
- Greater Wellington Regional Council has ignored the campaign for fairer fares for tertiary students as it drafted a new fare structure for all bus, rail and ferry trips.
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Aitken Angst
- WCC Watch
- We got a rare insight into Greater Wellington Regional Council-Wellington City Council dynamics when regional councillor Judith Aitken posted this odd statement on Celia Wade-Brown’s Facebook about her (last time I checked, fellow Labour Party) colleague Daran Ponter: This prompted the following stinging rebuke from Daran Ponter and Wellington City councillor Paul Eagle: Good on Ponter for calling her out. Oh, Baby Boomer with a 100% subsided Gold Card, please tell me more about how we can’t increase public transport subsidies. This is staggering. If you’re a Regional Councillor, you would need to have been hiding under a rock for the past few years not to be aware of the issues around public transport. And you’d expect someone who has been on the GWRC since 2001 to already be discussing issues with their WCC colleagues and community stakeholders. Aitken doesn’t even live in the constituency area she is elected to represent (Wellington City), enjoys fully subsidised public transport with her tax-payer funded Gold Card, and is one of those local government shapeshifters, like Helene Ritchie, who get elected to both a council and a health board purely on name recognition, then aren’t in a hurry to leave anytime soon. She should retire and let a new, fresh, and forward thinking person take her seat and actually represent Wellington City. They deserve better.
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All aboard?
- WCC Watch
- It seems a student campaign pushing for tertiary student concession fares on public transport is hitting a nerve.
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Snapper for trains?
- WCC Watch
- Very interesting revelation in today’s Dom Post that the GWRC is missing out on about $9,000 in train fares every weekday because the trains are too crowded for ticket collectors to get to the patrons… It was revealed today that Greater Wellington regional council has lost about $260,000 as overcrowding on trains prevents staff from collecting fares.
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Its about our buses
- Mark Greening
- Recently we have heard a lot about light rail, as part of a long term public transport vision.
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Are New Wellington Bus Fares Fair - or Sensible?
- Sharon Blaikie
- There seems to be a bit of a disconnect between the Wellington Regional Council transport policy and the needs of Wellington City.
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Rising Prices, Poverty and Peak Oil
- Bryan Pepperell - Back To The Future
- Come and hear about - bus fare increases - GST - child poverty - Peak Oil and say what you think we should do about these problems. Newtown Hall (Cnr Constable and Daniell Streets, Newtown) 10am Saturday 7 June There will be light refreshments afterwards. Issued by Campaign Against Rising Prices
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Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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