Lobby Groups / July 2011
August 2011 | June 2011-
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Why has the Basin Reserve Trust failed to do its job?
- Save the Basin Reserve!
- In today's editorial, The Wellingtonian editor Joseph Romanos inaccurately and unfairly characterizes the Save The Basin Reserve Campaign as anti-roading: "But instead of fronting a politically suicidal campaign called Ban Cars, they chose the more emotive Save the Basin, their logic being that a major road linking Buckle St to the Mt Victoria Tunnel would have a detrimental impact on the sportsmen doing their thing at the Basin. The news that the Basin Reserve trustees had negotiated for a grandstand to be built at the northern end of the ground leaves these campaigners in a quandary. Romanos may be using the inflammatory language and approach of tabloid journalism - trying to report the conflict rather than the issue - but he does raise a key question: why has the Basin Reserve Trust failed to to its job?
- Accepted from Save the Basin posts
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$11.5 million to buy votes around the council table
- Save the Basin Reserve!
- The Dominion Post is reporting that a deal has been reached between the NZ Transport Agency and the Basin Reserve Trust to construct a new stand at the Basin Reserve - with the explicit intention of hiding the ugly flyover only 20 metres from the boundary fence.
- Accepted from Save the Basin posts
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Option X
- Save the Basin Reserve!
- The Architecture Centre has launched the real alternative to the NZ Transport Agency's disastrous plans for the Basin Reserve - Option X.
- Accepted from Save the Basin posts
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What traffic growth?
- Save the Basin Reserve!
- The NZ Transport Agency says that we need an ugly, intrusive flyover at the Basin Reserve because the traffic congestion is choking the city, and it's necessary to have faster-moving traffic on State Highway 1.
- Accepted from Save the Basin posts
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Te Tai Poutini polytech finds new funding stream
- Save the Basin Reserve!
- Te Tai Poutini Polytechnic is receiving an additional $750 million funding from Minister Steven Joyce after changing its name to the South Western Motorway.
- Accepted from Save the Basin posts
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Our billboard is now up at the Basin Reserve!
- Save the Basin Reserve!
- Located behind the RA Vance stand. read more
- Accepted from Save the Basin posts
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79% opposition to the flyover - and a news roundup
- Save the Basin Reserve!
- An eagle-eyed contributor made mention of the fact that some 79% of submissions made on the Ngauranga to Airport Corridor Plan back in 2008 were against a flyover at the Basin Reserve.
- Accepted from Save the Basin posts
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Ruahine Street: another Karo Drive debacle in the making
- Save the Basin Reserve!
- The Dominion Post is busy engaging in some 1960's era civic boosterism in today's editorial, talking up all the alleged benefits of the NZ Transport Agency's roading projects and hoping - hoping! - that the flyover, tunnels and road widenings won't take as long to construct as the much-derided Inner City Bypass.
- Accepted from Save the Basin posts
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Consultation begins, but no options other than flyovers
- Save the Basin Reserve!
- The NZ Transport Agency has begun their consultation on the Basin Reserve flyover with a PR assault designed to convince Wellingtonians that it's the only possible choice.
- Accepted from Save the Basin posts
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