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• • Stuck in traffic? Promises, promises

    • 9 May 2021
    • Wellington Scoop
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• • Hoea tō waka, row your own canoe

    • 6 May 2021
    • Capital Magazine
    • In a peaceful cul de sac in Newtown, a stone’s throw from the town belt, sits a nondescript brick house that would attract little interest from passers by, except when music occasionally drifts out through the open windows: a scatter of drums, a glittering harp, voices that glide and soar. This is the home of musician Mara TK, his whānau, and his new record label – Meetinghouse Records. Its aim is supporting and releasing indigenous music that, while recognising the past, fixes its vision squarely on the future.
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• • LGWM: doomed to failure?

    • 5 May 2021
    • Wellington Scoop
    • Like many of us, I’ve spent the better part of my career in Wellington working in and around the public sector. As the years and the experience accumulate, it gets easier to see the patterns of behaviour of agencies and organisations and politicians – their ways of operating, if you will. And one of those ways of operating means that Let’s Get Wellington Moving is likely doomed to failure.
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• • LGWM’s anti-rail bias

    • 4 May 2021
    • Wellington Scoop
    • Let’s Get Wellington Moving has recently received a lot of criticism – apparently it’s spending $4million per month, enough to lay 100m of double track through town or purchase half a light rail vehicle (LRV). In my humble opinion, the criticism foisted on them is not scathing enough.
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• • Changes at City Gallery – issues of concern and risk

    • 2 May 2021
    • Wellington Scoop
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• • Changes at City Gallery – absurd, cynical, outrageous

    • 2 May 2021
    • Wellington Scoop
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• • Spark, Chorus, and me

    • 29 Apr 2021
    • Wellington Scoop
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• • House of Fraser

    • 28 Apr 2021
    • Capital Magazine
    • Some say a spell living in Aro Valley is the rite of passage that qualifies you as a true Wellingtonian. Mention of Aro Valley evokes assorted reactions – a nostalgic sigh, a shiver, or sometimes an activist’s swagger. Or even an assertion that if you don’t know it you don’t “get” Wellington. We asked Sharon Greally to look into “the valley.” She talks to long time resident and friend, Hannah Fraser.
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• • What they said about the buses

    • 25 Apr 2021
    • Wellington Scoop
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• • Another bustastrophe

    • 24 Apr 2021
    • Wellington Scoop
    • Public transport is an essential public service. I am with the bus drivers. We, the public, are fed up with another bustastrophe. Bus drivers are essential workers who deserve to be treated well. They need priority recognition, fair and decent work conditions. Who of us can hang around waiting for a ‘job’ in a part time, split shift way, never quite knowing whether we will be home for tea, or working all weekend, or into the night, or whether our pay rate will be a decent one when we go the extra mile? That is not fair and will never make for a reliable service or sufficient numbers of drivers. What is more, we pay rates, taxes and fares so that we can have a reliable non polluting bus system. But we just do not have that.
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• • Why can’t Wellington have fast, cheap or dependable public transport?

    • 23 Apr 2021
    • Capital Magazine
    • By Harriet PalmerFeatured in Capital #13Subscribe to get the real thing here.
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• • WCC and somebody else’s problem

    • 21 Apr 2021
    • Wellington Scoop
    • Douglas Adams wasn’t thinking of the Wellington City Council when he introduced the world to the SEP field. But he might well have been. In his book Life, The Universe, and Everything, he defined the SEP field: Somebody Else’s Problem.
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• • Library without books

    • 19 Apr 2021
    • Wellington Scoop
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• • The (small) cost of cycleways

    • 15 Apr 2021
    • Wellington Scoop
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• • Pedestrians vs cars

    • 14 Apr 2021
    • Wellington Scoop
    • Wellington city councillor Tamatha Paul is leading a new attempt to ban cars from inner city streets. Such plans have been around for more than a decade, but till now they’ve brought no result.
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• • They’re not planning a fourth lane on Wellington Road?

    • 12 Apr 2021
    • Wellington Scoop
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• • Activities and open space in Civic Square

    • 10 Apr 2021
    • Wellington Scoop
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• • Choosing expansion for the Central Library

    • 9 Apr 2021
    • Wellington Scoop
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• • Deciding on the future of Civic Square

    • 8 Apr 2021
    • Wellington Scoop
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• • Bringing life back to Civic Square

    • 4 Apr 2021
    • Wellington Scoop
    • Te Ngakau – Civic Precinct should be the beating heart of our city – a place for events, music, entertainment, relaxation, casual fun, protests, celebrations; a place that reflects our heritage and our stories, a beautiful, flexible, resilient, connected place to enjoy and be proud of – a place for everyone, a place for life!
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• • Architect’s challenge: what is structure?

    • 4 Apr 2021
    • Capital Magazine
    • Architect Katherine Skipper is the Principal at Warren and Mahoney’s Wellington studio.
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• • Treatment needed for Emergency Department

    • 3 Apr 2021
    • Wellington Scoop
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• • 70 NZ Bus cancellations “not good enough”

    • 1 Apr 2021
    • Wellington Scoop
    • Passengers travelling on Metlink services operated by NZ Bus experienced almost 70 last-minute cancellations on Wednesday. Metlink General Manager Scott Gallacher said the recent service from NZ Bus simply wasn’t good enough.
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• • Getting change by making trouble

    • 31 Mar 2021
    • Wellington Scoop
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• • Missing the buses: why so many cancellations?

    • 28 Mar 2021
    • Wellington Scoop
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• • Preparing for more rates increases

    • 26 Mar 2021
    • Wellington Scoop
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• • Is the show over before we see the programme?

    • 25 Mar 2021
    • Wellington Scoop
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• • What must be done, and how to do it

    • 22 Mar 2021
    • Wellington Scoop
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• • Finding out about the CBD

    • 19 Mar 2021
    • Wellington Scoop
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• • The mystery of $75m for the airport – part 2

    • 15 Mar 2021
    • Wellington Scoop
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