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• • Translating the Transport Agency

    • 26 Sep 2014
    • Wellington Scoop
    • We’ve all looked at some of the Transport Agency’s pronouncements over recent years and wondered what they really meant. Fear not, we’re here to save the day by translating their latest statement on the Basin Reserve flyover appeal – from High Bureaucratese into Plain English:
    • Accepted from Wellington Scoop features 78 months ago
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• • Flyover appeal – progress and certainty, or confusion and more delays?

    • 25 Sep 2014
    • Wellington Scoop
    • Accepted from Wellington Scoop features 78 months ago
    • Tagged as:
    • basinreserve
  
  

• • Three years of chaos: Wellington’s public transport plan, and how to fix it

    • 16 Sep 2014
    • Wellington Scoop
    • Since the Transport Agency’s Basin Reserve flyover plan was cancelled, there’ve been claims that it has thrown Greater Wellington’s Public Transport Plan into chaos. In fact the plan has been in chaos much longer: at least three years. The 2014 plan has been approved but is in reality a train-wreck. Dramatic improvements in public transport usually need institutional change, which is now clearly essential in Wellington.
    • Accepted from Wellington Scoop features 79 months ago
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    • basinreserve
  
  

• • Why community consultation is needed, not melodrama, after flyover rejection

    • 24 Aug 2014
    • Wellington Scoop
    • The Architectural Centre, one of a number of groups opposing the Basin flyover, urges the region’s mayors and the Transport Agency not to shut the community out of discussions on possible future options for the Basin Reserve and other future Wellington transport projects.
    • Accepted from Wellington Scoop features 79 months ago
    • Tagged as:
    • consultation
    • basinreserve
  
  

• • More than five years’ opposition to a flyover at the Basin Reserve

    • 9 May 2014
    • Wellington Scoop
    • Since Wellington.Scoop was established five and a half years ago, we have published more than 250 reports and articles about plans for a flyover alongside the Basin Reserve, and the substantial community concerns about these plans.
    • Accepted from Wellington Scoop features 83 months ago
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• • Hideous and imposing – Martin Snedden describes impact of Basin flyover

    • 7 May 2014
    • Wellington Scoop
    • Accepted from Wellington Scoop features 83 months ago
    • Tagged as:
    • basinreserve
  
  

• • 49 issues about the flyover

    • 2 Dec 2013
    • Wellington Scoop
    • Accepted from Wellington Scoop features 88 months ago
    • Tagged as:
    • basinreserve
  
  

• • Before and after the flyover

    • 27 Nov 2013
    • Wellington Scoop
    • Accepted from Wellington Scoop features 88 months ago
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    • basinreserve
  
  

• • Councillor Morrison and the Basin Reserve

    • 2 Oct 2013
    • Wellington Scoop
    • Accepted from Wellington Scoop features 90 months ago
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    • basinreserve
    • election-2013-candidates
  
  

• • Not only KFC

    • 19 Sep 2013
    • Wellington Scoop
    • Accepted from Wellington Scoop features 90 months ago
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    • basinreserve
  
  

• • Opus and the flyover

    • 9 Sep 2013
    • Wellington Scoop
    • It’s evident that the Wellington consulting company Opus is being employed to give substantial support to the Transport Agency’s plan for a flyover alongside the Basin Reserve. This is shown by the fact that of the 21 technical reports commissioned by the Agency in favour of the flyover, ten of them were written by Opus.
    • Accepted from Wellington Scoop features 91 months ago
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    • basinreserve
  
  

• • Divided over the flyover

    • 23 Aug 2013
    • Wellington Scoop
    • The city council has voted in favour of a flyover at the Basin Reserve, in spite of the fact that the city continues to be deeply divided over the issue. The vote, by 7 to 6, is a disappointment for Mayor Celia Wade-Brown, who has argued against the flyover since she successfully campaigned for the mayoralty against the pro-flyover mayor Kerry Prendergast. It was a narrow win, and for a while the new council had a one-vote majority against the flyover. But then Andy Foster changed sides.
    • Accepted from Wellington Scoop features 91 months ago
    • Tagged as:
    • wcc
    • basinreserve
  
  

• • They didn’t like it but they voted yes

    • 22 Aug 2013
    • Wellington Scoop
    • I wish I’d been at yesterday’s Regional Council meeting. I would like to have heard more about why two regional councillors voted to support the Basin Reserve flyover after explaining why they didn’t like it. The DomPost reports from the meeting about the reluctant “yes” votes from Judith Aitken and Chris Laidlaw.
    • Accepted from Wellington Scoop features 91 months ago
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    • basinreserve
  
  

• • Replacing green space with green space

    • 21 Aug 2013
    • Wellington Scoop
    • You can’t help agreeing with Helene Ritchie. After reading a Wellington City Council document showing plans to create green space in the middle of Kent and Cambridge Terraces, she pointed out correctly that there’s already green space in this area.
    • Accepted from Wellington Scoop features 91 months ago
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    • basinreserve
  
  

• • The two-faced flyover

    • 12 Aug 2013
    • Wellington Scoop
    • The flyover at the Basin Reserve will have two faces. The Basin Reserve face is too terrible to seen by cricketers, so it will be hidden by a new $12million building paid from roading funds. The other face won’t be hidden from anyone. Its ugliness will be seen by everyone else in the city, 24 hours a day, till the flyover is eventually demolished.
    • Accepted from Wellington Scoop features 92 months ago
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    • basinreserve
  
  

• • Inevitable? Why one Basin flyover will be followed by a second Basin flyover

    • 12 Aug 2013
    • Wellington Scoop
    • The NZ Transport Agency should come clean on its flyover plans. Our practice believes that one flyover will pave the way for a second. The Agency’s proposed options for mitigation of the flyover, which it has developed in agreement with the Wellington City Council, include a “commitment to consolidate state highway traffic away from Vivian Street and into a single east-west corridor.”
    • Accepted from Wellington Scoop features 92 months ago
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    • basinreserve
  
  

• • Blown away by the flyover

    • 8 Aug 2013
    • Wellington Scoop
    • There’s a new addition to the list of bad things about the flyover that the Transport Agency wants to build alongside the Basin Reserve – motorbikes or light trucks could be blown over in strong winds while they’re on it, and there’ll be problems for pedestrians too.
    • Accepted from Wellington Scoop features 92 months ago
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    • basinreserve
  
  

• • Another plan for avoiding the flyover

    • 3 Aug 2013
    • Wellington Scoop
    • Accepted from Wellington Scoop features 92 months ago
    • Tagged as:
    • basinreserve
  
  

• • At a Kapiti hui, advice about fighting a flyover at the Basin Reserve

    • 12 Jun 2013
    • Wellington Scoop
    • Accepted from Wellington Scoop features 94 months ago
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    • basinreserve
  
  

• • Three lanes into two for the new Buckle Street tunnel

    • 28 Mar 2013
    • Wellington Scoop
    • Most Wellingtonians rightly believe that the Basin Reserve flyover will be a very expensive eyesore. Some have accepted it with the idea that it will improve traffic flows. But after a careful examination of the Transport Agency’s working plans, it seems obvious that the flyover will not improve overall traffic flows, but will more likely make rush hour traffic worse and cause more accidents.
    • Accepted from Wellington Scoop features 96 months ago
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    • basinreserve

    Buckle Street, Mt. Victoria, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand/Aotearoa
  
  

• • “I disagree with a flyover … increasing capacity at the Basin won’t help”

    • 19 Mar 2013
    • Wellington Scoop
    • Accepted from Wellington Scoop features 96 months ago
    • Tagged as:
    • basinreserve
  
  

• • Thursday’s flyover vote: the best interests of the coolest little capital

    • 17 Mar 2013
    • Wellington Scoop
    • I’ve been told that a couple of the Wellington city councillors who opposed the flyover in December may be thinking of switching sides. We won’t know till Thursday’s meeting. But it would be a negative result for the city if any of the eight are giving up.
    • Accepted from Wellington Scoop features 96 months ago
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    • wcc
    • basinreserve
  
  

• • Fran versus Celia: flyover tactics, closed minds, and a super bureaucracy

    • 11 Mar 2013
    • Wellington Scoop
    • The Transport Agency’s no-choice tactics to promote a Basin Reserve flyover have evidently appealed to Fran Wilde and her supporters on the regional council’s local-government-reform working party. The working party has come up with two options for local government reform – and they’re both for a super city. They’re no-choice options.
    • Accepted from Wellington Scoop features 97 months ago
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    • basinreserve
    • wcc
    • regional-council
  
  

• • Richard Reid fights back – fundamental flaws in the council’s flyover report

    • 7 Mar 2013
    • Wellington Scoop
    • Accepted from Wellington Scoop features 97 months ago
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• • Unaffordable? Yeah, right

    • 4 Mar 2013
    • Wellington Scoop
    • The Transport Agency and the like-minded analysts at the city council are telling us that anything other than a flyover is unaffordable at the Basin Reserve. Which is a reminder that the Agency insisted for years it couldn’t afford to put State Highway 1 into a tunnel under the National War Memorial Park. Then came a political decision, instructing the agency to move the highway underground. What had been unaffordable became affordable, in a flash.
    • Accepted from Wellington Scoop features 97 months ago
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    • basinreserve
    • wcc
  
  

• • Concrete jungle … naked concrete flyover

    • 2 Mar 2013
    • Wellington Scoop
    • On the same day that an overseas expert condemned Auckland for building a “concrete jungle” in its CBD, the Wellington City Council was told that it couldn’t do anything to stop the Transport Agency building a “naked concrete” flyover across a historic part of the city.
    • Accepted from Wellington Scoop features 97 months ago
    • Tagged as:
    • wcc
    • basinreserve
  
  

• • Flyover – condemned by Agency’s experts

    • 7 Jan 2013
    • Wellington Scoop
    • Accepted from Wellington Scoop features 99 months ago
    • Tagged as:
    • basinreserve
  
  

• • Conflict of interest: the Agency says more

    • 28 Dec 2012
    • Wellington Scoop
    • Accepted from Wellington Scoop features 99 months ago
    • Tagged as:
    • basinreserve
  
  

• • Don’t mention it’s 9m high and 380m long

    • 22 Dec 2012
    • Wellington Scoop
    • Accepted from Wellington Scoop features 99 months ago
    • Tagged as:
    • basinreserve
  
  

• • The Transport Agency’s threatening tactics

    • 21 Dec 2012
    • Wellington Scoop
    • Accepted from Wellington Scoop features 99 months ago
    • Tagged as:
    • basinreserve