Regional Council / August 2019
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Harbour sediment rates too high for healthy habitats
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- A recent survey of Te Awarua-o-Porirua Harbour shows sedimentation rates have more than doubled in the last five years, undermining animal and plant habitats and the healthy functioning of this estuary.
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Porirua, Wellington Region, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Greater Wellington carbon neutrality underway with new native forest planting system
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- A new native forest planting system is helping Greater Wellington Regional Council achieve its biodiversity and climate change goals.
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Environment fund helps support community groups
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- Applications for Greater Wellington Regional Council’s Community Environment Fund are open with the aim of supporting community groups to restore, maintain and protect our native ecosystems.
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Women empowered with cycle workshops
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- Cycling workshops for migrant, former refugee and low income women are coming to local communities with an aim to empower people with a safe, low cost form of transport.
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Greater Wellington announces package to tackle climate change
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- Greater Wellington Regional Council agreed unanimously on an ambitious package to tackle climate change, combatting the impacts already being felt across the region, at its Council meeting on August 21.
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Metlink welcomes purchase of Mana Coach Services
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- Metlink welcomes news today that Transdev Australasia have agreed terms to acquire Mana Coach Services.
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5000 new trees thanks to Spade Aid
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- Hundreds of planters of all ages flooded into Queen Elizabeth Park on Sunday, putting 5000 trees in the ground for this year’s Spade Aid event.
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Children learn to ‘cross with care’ during Rail Safety Week
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- 13-year-old Nichola from Avalon Intermediate pulls a train into Wellington Station on Metlink’s train simulator.
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Kaiwharawhara proposed as preferred site for multi-user terminal for Cook Strait Ferries
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- A plan for a more resilient Cook Strait ferry network has taken a step forward with the announcement that Kaiwharawhara is being considered as the preferred site for a potential new multi-user ferry terminal, pending further detailed investigation into its resilience.
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Temporary peak bus changes to provide customer certainty during Tranzurban driver shortage
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- Metlink has released details on a range of temporary peak bus changes as part of measures to provide customers with certainty over the next six months, while Tranzurban addresses its driver shortage.
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Planting empowers potential for Porirua waterway
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- Students from Natone, Porirua and Windley schools got digging this week, planting over 600 trees at Bothamley Park thanks to a collaboration between Greater Wellington Regional Council, Sustainable Coastlines and Porirua City Council.
- Accepted from GW media releases 2019 by feedreader
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Porirua, Wellington Region, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Greater Wellington seeks funding for new trains
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- Greater Wellington Regional Council plans to improve the region’s rail network with new longer distance rolling stock upgrading the Wairarapa and Capital Connection fleets are underway.
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RiverLink shifts up a gear
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- After several years of planning and preliminary design, work on Lower Hutt’s most ambitious transformation project is starting to ramp-up.
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Cyclists and bus drivers switch places
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- Greater Wellington Regional Council’s Travel Choice team recently joined NZBus to run a Wellington workshop where cyclists and bus drivers switched seats to feel what it is like to ride in each other’s shoes.
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Report advances knowledge on impact of climate change on coastal communities
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- A report analysing the vulnerability of coastal communities to climate change has been released by Greater Wellington Regional Council and the region’s councils.
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