Regional Council / May 2019
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Local school awarded for getting active
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- St Claudine Thevenet School students Georgia O’Grady (left) and Canon Hakaraia with Greater Wellington Travel Choice Coordinator Kirsty Barr St Claudine Thevenet School scooped up a prize for the highest participation rate in the Hutt City district for Movin’March which encourages kids to walk, cycle and scoot to school.
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Town meets country at Belmont Regional Park
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- Belmont Regional Park farm licence holders Dion and Ali Kilmister are striving to reduce the urban-rural gap, and what better place for that than a farm that is run inside a public park.
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Childhood dream comes true
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- (From left): Lara Franklin, Hayden Smith, Justin Prout, Jonathan Tulitt, Lewis Otto, Sundeep Pinto, William Delaney A childhood dream has come true for one Wellingtonian who was officially signed off as Transdev’s newest train driver last week.
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Big prizes for little movers
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- Names have been drawn and winners have been announced for a month-long initiative that encouraged students to walk, cycle and scoot to school.
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Akura sale helps fight climate change
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- Greater Wellington Regional Council calls on locals to help fight climate change by planting more trees.
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Greater Wellington welcomes PTOM review announcement
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- Greater Wellington Regional Council has welcomed the decision by the Minster of Transport, Phil Twyford, to review the Public Transport Operating Model (PTOM).
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What’s living on our land?
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- Greater Wellington environmental science team members Katherine deSilva and Barrett Pistol measuring a tree on a monitoring plot Environmental scientists have wrapped up year five of a project which allows changes in plant, bird and pest species to be accurately monitored and gives insight on how to create a healthier Wellington region.
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Whaitua Committee elects Co-chairs for Wellington/Hutt Valley water work
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- Co-chair Kara Puketapu-Dentice Co-chair Louise Askin Te Whanganui-a-Tara Whaitua Committee has elected two ‘Co-chairs’ to reflect the Committee’s commitment to taking a partnership approach with Mana Whenua.
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Greater Wellington welcomes serious commitment to freeing up city congestion for public transport
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- GWRC has welcomed a multi-billion dollar transport funding announcement as a serious commitment to freeing up congestion for public transport in Wellington city.
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Flood protection work to go ahead on Waikanae River
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- Greater Wellington Regional Council is to extract gravel and realign the Waikanae River channel next to the El Rancho campsite in Waikanae to manage flood risks in the area caused by a build-up of gravel on the riverbed.
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Metlink kick-starts depot improvements to meet rapidly increasing demand
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- Metlink, in partnership with Transdev Wellington and Hyundai-Rotem Wellington is kick-starting an improvement programme to increase performance at Wellington’s maintenance depot to provide more reliability for rapidly increasing commuter demand.
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Cycle skills spread countrywide
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- Greater Wellington Regional Council cycle skills programme lead Matt Shipman (front, middle) leads a BikeReady programme in Blenheim.
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Greater Wellington lights the way for outbound shipping
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- An additional navigation light designed to help ships safely navigate their exit from Wellington Harbour will be in place by mid-year.
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An environmental footprint to be proud of – soil conservator retires after 44 years
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- After 44 years with the organisation soil conservator Stan Braaksma is hanging up his boots and retiring from the Greater Wellington Regional Council.
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Students encouraged to take action
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- Enviroschools and the Greater Wellington Regional Council have banded together to create a resource encouraging school students to think about sustainable travel such as walking, cycling or scooting.
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