Save the Basin Reserve! / January 2010
The Basin Reserve is one of the world's iconic cricket grounds, and New Zealand's oldest dedicated cricket pitch. It's an oasis of green space in the heart of the capital. But there is widespread community concern about the intention of three government agencies - the New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA), the Greater Wellington Regional Council (GWRC) and the Wellington City Council (WCC) - to build a huge concrete flyover across the northern side of the Basin Reserve, destroying the atmosphere of the Basin Reserve forever.
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Architecture Centre gets its thinking cap on
- Save the Basin Reserve!
- Fresh from its consideration of the shape of the city in 2040, the Architecture Centre has taken a look at the Basin Reserve and come up with some innovative approaches.
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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DomPost: Engineer shortage will hit infrastructure projects
- Save the Basin Reserve!
- The DominionPost is reporting that shortages of engineers are likely to drive up the costs and delay the completion of infrastructure projects across the country: New Zealand will suffer a shortage of engineers and technical professionals as it embarks on multibillion-dollar infrastructure projects over the next decade, industry sources say.
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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wellington.scoop asks: why is NZTA so unpopular?
- Save the Basin Reserve!
- Over on wellington.scoop Lindsay Shelton is asking how the NZ Transport Agency has become the object of so much contempt from local communities. He notes that even columnist Karl du Fresne at the Dominion Post is increasingly skeptical about the performance of this agency: read more
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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We respond to NZTA's disinformation
- Save the Basin Reserve!
- The NZ Transport Agency has created a few web pages about the Basin Reserve flyover, and it's pretty apparent they are trying to hide their real intentions behind some slick PR spin. Having looked at their Frequently Asked Questions and Orwellian answers, we thought it might be useful to provide the real responses to the questions.
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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FAQs: The Real Answers
- Save the Basin Reserve!
- The NZ Transport Agency has provided some FAQs about the Basin Reserve flyover, which are an exceptional display of Orwellian double-speak - so we thought we'd boil off the weasel-words and provide the actual answers to the questions, as well as some questions (and answers) that NZTA would prefer weren't asked.
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The NZTA consultation process
- Save the Basin Reserve!
- Before Christmas the NZ Transport Agency began an "engagement process" with groups who are regarded as stakeholders in the Basin Reserve project. (This is euphemistically referred to as the "Basin Reserve Traffic Improvements", rather than being called a flyover. George Orwell would be proud.) In a series of meetings - which included the Save The Basin Reserve Campaign - NZTA outlined the next stages of the consultation process.
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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