Save the Basin Reserve! / July 2011
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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Why has the Basin Reserve Trust failed to do its job?
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- In today's editorial, The Wellingtonian editor Joseph Romanos inaccurately and unfairly characterizes the Save The Basin Reserve Campaign as anti-roading: "But instead of fronting a politically suicidal campaign called Ban Cars, they chose the more emotive Save the Basin, their logic being that a major road linking Buckle St to the Mt Victoria Tunnel would have a detrimental impact on the sportsmen doing their thing at the Basin. The news that the Basin Reserve trustees had negotiated for a grandstand to be built at the northern end of the ground leaves these campaigners in a quandary. Romanos may be using the inflammatory language and approach of tabloid journalism - trying to report the conflict rather than the issue - but he does raise a key question: why has the Basin Reserve Trust failed to to its job?
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$11.5 million to buy votes around the council table
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- The Dominion Post is reporting that a deal has been reached between the NZ Transport Agency and the Basin Reserve Trust to construct a new stand at the Basin Reserve - with the explicit intention of hiding the ugly flyover only 20 metres from the boundary fence.
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Option X
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- The Architecture Centre has launched the real alternative to the NZ Transport Agency's disastrous plans for the Basin Reserve - Option X.
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What traffic growth?
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- The NZ Transport Agency says that we need an ugly, intrusive flyover at the Basin Reserve because the traffic congestion is choking the city, and it's necessary to have faster-moving traffic on State Highway 1.
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Te Tai Poutini polytech finds new funding stream
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- Te Tai Poutini Polytechnic is receiving an additional $750 million funding from Minister Steven Joyce after changing its name to the South Western Motorway.
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Our billboard is now up at the Basin Reserve!
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- Located behind the RA Vance stand. read more
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79% opposition to the flyover - and a news roundup
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- An eagle-eyed contributor made mention of the fact that some 79% of submissions made on the Ngauranga to Airport Corridor Plan back in 2008 were against a flyover at the Basin Reserve.
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Ruahine Street: another Karo Drive debacle in the making
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- The Dominion Post is busy engaging in some 1960's era civic boosterism in today's editorial, talking up all the alleged benefits of the NZ Transport Agency's roading projects and hoping - hoping! - that the flyover, tunnels and road widenings won't take as long to construct as the much-derided Inner City Bypass.
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Consultation begins, but no options other than flyovers
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- The NZ Transport Agency has begun their consultation on the Basin Reserve flyover with a PR assault designed to convince Wellingtonians that it's the only possible choice.
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