Save the Basin Reserve! / June 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.
July 2011 | April 2011-
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NZTA are spineless
- Save the Basin Reserve!
- Fresh from a meeting with NZTA's "stakeholder engagement manager" for the Save The Basin Reserve campaign - actually a hired gun from Opus Consulting - we've learned that the NZ Transport Agency will not be fronting up to any public meetings during the consultation process.
- Tagged as:
- consultation
- basin-reserve-flyover
Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Petanque in Buckle Street this Saturday
- Save the Basin Reserve!
- Living Streets Aotearoa are planning to play petanque in Buckle Street this Saturday 2 July at 1pm, reclaiming the area for people instead of cars.
- Automatically tagged as:
- basin-reserve
- basin-reserve-flyover
- lobby-groups
- cricket
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"Rail against the roads" protest at Parliament, Wednesday 6 July
- Save the Basin Reserve!
- There's a protest against the National Party's neanderthal transport policies and the impact of their incessant road building being held at Parliament on Wednesday 6 July, starting at midday.
- Tagged as:
- basin-reserve-flyover
- events
Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Let the consultation theatre begin!
- Save the Basin Reserve!
- The NZ Transport Agency today announced that they will be commencing "consultation" on the Basin Reserve flyover on Monday 4th July.
- Tagged as:
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Ian McKinnon's faeries at the bottom of the garden
- Save the Basin Reserve!
- Every month the Mt Victoria Newsletter publishes an opinion piece from one of the WCC Lambton Ward councillors, and this month it was the turn of Deputy Mayor Ian McKinnon - who published one of the most incoherent pieces of blather about transport projects that we've ever seen.
- Automatically tagged as:
- basin-reserve
- basin-reserve-flyover
- lobby-groups
- cricket
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NZTA's ultimatum: a flyover or a flyover
- Save the Basin Reserve!
- The Dominion Post is reporting what we had assumed all along - the NZ Transport Agency's engineers are going all-out for a flyover, and have ruled out all other options.
- Automatically tagged as:
- basin-reserve
- basin-reserve-flyover
- lobby-groups
- cricket
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