Transport / August 2008
September 2008 | July 2008-
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Disruption to GO Wellington bus services - 3 September 2008
- Go Wellington
- Due to a scheduled union stop work meeting, all GO Wellington routes will be unavailable on Wednesday, 3 September between the hours of 10am and 2pm. Services will be reduced prior to the stop work meeting, from 9am until 10am, and again following it, from 2pm until 4pm.
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Positive Meeting with Go Wellington
- Mt Victoria Residents Association
- Good progress has been made with Go Wellington in an effort to resolve the issue of out-of-service buses using the Pirie Street bus tunnel.According to the Greater Wellington Council bylaw, only scheduled services that have been registered with the Council may use the tunnel. At a meeting convened by GWRC, Go Wellington acknowledged that there was an imperfect understanding of the rules by some drivers, and undertook to educate staff better.
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- hataitai
- transport
- bus-tunnel
Hataitai tunnel, Wellington
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Snip Snap: Sardines, Oysters, Snappers … and Tagging
- Eye of the Fish
- It’s hard to imagine the joy I felt this morning catching the bus to work and finally seeing someone else actually using a Snapper Card. I had been quietly trying to convince myself that the seemingly slow uptake of this local version of London’s Oyster card was due to unspent currency of 10-ride bus tickets - but alas there always seemed to be too much hard cash being exchanged between driver and passenger to validate this one.
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snapped? (wha)
- The Wellingtonista
- It's been a couple weeks since we last checked in on Snapper. The Snapper rollout has continued apace, and some of us haven't used our old ten-trips for two whole weeks! (Well, we were excited about this, anyway.) More and more people are boarding buses armed with the cards; and more and more buses (and their drivers) are ready to take them. And in the meantime we've learnt many things.
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- fares
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Te Karo Park
- Eye of the Fish
- Following fast on the footsteps of the previous post on Courtenay Park, which some are labeling as ‘grim’, I’d like to put forward another contender for the title of ‘grim urban park’: yes, that of the SLOAP that is the ‘park’ of the Bypass.
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- architecture
- bypass
327 Willis Street, Wellington
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A Mural for the Tunnel
- Mt Victoria Residents Association
- The Pirie Street bus tunnel has long been a magnet for graffiti, and in an effort to help make the area more attractive the Council is considering commissioning a mural. The design concept can be seen above, and has been designed by Robert Stewart.
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- art
- transport
- bus-tunnel
Hataitai bus tunnel, Hataitai, Wellington, Wellington Region, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Banalitecture
- Eye of the Fish
- I’ve just spotted this blank wall being constructed beside the main route into the city from the airport. Facing north, providing a beautiful backdrop for shadow play of pohutukawa, as well as a future venue for no doubt countless mindless scribblings, is a blank wall. Courtesy of the ArcHaus architectural team.
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- airport
- architecture
- kilbirnie
Cobham Drive, Wellington
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