Transport / August 2010
September 2010 | July 2010-
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Capital’s Buses Go Battery Power
- Auckland Trains
- Wellington’s inner city electric buses will have to run on battery power for over 2 months – with people stationed around the city employed to just take the bus poles up and down.
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Are you disappointed by the National Cycleway?
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- Last November I predicted we’d soon be seeing the then new logo for the New Zealand Cycle Trail on signs up and down the country.
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I wanna be a Shweeb Dweeb
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- Yet another cool idea at the design intersection of bikes and public transport.
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A second Mt Victoria tunnel in ten years – yes, no, maybe?
- Wellington Scoop
- Wellington Mayor Kerry Prendergast took everyone by surprise this week by enabling a headline which stated uncategorically: Green light for second Mt Vic Tunnel. The headline is in The Wellingtonian, above a report written by Rebecca Thompson. But there’s no evidence of a green light, or even an orange one.
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Mt. Victoria, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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SH2 - Silverstream to Moonshine safety improvements update
- NZTA's State Highways Manager Rob Whight says NZTA needs to put in place speed restrictions for northbound road users while this work is being done. "From Monday 6 September, to facilitate the road widening work on the western side of the highway and ensure the safety of road users, all traffic travelling north beyond the Silverstream intersection will be restricted to one lane only. A 70km/hr speed restriction will apply until further notice.
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Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Sail carts, land yachts and recumbent trikes
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- On old maps of Asia, where as medieval cartographers would draw sea monsters in the oceans, they would sometimes draw Mongol sail carts in the middle of the steppe.
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The Syntax of Public Transport
- Eye of the Fish
- Following on from previous discussions on all things transport and urban, I’ve had a play round and tried to depict some of the issues that are striking the city planners and traffic engineers – as well as causing wrangles between Mayor Kerry and Sir Bob Jones.
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What to do with parking fines?
- Wellington Scoop
- After claims that Wellington parking wardens were given ipods and overseas trips to encourage revenue gathering, the Wellington City Council put an end to the speculation – there was just one ipod, and one overseas trip. Both prizes were gifted in a warden’s competition which had nothing to do with how much revenue they’d collected. Fair enough, too. Many employees are offered rewards for a whole range of reasons. But public perception is hard to shake. So, what should the council do? Here’s an idea that’s guaranteed to please everybody. Well, nearly everybody.
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Kapiti Expressway Opposition
- Auckland Trains
- Wellington’s Kapiti expressway debate is hotting up with a three-hour public meeting attended by 300 people and Labour calling on it to be a local election issue next issue over stopping the project.
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Hataitai Tunnel To Be Bus Only
- Auckland Trains
- Should buses only be allowed to use Wellington’s Mt Vic bus tunnel, which runs between Pirie Street in Mt Victoria and Waitoa Road,Hataitai? It’s been a hotly debated issue – just like Auckland’s debate about when cars should be allowed to use Grafton Bridge.
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Hataitai bus tunnel, Hataitai, Wellington, Wellington Region, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Wgtn Rail Rap
- Auckland Trains
- A group of Wellington law students and graduates has created a You Tube clip about Wellington’s rail service and current level of service!
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Stop …
- Architectural Centre Inc
- Almost every time I catch a bus the thing that strikes me (other than the almost always lateness of Wellington buses), is how inadequate bus stops are in their design for shelter. It seems that I’m not the only one thinking this way …. With the invention of Adshel and its nasty advertising props parading, inadequately, as bus shelters, is there really any hope that public transport might become the prime mode of moving people around the city?
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Matangi Train Launch Sept 9
- Auckland Trains
- Want have a look inside Wellington’s new Matangi electric trains? You will need to be at the Wellington central rail station on Thursday September 9.
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The Syntax of Wellington Political Space
- Eye of the Fish
- A quick post today to briefly introduce the subject that seems to have got some people excited: that the WCC has hired Space Syntax to map out conditions in Wellington’s CBD.
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Wellington is a cycling city
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- An early drizzly weekday morning in Wellington and there are still hundreds of people riding on the waterfront: There is some suggestion to make the cyclists go along Jervois Quay instead of the waterfront.
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Do we need light rail to the airport?
- WCC Watch
- View This Pollcustomer surveys
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Just Manners …
- Architectural Centre Inc
- Just as Manners Street is being ripped up (with the sort of silliness which means that the sunny side of the street will have the smallest width of footpath) it’s perhaps timely to have a think about the role the road has played in Wellington’s history. Just after the turn of the century (when Perrett’s chemist [...]
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Wellington Rail Work Problems
- Auckland Trains
- In Wellington, work to upgrade the rail signalling system in preparation for the new Matangi trains ran into unexpected complications today.
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Tin-foil hat candidate for the Southern Ward
- WCC Watch
- Seann Paurini has announced he is running for the Southern Ward. He is against “the proliferation of surveillance technologies” and the parking enforcement camera car. Oh well, at least he’s got a niche.
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Ideas for Wellington #2 thru #11
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- I pinched a map from this page on the Greens website.
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Changing the city landscape: Celia Wade-Brown focuses on the mayoralty
- Wellington Scoop
- Meeting places speak volumes. A fair trade clothing sale at Zeal is where mayoral candidate Celia Wade-Brown is scheduled to be on a Monday afternoon, and so that is where we meet her, to hear her plans for a greener and more sustainable Wellington.
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RWC Meets Its Waterloo
- Auckland Trains
- In Wellington, work is starting on Waterloo Quay to transform the pedestrian route between the cruise ship terminal and the city before the Rugby World Cup 2011.
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Why Wellington needs light rail, and why we can afford it
- Wellington Scoop
- One of the biggest daily problems facing Wellingtonians is transport – the simple act of getting from A to B, especially at peak times. In some areas even quiet weekends can be difficult. Yet the current mayor and councillors seem to have little idea of the extent of the problem, let alone how to fix it.
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A Do Nothing for Cyclists Mayor?
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- With the new trains coming the Greater Wellington Regional Council is reviewing its policies for bikes on trains.
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Wellington roads need tolls for cars
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- It seems the NZTA is to waste another $29 million dollars on State Highway 1 between Aotea Quay and the SH1/SH2 split, which is barely more than 3 kilometres.
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Dividing Kapiti in two: “it’s madness”
- Wellington Scoop
- This is part of the new $500million expressway which Kapiti Coast residents are concerned will slice through the heart of their district, dividing east from west. The four-lane expressway is being planned by the New Zealand Transport Authority, but the image – showing four lanes cutting through a residential area of Paraparaumu Beach – wasn’t seen till campaigners obtained it by using the Official Information Act.
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Dunne: new trains need to be matched by new attitude
- Peter Dunn - MP for Ohariu
- UnitedFuture leader and Ohariu MP Peter Dunne today said he was appalled by Tranz Metro’s “cavalier disregard” for Wellington’s 15,000 daily train commuters. Speaking after passengers were told by Tranz Metro that it would get them from A to B, but with no guarantees on the timeframe, Mr Dunne said the subsidiary of State-owned KiwiRail “needs to wake its ideas up”.
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Matangi Hits The Tracks
- Auckland Trains
- Wellington’s first Matangi electric train has landed on the Wellington tracks, its new home.
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Light rail – compare and contrast
- WCC Watch
- The Press is today running a story about Jim Anderton (Chch Mayoral aspirant) slamming Bob Parker’s (sitting Mayor) plans for light rail and an integrated underground bus interchange in the Christchurch CBD.
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