Transport / October 2010
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Losing our heritage: a 104-year-old building, abandoned and dilapidated
- Wellington Scoop
- It had the financial support of Prime Minister Sir Joseph Ward and in its glory days its history included being used as a church hall and a music studio. The scruffy, dilapidated building at 30 Arthur Street used to be the Boys’ Institute – built in 1906 by the same architect who designed the Wellington and Christchurch railway stations.
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Basin Reserve traffic problems – the mayor’s solution doesn’t require a flyover
- Wellington Scoop
- Some expensive ideas about Basin Reserve traffic flow are being worked on by the New Zealand Transport Agency, the city council and the regional council. I disagree with a flyover or any large increase in capacity. However, we could improve north/south bus flow without expensive and intrusive infrastructure.
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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3rd Matangi Arrives
- Auckland Trains
- The third new Matangi electric train unit has arrived in Wellington.
- Submitted by tonytw1
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Rocky for sure
- Eye of the Fish
- On a lovely summer day like today, the last thing you want to be doing is sitting inside – but there is one conversation going on today that we should be talking about – The Rock.
- Submitted by tonytw1
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Wellington International Airport, Coutts Street, Rongotai, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6023, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Porirua Station Upgrade Starts
- Auckland Trains
- Porirua is next in line for Wellington’s train improvements.
- Submitted by tonytw1
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Porirua, Wellington Region, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Roads not light rail looks set to dominate short-term agenda
- WCC Watch
- Troops in mud – not unlike a visit to the Buckle Street war memorial on a rainy day.
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Screaming Jets play Wellington, Sept/Oct 2011
- WCC Watch
- No, this is not a post on the Aussie hard rock band Screaming Jets.
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Wellington International Airport, Coutts Street, Rongotai, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6023, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Why I Want To live In Wellington!
- Auckland Trains
- Good, fast, reliable, frequent public transport including light rail -and a more pedestrian-friendly city including banning cars into the inner city.
- Submitted by tonytw1
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It’s the final countdown
- WCC Watch
- Wellington City Council announce that it’s only six weeks until Manners Mall is no more and the buses will be zapping back and forth under their shiny new wires.
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Manners Buses In 6 Weeks
- Auckland Trains
- Problems have plagued the planned Manners Mall bus route development but the Wellington council is still working on it starting in six weeks, on Sunday November 28.
- Submitted by tonytw1
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Light Rail - How Much and Who Pays?
- Keith Johnson
- COSTS ON THE HEAVY SIDE FOR LIGHT RAILFurther to my post of 6 July 2010 ‘Light Rail and avoiding a Heavy Burden’ and the recent election of our new ‘Green’ Mayor of Wellington on a Light Rail development manifesto, I will be keeping a strict eye on cost issues on behalf of ratepayers over the coming months.
- Submitted by tonytw1
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Getting off parking tickets – ask your council how
- WCC Watch
- This year’s Ombudsmen annual report to Parliament, tabled last week, had an interesting discussion on the disclosure requirements around the rules governing parking ticket waivers (page 39).
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Statement to WCC Watch from the Office of the Mayor
- WCC Watch
- It appears the Dom Post’s story on candidate profiles was not entirely accurate.
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Wellington City parking supremo dies in Sydney
- WCC Watch
- The founder of Tenix, Carlo Salteri, died on Tuesday night in Sydney, aged 89 according to a Sydney Morning Herald report.
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Greens Win Wellington Mayoralty
- Auckland Trains
- Another public transport advocate has taken one of the top metropolitan mayoralties.
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Matangi Tested Under Own Power
- Auckland Trains
- The first new Matangi train has gone up the Johnsonville Line under its own power.
- Submitted by tonytw1
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National’s road building is an expensive white elephant
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- You don’t have to be the Oracle of Delphi to know that NZ’s National-led (with Act clowns) government is going to spend a whole bucket of money to achieve very little in Wellington and it is going to do so building a slew of over-priced and unaffordable roads.
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Another Pro-Rail Brown Mayor
- Auckland Trains
- Lost in the Auckland north with all the attention to the Len Brown win is the fact Wellington may have a very pro-public transport Greenie mayor within days. The Greens’ Celia Wade-Brown is only 40 votes away from winning with 960 specials to be counted. Celia Wade-Brown, like her northern namesake, Len Brown, campaigned on a transport policy -and being a Greenie, it was all about choices such as walking and cycling. But central to her campaign was a promise of light rail for the capital.
- Submitted by tonytw1
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Electric bike share
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- This blog sits in the nexus of bicycles and public transport being interested in bike technologies and the real meaning of the word sustainability, not as some fancy buzz word used by limited ability politicians, but as a real fix the world, make it a better place kind of word.
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Buses – building on a winning formula
- Wellington Scoop
- It is time to remind the citizens of Wellington, and light rail fans like Demetrius Christoforou, that we have an amazingly successful public transport system. Around 17 per cent of the region’s workers travel on buses and trains at peak hours, the highest public transport usage of any city in New Zealand or Australia.
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Travelling to Toast Martinborough?
- Tranz Metro
- Tranz Metro is operating the usual Sunday public timetable for services to and from Toast Martinborough, November 21.
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Dog on a bike
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- Woof!! I am sure it’s done the rounds, but if you’ve not seen it yet, here’s your chance.
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Slip Taking Time To Clear
- Auckland Trains
- It will be Monday before Wellington’s rail services can get back to normal.
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Wgtn Gets Bus Lane Cameras
- Auckland Trains
- Now it’s Wellington motorists’ turn.
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