Transport / August 2011
September 2011 | July 2011-
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Bus lanes – buses love ‘em! But they could be better for bikes.
- Cycling in Wellington
- Wellington City Council are currently consulting on their bus priority plan.
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Local insight toward a refined proposal
- Architectural Centre Inc
- So says Rod James, of the 1900 or so submissions received by NZTA on their recently closed public consultation on the preferred options for roading improvements near the Basin Reserve. his exact words are: We are grateful to Wellingtonian’s for taking the time to review our proposals… This will provide us with valuable additional knowledge and local insight to guide us towards a refined proposal.
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Wellington Cable Car Kelburn Upgrade
- Auckland Trains
- Wellington is to get a new Kelburn terminus for its heritage cable car.
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Wellington Cable Car, Salamanca Road, Wellington Central, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6145, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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The Mangapurua Cycle Trail
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- As part of the Mountains to the Sea Cycle Trail the Mangapurua Cycle Trail links the Whanganui River at the Bridge to Nowhere to the Ruatiti, Orautahu, Raetihi part of the World.
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Listen out for Tranz Metro on the radio
- Tranz Metro
- Tranz Metro is now regularly using radio to inform you of planned disruptions and other updates. Tune into the radio to hear which line has off-peak planned disruptions today. We will also be advertising promotions such as Match Day tickets and $2 Days.
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It actually could be worse
- Architectural Centre Inc
- I just discovered this, and thought I’d share it with you all, as it is a topical image for today – the last day of submissions on NZTA’s proposals for transport improvements near the basin Reserve. If I had sighted it earlier I would have used it to threaten those of you who have not yet made submissions in a post entitled “Make your submission to NZTA or else…!”.
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Pedestrians count for nought in Johnsonville
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- This post is inspired by Auckland Transport Blog‘s post Why are we so mean to pedestrians? which asks the question why are pedestrian crossings often missing from traffic light controlled intersections.
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WCC consultation on Courtenay/Kent/Cambridge bus lanes proposal
- Cycling in Wellington
- Wellington City Council would like your views on a proposed traffic resolution to extend the city’s network of bus lanes along Courtenay Place, Kent and Cambridge terraces and Adelaide Road. Bus lanes can be used by cyclists, so have your say at www.wellington.govt.nz/haveyoursay/publicinput/buslanes/2011-08-traffic-buslanes.html Closing date 6 September.
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Delays to train services following Petone vehicle crash
- Wellington District Police
- Police are currently at a motor vehicle crash near Petone where a car has ended up on the railway...
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Petone, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Double Banger
- Eye of the Fish
- Consultation on the NZTA’s solutions for “roading improvements” around the Basin and through to the Airport (the tail end of State Highway 1, if you will), closes today. I’ve been taking a bit of a back seat on this, watching from the sidelines as the alternative proposal put forward by the Architectural Centre “Option X” [...]
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Vote X
- Architectural Centre Inc
- The Friday 26 August deadline for submissions to NZTA regarding the Wellington inner-city transport projects is getting closer. We believe this is an important issue for everyone to give feedback on. Option X will tunnel State Highway One under Memorial Park, providing a space which will respect our war dead, and allow reflection and commemoration.
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Have your say
- Tranz Metro
- Passenger feedback is important to us, that’s why we conduct customer surveys. Our next customer survey is from Saturday 26 August until 1 September.
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It’s not just about transport. It’s about our city and the quality of our environment
- Wellington Scoop
- However you describe it, the 380-metre-long structure that the Transport Agency wants to build from Tory Street to the Mount Victoria Tunnel would change the Wellington cityscape forever, and not for the better. We’ve been wrong to describe it as a flyover. It’s much bigger than that. And the Transport Agency is wrong to describe it as a bridge. In reality it would be an elevated highway – which is an approach to road design from the early 20th Century that’s out of favour in most places.
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Polls apart – the verdict on Option X is all good
- Architectural Centre Inc
- According to Warren Buffet, a public opinion poll is no substitute for thought. Therefore, I think that the results of the Capital Times Reader’s Poll are pretty encouraging for the Architectural Centre’s Option X scheme for the Basin Reserve:
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Make a submission and support Option X
- Save the Basin Reserve!
- Submissions on the Basin Reserve flyover close this Friday 26 August, so make your voice heard today. You can use our submission guide (the link is in the menu to the right), and please support the best urban design outcome for Wellington - Option X. It's the high-quality transport solution that Wellington genuinely needs. read more
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Wellington Embrace Bus Lanes
- Auckland Trains
- Journey time savings of around 14% and reduced variability in service times by about 11minutes during the evening peak are claimed in the key northbound direction since buses returned to Wellington’s Manners St.
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A Punter's Guide to the Roads of National Significance
- Save the Basin Reserve!
- Guide to the RONS: a transport commentator is interviewed by a normal taxpayer who is confused RoNS? That’s the Roads of National Significance if you are Stephen Joyce, but I’ve also heard roads of national silliness from some less enthusiastic punters.
- Accepted from Save the Basin posts
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SMS Delay system technical issues resolved
- Tranz Metro
- The technical issues we were experiencing with our SMS Delay notification have now been resolved.
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National’s White Elephant
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- I should be writing bicycle posts, but I feel like I have to fight a rearguard action against stupidity, so I got out the Microsoft Paint.
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Council votes to consult on bus lanes
- Bryan Pepperell - Back To The Future
- Voting to consult on removing on-street motorcycle parks, car parks and loading zones on KENT TERRACE from MAJORIBANKS STREET TO EDGE HILL to be replaced with a Bus Priority Lane were: Mayor Wade-Brown, Councillors Ngaire Best, Stephanie Cook, Paul Eagle, Andy Foster, Justin Lester, Simon Marsh, Iona Pannett, Helene Ritchie.
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Public meetings over the next week
- Save the Basin Reserve!
- Momentum is growing to see the Architecture Centre's Option X plan adopted instead of the NZ Transport Agency's short-sighted flyovers, and there are a number of public meetings in the coming week to discuss the alternatives: • Newtown Residents’ Association Monday 15 August 7.
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Protecting ourselves from a crazy man
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- How do we tell this man we want cyclepaths and light rail lines instead of the Roads of National’s Stupidity? Thanks to the Dom Post’s cartoon which got it spot-on.
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What we can learn from Catalonia
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- Girona is a small city in northern Catalonia.
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Bus drivers, cyclists swap points of view
- Newswire.co.nz
- CRAIG Bush now knows what it’s like to have a 12-tonne bus bearing down on him on the road. He’s usually the one driving the bus, but in a road-awareness workshop in Kilbirnie he got to swap the safety of his driver’s seat for a cycle saddle. “I am used to having my rear vision mirrors,” he says. “Not being able to see cars until they were right behind me was intimidating.”
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Basin flyover: another week of opposition
- Wellington Scoop
- It’s hard to find anyone who likes the NZ Transport Agency’s plans for a 380-metre-long flyover alongside the Basin Reserve. Starting at the Mt Victoria Tunnel, the structure would carry two lanes of vehicles above Ellice Street and Kent and Cambridge Terraces and discharge them at the Tory Street traffic lights. The flyover would be a dismal eyesore across the cityscape.
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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The Bike Racks of Palmerston North
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- One of these bike racks has landed near the Palmy i-Site.
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Wellington Fare Increases Postponed
- Auckland Trains
- Fare increases proposed for Wellington’s buses and trains, due to take effect from September 1 have been postponed.
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Proposed public transport fare increase postponed
- Tranz Metro
- on 4 August 2011 a media release was issued by the Greater Wellington Regional Council that the proposed public transport fare increase, due to take effect from 1 September, has been postponed.
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Basin flyover: the mayor opposes it, but what about the councillors?
- Wellington Scoop
- As Mayor Celia Wade-Brown continues her opposition to the Basin Reserve flyover, it’s sad that so few Wellington city councillors are showing similar concern. It’s equally lamentable that councillors aren’t protesting at the lack of democracy in the the planning process.
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Riding a Folding Bike in Wellington – prepare to be friendly
- Cycling in Wellington
- If you have been anywhere in the last few months – bar under a rock- you may have heard of the latest phenomenon in Wellington that is folding bikes. And fresh off the back of a Greater Wellington campaign promoting folding bikes for the new Matangi trains, you can only expect to hear more about these little gems of the cycling world.
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Basin flyover: how the Transport Agency wants to make home-owners pay
- Wellington Scoop
- Not only is the Transport Agency planning to demolish around 50 homes, but they’re going to the Environment Court to force local residents to pay for sound-proofing on all other houses up to 100 meters from the new roads.
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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$1m Wellington Transport Study Begins
- Auckland Trains
- A contract has been awarded for the $1m study looking at the future of Wellington’s public transport.
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Union Concern Over Tag Offs
- Auckland Trains
- The Wellington Tramways Union has raised concerns about the “tagging off” requirement of the Snapper/HOP card.
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