Transport / July 2011
August 2011 | June 2011-
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Replacement Parts For Matangi
- Auckland Trains
- KiwiRail reports that replacement auxiliary power units are being freighted to Wellington to overcome the fault which led to new Matangi Metro passenger units being briefly withdrawn from service.
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Transmission Gully: not a done deal
- Wellington Scoop
- Accepted from Wellington Scoop features
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Transmission Gully Motorway, Kenepuru, Porirua, Porirua City, Wellington, 5022, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Why has the Basin Reserve Trust failed to do its job?
- Save the Basin Reserve!
- In today's editorial, The Wellingtonian editor Joseph Romanos inaccurately and unfairly characterizes the Save The Basin Reserve Campaign as anti-roading: "But instead of fronting a politically suicidal campaign called Ban Cars, they chose the more emotive Save the Basin, their logic being that a major road linking Buckle St to the Mt Victoria Tunnel would have a detrimental impact on the sportsmen doing their thing at the Basin. The news that the Basin Reserve trustees had negotiated for a grandstand to be built at the northern end of the ground leaves these campaigners in a quandary. Romanos may be using the inflammatory language and approach of tabloid journalism - trying to report the conflict rather than the issue - but he does raise a key question: why has the Basin Reserve Trust failed to to its job?
- Accepted from Save the Basin posts
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Price Hike For RWC
- Auckland Trains
- Taking long distance trains to the RWC is not going to be cheap.
- Accepted from Auckland Trains » Wellington
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The war memorial motorway
- Wellington Scoop
- Everyone supported the concept of lowering State Highway One into a cut-and-covered tunnel under Buckle Street. The alternative – to have a main road running through the National War Memorial Park – was stupid. No one liked the stupid idea except the NZ Transport Agency. And the Agency intends to overrule the wishes of Wellingtonians. Its decision: “Buckle Street will remain at street level.”
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Yesterday’s Solution
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- In 2011, you would think two considerations would be central to transport planning; the need to reduce carbon emissions and dependence on oil. Think again… The New Zealand Transport Agency has released for consultation its scheme for the inner city section (Cobham Drive to Buckle St) of its grand Levin to Wellington Airport superhighway. What the scheme amounts to is a road building extravaganza that reeks of the 1960s and 1970s. The salient point about NZTA’s consultation is that it offers no choice. The key projects including a flyover at the Basin Reserve and a second Mt Victoria Tunnel are a fait accompli. So the public is not given any meaningful options, such as the public transport alternative.
- Accepted from Sustainable Wellington Transport posts
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Basin flyover: it’s official – there’ll be noise and visual problems
- Wellington Scoop
- The NZ Transport Agency has confirmed that its flyover alongside the Basin Reserve will result in “visual and noise effects.” The coy words are from the Agency’s Wellington highways manager. But he’s concerned only with minimising these problems for the cricket ground. There’s no concern that the same problems will affect the wider community.
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Memorial Car Park
- Architectural Centre Inc
- Since the unveiling of the NZTA schemes for around the Basin now almost a month ago, we have been having a good look at their back issues – the NZTA publications that they have been storing up away from prying eyes. Now, however, a good number of them have been published and are available on line. One of the more interesting things unveiled, is the plan of the work for the Memorial Park.
- Accepted from Architecture Centre news
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Great weather for flying !
- Wellington Aero Club
- With the wet southerly, this weekend is a bit of a washout. However last weekend we had great weather for flying. Below is a photo taken downwind, right hand, for runway 34 in the clubs CJ6 Nanchang ZK-MAO. If you are a weekend pilot then make sure you get your bookings in for next weekend now, as the long range forecast is looking much better.
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Option X: FAQs
- Architectural Centre Inc
- Thanks again for all your questions. We’ll up date this page to address questions as they come in, and supply new drawings etc. to explain things as needed. Here’s an initial batch of questions and answers to start with.
- Submitted by tonytw1
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Matangi’s Slow Rollout
- Auckland Trains
- By the end of this week 40% of the new Matangi fleet will have arrived in Wellington. The rollout of the Wellington trains is still a very long drawn out affair. They are operating on the Hutt line at peak times. 15 2-car units are in Wellington. Of those, 9 2-car units are in service. The rest are being used for training. 3 more 2-car units are about to arrive by ship.
- Submitted by tonytw1
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Would you like Grandstands with that?
- Eye of the Fish
- While the NZTA are serving up orders of Big Mac and Fries with a bit of extra Grandstand on the side, I thought we might just have a quick look at whether they are serving up a just dessert. Now, call me a cynical old fish, but I think that graphic (please note: Not supplied [...]
- Accepted from Eye of the Fish feed
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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It’s just not cricket
- Architectural Centre Inc
- Being keen on cricket I was shocked and amazed to see the article in this morning’s DomPost featuring, if the story is correct, a piece of horse-trading going on between the NZTA and the Basin Reserve Trust. The story raises a number of rather obvious, questions:
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Grandstanding
- Eye of the Fish
- We’d heard rumours at the Fish HQ of a proposed sweetener deal of a Grandstand, but have been caught off the hop by this – I didn’t think it was going to surface just yet. It is a curious proposal – and all seems rather Fishy to me. In a country notorious for its distain for, and freedom from corruption, is this the first openly blatant case of bribery on a large scale?
- Submitted by tonytw1
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Option X: plus
- Architectural Centre Inc
- Thanks for all the comments so far. Here are a couple more images which might answer some questions and may create some more. The first image is looking from the North-east side towards the Carillon, which shows conceptually how the levels work.
- Accepted from Architecture Centre news
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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$11.5 million to buy votes around the council table
- Save the Basin Reserve!
- The Dominion Post is reporting that a deal has been reached between the NZ Transport Agency and the Basin Reserve Trust to construct a new stand at the Basin Reserve - with the explicit intention of hiding the ugly flyover only 20 metres from the boundary fence.
- Accepted from Save the Basin posts
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Basin flyover: how selfish can they get?
- Wellington Scoop
- Accepted from Wellington Scoop features
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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The Public needs a real choice: Option X
- Architectural Centre Inc
- The NZTA have proposed options for redeveloping the roading of the Basin Reserve. But these are not really options. They are two schemes for flyovers which have very little difference. We believe that the scheme/s proposed by NZTA exclude the public from making a real choice.
- Accepted from Architecture Centre news
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Trial of Electronic Bus Replacement Signs
- Tranz Metro
- Tranz Metro is trialing electronic bus replacement signs at Paraparaumu and Plimmerton stations. The electronic sign will be switched on when buses are replacing trains at a station. We are interested to hear your feedback on the new signs.
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Option X
- Save the Basin Reserve!
- The Architecture Centre has launched the real alternative to the NZ Transport Agency's disastrous plans for the Basin Reserve - Option X.
- Accepted from Save the Basin posts
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$2 Day
- Tranz Metro
- It’s not every day you can ride the train for $2, but everyone can on Thursday, July 28 between 9am and 3pm. Get out of the house and go anywhere on the Hutt Valley, Kapiti, and Johnsonville Lines.
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Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Basin flyover: Architectural Centre calls for new option to give a real choice
- Wellington Scoop
- Accepted from Wellington Scoop features
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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What traffic growth?
- Save the Basin Reserve!
- The NZ Transport Agency says that we need an ugly, intrusive flyover at the Basin Reserve because the traffic congestion is choking the city, and it's necessary to have faster-moving traffic on State Highway 1.
- Accepted from Save the Basin posts
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A Viable Arch Centre Alternative?
- Eye of the Fish
- We’re part of the way through the public “consultation” phase of the NZTA schemes for “improvements” around the Basin Reserve, and so far we’ve only heard one side of the story. For whatever reasons, political, Machiavellian, or incompetence, only the “two options” have been proffered to the public by the roading lobby. That’s a real [...]
- Submitted by tonytw1
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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The Public needs a real choice: Option X
- Architectural Centre Inc
- The NZTA have proposed options for redeveloping the roading of the Basin Reserve. But these are not really options. They are two schemes for flyovers which have very little difference. We believe that the scheme/s proposed by NZTA exclude the public from making a real choice. Currently the Basin is a mess. From a multi-modal perspective (pedestrian, [...]
- Submitted by tonytw1
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Nice Idea But Doesn’t Fly
- Auckland Trains
- An intriguing public transport experiment in Wellington sounded as if it might work but isn’t going well.
- Submitted by tonytw1
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Does the NZTA scheme measure up?
- Architectural Centre Inc
- We’ve already begun discussing issues relevant to the Basin, particularly through blog posts … but this time we’re going back to basics. Core objects of our constitution include: 1. To work for the general improvement of the urban environment. 2. To promote a true understanding of Architecture and Design amongst the community. 3. To consider, critique and recommend changes of law and administration relating to or affecting architecture and urban planning.
- Submitted by tonytw1
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Te Tai Poutini polytech finds new funding stream
- Save the Basin Reserve!
- Te Tai Poutini Polytechnic is receiving an additional $750 million funding from Minister Steven Joyce after changing its name to the South Western Motorway.
- Accepted from Save the Basin posts
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Vote no for both flyover options
- Wellington Scoop
- One week of the eight-week consultation period is already over – leaving less than seven weeks to tell the Transport Agency what we think of their flyovers and their other roading plans. The best suggestion so far has come from Maximus on Eye of the Fish, who recommends that everyone sends a submission saying: I vote for neither of the two options presented. I demand to see a full and fair evaluation of all the other schemes that you have had for the last 2-3 years.
- Accepted from Wellington Scoop features
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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What About Light Rail?
- Architectural Centre Inc
- I lived in Szczecin, Poland, until I was 14. I had family in other large centers in Poland. All those cities had something in common—extensive and very well utilised light rail networks. The trams were a different colour in each city, usually coincident with the colours of the city’s coat of arms. Even at the lowest pointduring the communist regime when the people were at their poorest and the country was in a huge debt the trams were going strong, taking commuters to work, home, school, parks, shopping (when there was something to buy, anything really would do). I certainly don’t remember anyone not being able to afford to use the tram service.
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- basin-reserve-flyover
Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Boulevards
- Eye of the Fish
- After a couple of posts looking at the proposed concretisation of the car’s dominance over nature, with a 6 lane highway racing through Haitaitai and an overpass through / over / around the Basin Reserve, all courtesy of the NZTA, perhaps it is time to look at somebody else’s vision for the streets of Wellington. Why don’t we have a look at this image, number 3 in the series, on Boulevards.
- Submitted by tonytw1
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- second-mount-victoria-tunnel
Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Wellington Station Upgrade: Men's Facilities temporarily closed
- Tranz Metro
- KiwiRail is upgrading the Wellington Station facilities over the next 2 months. As a result the men's facilities will be closed from 11 July - 31 July. Temporary facilities are available on Platform 9.
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Basin Checklist
- Architectural Centre Inc
- We’re keen to evaluate the Basin Reserve, and have produced a Check List of items that we believe it needs to be evaluated against – as should any other possible Basin scheme as well. We’ll be posting a critique of the official NZTA proposals next week – but first, without further ado, here are the issues that we think are the key points that any proposal really needs to address.
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Our billboard is now up at the Basin Reserve!
- Save the Basin Reserve!
- Located behind the RA Vance stand. read more
- Accepted from Save the Basin posts
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Other side of the Mountain
- Eye of the Fish
- Following on from the previous post about the goings on around the Basin, we’re pleased to bring to you some of the plans for the other side of Mt Vic – the flip side of the coin, if you will.
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Hataitai, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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79% opposition to the flyover - and a news roundup
- Save the Basin Reserve!
- An eagle-eyed contributor made mention of the fact that some 79% of submissions made on the Ngauranga to Airport Corridor Plan back in 2008 were against a flyover at the Basin Reserve.
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Traffic Congestion, Part 2: To build or not to build…
- Architectural Centre Inc
- Apparently that isn’t the question – according to our NZTA experts, yet I can’t help but wonder why the latter option (not to build), hasn’t been a part of NZTA investigations. Perhasp the RoNS steamroller is concerned more about ‘road’s than ‘transport’? Certainly it is easier to point to the achievement of four lanes from Levin to [...]
- Submitted by tonytw1
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Ruahine Street: another Karo Drive debacle in the making
- Save the Basin Reserve!
- The Dominion Post is busy engaging in some 1960's era civic boosterism in today's editorial, talking up all the alleged benefits of the NZ Transport Agency's roading projects and hoping - hoping! - that the flyover, tunnels and road widenings won't take as long to construct as the much-derided Inner City Bypass.
- Accepted from Save the Basin posts
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Consultation begins, but no options other than flyovers
- Save the Basin Reserve!
- The NZ Transport Agency has begun their consultation on the Basin Reserve flyover with a PR assault designed to convince Wellingtonians that it's the only possible choice.
- Accepted from Save the Basin posts
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