Transport / August 2012
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The public have their say, but …
- Wellington Scoop
- On the same day that the government announced plans for record spending on roads, we learnt that 408 people had felt strongly enough to send submissions to the Transport Agency opposing its plans to build a four-lane expressway from Mackays Crossing to Peka Peka. (Surprisingly, 302 people thought the expressway would be a good idea.)
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Improvements in Whanganui’s cycleways
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- I had a revisit to Whanganui.
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Taking the p*ss
- Mt Victoria Residents Association
- There’s been a gradual process of installing bus shelters around Wellington, and a couple have recently made an appearance at the bottom of Elizabeth St – where they’ll no doubt be welcomed by passengers waiting in the wind and the rain.
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Tramping from Levin to Palmerston North
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- If you’ve got a spare 4 days and want a decent enough tramp that isn’t going to kill you, with public transport at both ends, then I’d recommend a walk from Levin to Palmerston North following the route of the Te Araroa Trail.
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Repeat Drunk-Drivers should not be on the road
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- It is with absolute horror that I read today (in the Dom Post) that Kenneth Morgan, a Tawa man with 23 convictions and an “indefinite ban”, has been given his driver’s license back.
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Tawa, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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It’s a pity we live amongst the unimaginative
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- A while ago I wrote a piece called the Heart of the Horowhenua which were some ideas about how I would route cycleways through the district (the Horowhenua district obviously).
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Smarter transport, now on video
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- Generation Zero continues to push the message of smarter transport with this short video. I’m continually impressed with the work they are doing and with their unrelenting energy.
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August inspection pit concrete work
- Rimutaka Incline Railway
- On Saturday morning we placed a further 3.5m3 of concrete into the inspection pit facilities under construction in our rail vehicle shed. This nearly completes the 24-metre long inspection pit wall (just 2m left at the Upper Hutt end) and we now have two of the five upper floor sections poured.Project: Rail vehicle shedRoute: Maymorn20 August 2012
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Rimutaka Incline Railway Heritage Trust, Maymorn, Upper Hutt, Upper Hutt City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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What they’re saying about the flyover (including Fran’s refusal to mention it)
- Wellington Scoop
- The Transport Agency’s stubborn decision to build a concrete bridge on the northern side of the Basin Reserve has brought a mass of criticism from Wellingtonians. Among the few expressions of support, a statement from Regional Council chair Fran Wilde in which she praises the proposal without mentioning the flyover.
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Is it time to dust off Wellington’s 2004 Gehl Report?
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- Is it time to dust off for a reread the Danish firm, Gehl Architects’ 2004 Report for Wellington’s City to Waterfront Study? The NZTA are often accused of sham public consultations and then doing whatever they want, and that may well be the case for what they are now calling The Tunnel to Tunnel Inner City Transport Improvements.
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Could you cycle in Masterton in winter?
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- Could you cycle in this? Could you cycle in a town as fouled as Masteron in winter on a still night? The picture above is from the Wairarapa Mail’s July 2012 story on Masterton smog levels.
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Doing the wrong thing for Wellington: a flyover at the Basin Reserve
- Wellington Scoop
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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The Friendly Cyclist
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- Everyone in NZ, if not the World, has already found out about the fantastic little cycling in Wellington videos at The Friendly Cyclist.
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Memorial Park
- Architectural Centre Inc
- The Prime Minister has announced today that the Memorial Park is to be a Park, and not a motorway. Hooray for common sense, good taste, sensible planning, appropriate responses, and joined up thinking. There has evidently been a fair bit of quiet contemplative thought going on with this proposal, and what seems to have been happening is some good cross-party agreements, that what is best for New Zealand is to have a Memorial Park worthy of its name. No one liked the proposal of a motorway through the park, which is what a five lane highway at ground level would have been – and so good sense has prevailed.
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Buckle Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington Region, 6011, New Zealand
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