Transport / November 2012
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Service Interruption Glossary
- Tranz Metro
- Trains can run late for a number of reasons which are not always apparent to the passengers onboard a train. Some of the more common reasons for delays are signals and points failures, mechanical faults and emergency incidents. The following information outlines what can cause a delay and how it can affect the running of a service.
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A grandstand to stop cricketers seeing cars; for the rest of us, a wall and flyover
- Wellington Scoop
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Talking to the Transport Agency
- Wellington Scoop
- I’ve decided that Transport Agency people should be given more chances to meet the public. And we should get more chances to talk to them, too. I met some of them at their public information day on Saturday. Their cynical process of “public consultation” hasn’t worked. But talking face to face is a different experience. Not, though, on the subject of their Basin flyover proposal, which they have been trained to defend at all costs, and for which they’ve created a new set of drawings such as the one above showing a couple sunbathing under the overhead traffic.
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Where the #$%& are the bike lanes already?
- Eye of the Fish
- We’ve had a bicycle-mad mayor for two years now and I don’t think I’ve seen one new bike lane, or any real indication that the council still even gives two hoots about cyclists and pedestrians. In fact our transport planning has just become, frankly, bizarre. For example our city council, regional council, and NZTA apparatchiks seem to think it’s a suitable use of millions of dollars of public money to tack on a dubious pedestrian-walkway-cum-cycleway to the Basin Reserve flyover, so that we can walk and cycle from the tunnel to the bypass. You know, because there’s such a huge amount of people walking and cycling around the city rather than to the city. It’s a route that is barely used for obvious reasons and will remain that way, even if they do actually fix the cycleway so that it is a proper cycleway and not just some bike-shaped-stencils painted onto a sidewalk*.
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Track work - 24 November
- Rimutaka Incline Railway
- Good progress had on Saturday with our current challenge - to connect up our mainline with the rail vehicle shed yard at Maymorn.
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Rimutaka Incline Railway Heritage Trust, Maymorn, Upper Hutt, Upper Hutt City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Redefining the flyover – “a slimline elevated street”
- Wellington Scoop
- What do you do if you’re under attack? You call in a public relations company. And that’s what the Transport Agency seems to have done, as opponents of its Basin flyover start gearing up their campaign. Evidence of PR expenditure is on display in the compliant, supportive DomPost this morning. On the op-ed page, Jenny Chetwynd attempts to redefine the concrete flyover. She has accepted PR advice that it should be referred to as a “slimline sweeping elevated street.”
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Please ride with bricks in your panniers
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- As someone who rides an electric bike it is amazing that I am sometimes exposed to a strange mixture of hostility and snobbery that cycling purists, who’ve never ever ridden an electric bike, will generously offer me.
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Wellington transport video
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- STL Transit has turned their attention to Welly, from the first bus from Upper Hutt to the last bus going back to Eastbourne. You can even see the Seatoun Ferry if you don’t blink.
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Eastbourne, Lower Hutt, Lower Hutt City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
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Congratulations to the Regional Council: a Basin solution without a flyover
- Wellington Scoop
- Congratulations to the Regional Council on the vote last week to revisit Option X. The Architectural Centre’s design beats the Transport Agency’s by integrating needs – it’s more sophisticated than just another stretch of State Highway 1. In 2009, the Civic Trust ran a public seminar about the Basin Reserve area to a packed house. Clearly it showed a successful solution would need to balance the interests of residents, motorists, passengers, pedestrians, and children. This has shaped our flyover response: the flyover doesn’t achieve grade separation from local traffic, and it doesn’t fit its surroundings (SH2 Dowse shows NZTA’s style). There are better ways of improving transport.
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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A walk for deaf botanists
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- On a train ride home I read over someone’s shoulder an article in the NZ Geographic magazine which detailed that a part of the Paekakariki Escarpment walk had been opened, so I got off my bum on another trip home and had a look.
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A second alternative to the flyover, and a change of heart by the Regional Council
- Wellington Scoop
- The game is changing for the debate about a flyover at the Basin Reserve. Not only because of the unexpected decision by the Regional Council to reconsider its controversial support of the flyover. But also because of the news that another professionally-designed plan exists to solve traffic problems without the need for a 380-metre long bridge.
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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A new piece of cycleway in Levin
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- It’s been a little while since I’ve got up Levin way on my bicycle, but I was delighted to find a nice new bit of shared cycleway/footpath on Queen Street East, built to a high standard with a very rideable fine gravel surface.
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How to do things right, Vancouver style
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- I’m linking some recent posts by others to express an idea.
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Frequent Airport Flyer
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- I first noticed the news of the changes to the Airport Flyer in an article that appeared in the DomPost.
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Wellington International Airport, Coutts Street, Rongotai, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6023, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Signals Fault affecting Wellington Rail Network
- Tranz Metro
- On Friday November 2, 2012 the Wellington Rail Network was affected by a signals fault which delayed all services for some time.
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