Transport / September 2012
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Councillor Ponter (GW) newsletter
- Newtown Residents' Association
- September newsletter from Greater Wellington Regional Councillor Daran Ponter. Includes updates on Bus Service Review and Increases in BusFares. D Ponter September 2012 Newsletter
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Fire Evacuation Drill at Wellington Railway Station
- Tranz Metro
- At 6am this morning (Thursday 27 September 2012), KiwiRail conducted a Fire Evacuation drill at Wellington station, to prepare staff and passengers for an emergency situation.
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Station abbreviations
- Tranz Metro
- If you subscribe to our customer alert sytem you will see that we need to abbreviate station names in our texts and tweets.
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Option X now $10m cheaper than a flyover for 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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Tunnel 1 Upgrade Work
- Tranz Metro
- Tunnel 1 is the first tunnel encountered by trains on the Kapiti line leaving Wellington. It runs between the Hutt Road over bridge and the Ngauranga Gorge road over bridge and is just over 1.2 kilometres long.
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With the tunnel, Basin flyover is nonsensical, a sad mistake
- Wellington Scoop
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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This one’s doing the rounds
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- Whilst Kiwi motorists are getting excited because the fluctuations in the Kiwi peso mean that petrol has dropped 2 centavos at the pump today it’s time to get a reality update: No it’s not real, it’s been Gimped.
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Capital Connection 18-19 September 2012
- Tranz Metro
- Due to a mechanical issue the evening Capital Connection service on Tuesday 18 September, and the morning service on Wednesday 19 September will be replaced by buses.
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NZTA Response to OIA on Basin Reserve Options Consultation
- Newtown Residents' Association
- Read it here. Basin Submissions OIA Breathtakingly uninformative!!
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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The missing pedestrian crossings of Wellington
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- These are three traffic light controlled intersections in Wellington where I’ve been walking and where there isn’t a provision for a pedestrian crossing for the corner where I’ve been to the corner I wanted to go.
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Without a new stand, the Basin Reserve Trust is opposing the 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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Where’s the new tunnel going?
- Mt Victoria Residents Association
- There’s been a bit of speculation over at Eye of the Fish about the location of the second Mt Victoria tunnel that the NZ Transport Agency – against all logic and economic rationality – wants to drive through our neighbourhood.
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Paterson Street, Mt. Victoria, Wellington, Wellington Region, 6021, New Zealand
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How to wrap a child or an adult in cotton wool
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- Yes it is true that the cotton price is currently dropping, but it is still so expensive to wrap a child in cotton wool.
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The Fliz
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- We do like a bit of lateral thinking around bicycle design, and we do like this from Germany. The Fliz It is the Fliz. There’s more about it on the Daily Mail. You also might like my posts about prone bikes, shweebs and rail cycles, and sail carts.
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When does street art encourage walking?
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- “Placemaking” is the term now commonly used to describe making the public spaces between buildings attractive.
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Flyover? What flyover?
- 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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