Transport / August 2013
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Island Bay cycle routes
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- The good news is that Wellington City Council is consulting on a preferred safe cycle route between the city and Island Bay. Cycling Aware Wellington organised a successful public meeting to garner local support and got quite a turnout. To get a good feel for the ride between the Island Bay and town have a […]
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Island Bay, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
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Island Bay cycle routes
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- The good news is that Wellington City Council is consulting on a preferred safe cycle route between the city and Island Bay. Cycling Aware Wellington organised a successful public meeting to garner local support and got quite a turnout. To get a good feel for the ride between the Island Bay and town have a […]
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Island Bay, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
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All Your Save The Basin Submission Resources In One Place
- Save the Basin Reserve!
- With less than a week till the deadline of 5pm on 6 September 2013 to make a submission on the …Continue reading »
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A message from Zane Fulljames
- Go Wellington
- It is important to reassure you that we take the safety of our customers and staff seriously. Accordingly I thought it might be helpful if I told you what happened, why it happened but most importantly what we are doing about it.
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Unleashing pent up demand for cycling by building separated cycle lanes
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- Here’s an infographic from Momentum Mag of how building separated cycle lanes in certain North American cities has unleashed pent up demand for cycling along those routes. Building quality cycle infrastructure seems to get bums on bike seats, which means less bums on car seats. They improve cyclist safety and reduce congestion. Smart cities build […]
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Unleashing pent up demand for cycling by building separated cycle lanes
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- Here’s an infographic from Momentum Mag of how building separated cycle lanes in certain North American cities has unleashed pent up demand for cycling along those routes. Building quality cycle infrastructure seems to get bums on bike seats, which means less bums on car seats. They improve cyclist safety and reduce congestion. Smart cities build […]
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Christchurch’s Cycle Design Guidelines
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- If you’ve not seen the Christchurch City Council’s Cycle Design Guidelines yet they make for some very interesting reading. It gives hope that we are going to end up with quality, safe cycle infrastructure in New Zealand cities. Now central government should come to the party, wind back the wasteful spending on its RoNS monstrosities […]
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Christchurch’s Cycle Design Guidelines
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- If you’ve not seen the Christchurch City Council’s Cycle Design Guidelines yet they make for some very interesting reading. It gives hope that we are going to end up with quality, safe cycle infrastructure in New Zealand cities. Now central government should come to the party, wind back the wasteful spending on its RoNS monstrosities […]
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San Francisco and Bay cities now have bikeshare
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- Of interest is that the Bay Area Bike Share scheme has started up this month in San Francisco plus some surrounding cities like Palo Alto and San Jose. They’re using Bixi bikes. Bixi is now known as the Public Bike System Company. In Wellington bike share coupled with greenlaning some separated cycle lanes through the […]
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San Francisco and Bay cities now have bikeshare
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- Of interest is that the Bay Area Bike Share scheme has started up this month in San Francisco plus some surrounding cities like Palo Alto and San Jose. They’re using Bixi bikes. Bixi is now known as the Public Bike System Company. In Wellington bike share coupled with greenlaning some separated cycle lanes through the […]
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There just aren’t enough bicycle lockers in Wellington
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- You may be familiar with the style of bike locker that is used across the Wellington rail system. They are double ended, with a plywood divider diagonally across each block, hence what looks like 6 lockers can actually store 12 bikes. You can apply to hire one on a long term basis and here is […]
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There just aren’t enough bicycle lockers in Wellington
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- You may be familiar with the style of bike locker that is used across the Wellington rail system. They are double ended, with a plywood divider diagonally across each block, hence what looks like 6 lockers can actually store 12 bikes. You can apply to hire one on a long term basis and here is […]
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Why add lanes to Cobham Drive?
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- Anyone else think 6 lanes for cars on Cobham Drive is just overkill? There’s not that much stuff over on the Miramar Peninsula, and it’s not like people are missing planes at Welly airport because of heavy congestion. Is 6 lanes on an arterial road that is perfectly fine at 4 lanes indicative of […]
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Miramar, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Why add lanes to Cobham Drive?
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- Anyone else think 6 lanes for cars on Cobham Drive is just overkill? There’s not that much stuff over on the Miramar Peninsula, and it’s not like people are missing planes at Welly airport because of heavy congestion. Is 6 lanes on an arterial road that is perfectly fine at 4 lanes indicative of […]
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Miramar, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Alexandra Road as a commuter bicycle route
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- The earthquake of Friday before last held some interesting lessons.
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Submission Guide: Proposed Basin Bridge (Flyover)
- Save the Basin Reserve!
- Note: For formal purposes , the flyover proposal is called the “Basin Bridge Proposal”.
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The Houghton Bay shortcut
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- Today I rode my bike up Mt Albert Road and turned down Southgate Road and saw the Southern Walkway descend down the hill and thought it is a nice short cut down to Houghton Bay.
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Divided over the flyover
- Wellington Scoop
- The city council has voted in favour of a flyover at the Basin Reserve, in spite of the fact that the city continues to be deeply divided over the issue. The vote, by 7 to 6, is a disappointment for Mayor Celia Wade-Brown, who has argued against the flyover since she successfully campaigned for the mayoralty against the pro-flyover mayor Kerry Prendergast. It was a narrow win, and for a while the new council had a one-vote majority against the flyover. But then Andy Foster changed sides.
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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They didn’t like it but they voted yes
- Wellington Scoop
- I wish I’d been at yesterday’s Regional Council meeting. I would like to have heard more about why two regional councillors voted to support the Basin Reserve flyover after explaining why they didn’t like it. The DomPost reports from the meeting about the reluctant “yes” votes from Judith Aitken and Chris Laidlaw.
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Replacing green space with green space
- Wellington Scoop
- You can’t help agreeing with Helene Ritchie. After reading a Wellington City Council document showing plans to create green space in the middle of Kent and Cambridge Terraces, she pointed out correctly that there’s already green space in this area.
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Get hitched
- WCC Watch
- Freshly minted Northern Ward candidate Jacob Toner wants to foster resilient communities to make sure Wellington is ready for many risks it faces by introducing Hutt Valley inspired ‘Hitching Posts’ around the city.
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Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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This Sunday, 2pm: Save the Basin Workshop on Basin Flyover Submissions
- Save the Basin Reserve!
- In recent posts we have highlighted the importance of campaign supporters making their own voices heard in the upcoming Board of Inquiry.
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Impossible dreams
- Wellington Scoop
- The news that Wellington Airport wants $200million of public money to pay for most of the cost of extending its runway seems to have relegated the proposal to the list of the city’s impossible dreams.
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Services have resumed this morning, Saturday 17 August.
- Tranz Metro
- Following the earthquakes yesterday, network inspections have been completed.
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All Tranz Metro services suspended until further notice
- Tranz Metro
- Due to an earthquake, ALL services are suspended. Network inspections are necessary prior to resuming services. This could take several hours.
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Save the Basin Flyover Presentation – Full Of Good Submission Ideas
- Save the Basin Reserve!
- The closing date for submissions on the proposed Basin flyover is 5pm on Friday 6 September.
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Inevitable? Why one Basin flyover will be followed by a second Basin flyover
- Wellington Scoop
- The NZ Transport Agency should come clean on its flyover plans. Our practice believes that one flyover will pave the way for a second. The Agency’s proposed options for mitigation of the flyover, which it has developed in agreement with the Wellington City Council, include a “commitment to consolidate state highway traffic away from Vivian Street and into a single east-west corridor.”
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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The two-faced flyover
- Wellington Scoop
- The flyover at the Basin Reserve will have two faces. The Basin Reserve face is too terrible to seen by cricketers, so it will be hidden by a new $12million building paid from roading funds. The other face won’t be hidden from anyone. Its ugliness will be seen by everyone else in the city, 24 hours a day, till the flyover is eventually demolished.
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Minor timetable changes to Hutt Valley and Kapiti Line
- Tranz Metro
- From Monday 12 August 2013 timetables for two Upper Hutt train services and one Waikanae service are changing slightly.
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Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Living in fear of a car parking fine
- Sarah Free
- Many have commented recently on the issue of over-zealous car parking wardens in the city, and some have stated a desire to see parking enforcement (and even parking buildings themselves!) bought back under direct Council control.
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Featherston St bike lanes
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- There is a need for a safe CBD cycle route south from the railway station that is faster than the waterfront.
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Featherston Street, Wellington Central, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand/Aotearoa
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Basin Flyover Submission Process
- Save the Basin Reserve!
- The submission process for NZTA’s proposed Basin Reserve flyover has now been announced.
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Blown away by the flyover
- Wellington Scoop
- There’s a new addition to the list of bad things about the flyover that the Transport Agency wants to build alongside the Basin Reserve – motorbikes or light trucks could be blown over in strong winds while they’re on it, and there’ll be problems for pedestrians too.
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Dominion Post Puts The Wind Up NZTA’s Flyover Plans
- Save the Basin Reserve!
- In a front-page story today the Dominion Post raised serious questions about the safety of the proposed Basin Reserve flyover in strong wind conditions.
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Is this the world’s best set of bike lanes – Indianapolis
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- Have a look at this movie from Streetfilms about Indianapolis’s new Cultural Trail. Wellington needs to do it too.
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The runway extension, petrol tankers, and Evans Bay’s unique marine life
- Wellington Scoop
- Plans to extend the runway at the northern end of Wellington Airport involve a tunnel under the extension – with consequences that the City Council and the Regional Council have not yet taken into account. It’s against the law for fuel tankers to travel through tunnels, and there’s already a tunnel at the southern end of the runway.
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Wellington Telematics
- Go Wellington
- Wellington bus users will enjoy smoother, safer public transport services and reduced fuel emissions as a result of NZ Bus’ $3 million investment in driver training and new telematics technology, which is to be installed across its GO Wellington and Valley Flyer fleets.
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Workshop build advances
- Rimutaka Incline Railway
- <!-- da2a.script_load(); //--> Another milestone was reached on Friday 2 August with a third portal frame lifted into position for our workshop extension. Two portal frames arrived by truck, fresh from blasting and priming at Steam and Sand Porirua, and welding at MJH Engineering. Fabrication of the steel beams and components had earlier been completed by trust members.
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Rimutaka Incline Railway Heritage Trust, Maymorn, Upper Hutt, Upper Hutt City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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What if Wellington had bike share that matched Brisbane’s in scope?
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- It’s 3 years since I rode on the Brisbane bike share scheme.
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Another plan for avoiding 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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“Helpful” Government Gives Our Public Meeting On Saturday 3 August A Publicity Boost
- Save the Basin Reserve!
- Want a good reason to attend the Save the Basin Public Meeting at St Joseph’s Church, cnr Brougham and Paterson Sts, Mt Victoria, from 4-5pm tomorrow, Saturday 3 August? Well, if our original invitation wasn’t enough, now you have a new reason: The Government has just announced that the resource consent hearing will be before an EPA Board of Inquiry hearing rather than before the Environment Court, as Wellington City Council had recommended. You can read the Minister’s announcement, and find out the names of those she has appointed to the Board of Inquiry, on Wellington Scoop. We’d rather the Minister had taken a few more months – or years – to make her decision, but now we know exactly what we’re up against. We were already going to tell you about NZTA’s flawed and sloppy flyover proposal, and what it means for you. Now we can also tell you with more confidence what the submission process will be, and how you can tell the Board, the Government, opposition political parties and the world at large that we do not want this ugly, outdated and unnecessary concrete monstrosity within a bull’s roar of the historic Basin Reserve.
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The ELF – a cheaper, but not quite perfect velomobile
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- The ELF is an interesting little electric assisted pedal trike.
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