Transport / March 2013
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Flyover for Lambton Quay
- Eye of the Fish
- In a surprising piece of breaking news today, we have just heard that the results of the Wellington Public Transport Spine study have been announced, and the end result will no doubt surprise some people. In line with Wellington City Council’s new found love for Flyovers, as approved by Councilor Andy Foster at a recent [...]
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Lambton Quay, Wellington Central, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand/Aotearoa
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Three lanes into two for the new Buckle Street tunnel
- Wellington Scoop
- Most Wellingtonians rightly believe that the Basin Reserve flyover will be a very expensive eyesore. Some have accepted it with the idea that it will improve traffic flows. But after a careful examination of the Transport Agency’s working plans, it seems obvious that the flyover will not improve overall traffic flows, but will more likely make rush hour traffic worse and cause more accidents.
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Buckle Street, Mt. Victoria, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand/Aotearoa
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Basin Reserve Update – 21st March 2013
- Keith Johnson
- FROM 'A' TO 'X' VIA 'RR' AND BACKI went along to the Strategy and Policy Meeting of Wellington City Council today, as I have an interest in the integrity of its Assessment of Alternative Options for Transport Improvements at Wellington’s Basin Reserve.
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Flyover vote
- Eye of the Fish
- Later today the Council will vote on their support of the flyover. Related to this, an interesting tidbit came out yesterday and almost slipped me by: “Steps to move state highway traffic off Vivian St are among measures needed to ease the impact of a Basin Reserve flyover, Wellington City Council says.” Holy-moly. That’s new. Up until now some Councilors have been willing to admit privately that the way the Ngauranga to Airport “strategy” completely ignores Vivien Street is absurd. But the Council in an official capacity has, as far as I know, never said anything to this effect before.
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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“I disagree with a flyover … increasing capacity at the Basin won’t help”
- Wellington Scoop
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Response to WCC evaluation
- Architectural Centre Inc
- The WCC has issued a report which evaluates Alternatives to the NZTA’s proposal for a flyover at the Basin. Download a PDF to read our response to the WCC report. Arch-Centre_Response to WCC report
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Is the Environment Minister smarter than the average bear?
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- Is the recently rehabilitated, formerly disgraced, Environment Minister, Nick Smith, smarter than the average bear when it comes to making the right decisions about not messing up Fiordland with crazy Disneyfication get rich quick schemes? We think the best way to help him come to the right decision is set him in down in front on a kids’ film, the filmed in New Zealand, Yogi Bear.
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Thursday’s flyover vote: the best interests of the coolest little capital
- Wellington Scoop
- I’ve been told that a couple of the Wellington city councillors who opposed the flyover in December may be thinking of switching sides. We won’t know till Thursday’s meeting. But it would be a negative result for the city if any of the eight are giving up.
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Is the Conservation Minister smarter than the average bear?
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- Is the recently rehabilitated, formerly disgraced, Conservation Minister, Nick Smith, smarter than the average bear when it comes to making the right decisions about not messing up Fiordland with crazy Disneyfication get rich quick schemes? We think the best way to help him come to the right decision is set him in down in front on a kids’ film, the filmed in New Zealand, Yogi Bear.
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Fran versus Celia: flyover tactics, closed minds, and a super bureaucracy
- Wellington Scoop
- The Transport Agency’s no-choice tactics to promote a Basin Reserve flyover have evidently appealed to Fran Wilde and her supporters on the regional council’s local-government-reform working party. The working party has come up with two options for local government reform – and they’re both for a super city. They’re no-choice options.
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Macau Chic
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- Just back from presumably sunny Macau (presumably sunny because the sun, if it was there, was hidden behind the pollution haze for my whole trip).
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Richard Reid fights back – fundamental flaws in the council’s flyover report
- Wellington Scoop
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Tranz Metro on-line services
- Tranz Metro
- We are making some changes to our on-line services to improve the quality and timeliness of sharing information with you.
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Mitigation
- Architectural Centre Inc
- In the case of the Basin Reserve flyover, the Wellington City Council has asked for further “mitigation” of the proposed Flyover (concrete bridge / Option A). For its part, NZTA has also promised some “mitigation” of the effects of the flyover, and says that they will focus on “mitigation” to ensure that the flyover is “integrated”. Trouble is, I’m not really sure that they are talking about the same thing.
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Unaffordable? Yeah, right
- Wellington Scoop
- The Transport Agency and the like-minded analysts at the city council are telling us that anything other than a flyover is unaffordable at the Basin Reserve. Which is a reminder that the Agency insisted for years it couldn’t afford to put State Highway 1 into a tunnel under the National War Memorial Park. Then came a political decision, instructing the agency to move the highway underground. What had been unaffordable became affordable, in a flash.
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Concrete jungle … naked concrete flyover
- Wellington Scoop
- On the same day that an overseas expert condemned Auckland for building a “concrete jungle” in its CBD, the Wellington City Council was told that it couldn’t do anything to stop the Transport Agency building a “naked concrete” flyover across a historic part of the city.
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Wairarapa carriages affected by wheel damage now back in service
- Tranz Metro
- Earlier this week two Wairarapa carriages were withdrawn from service due to wheel damage. The wheel damage has now been repaired and the carriages are back in service as of Friday, March 1, 2013.
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