Transport / June 2015
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Councillor Young vs Skateboards
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- Councillor Nicola Young took another shot at kids skateboarding around Wellington yesterday.
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We have the money – do we have the vision?
- Cycling in Wellington
- Wellington CBD Cycleways – an achievable vision? Following hard on WCC’s approval of the Cycling Framework, and the Island Bay Cycleway, the Government announceed another $296 million to be spent across the country under the Urban Cycleways Programme, bringing the total expenditure, including contributions from the National Land Transport Fund and local government, to $333 million.
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Island Bay, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
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Cycling wins the lottery
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- I’m late, I know.
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Keith Johnson: Lavery and Wade-Brown Toggle the Joystick
- Guardians of the Bays
- An excellent blog from Keith Johnson in which holes are found in assumptions around rates rises.
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Helene Ritchie: Runaway rates for vanity projects (Opinion)
- Guardians of the Bays
- “Wellington City Council’s rates hike at 6.
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Council approves Cycling Framework, Island Bay Cycleway
- Cycling in Wellington
- Wednesday’s Council meeting saw three big wins for cycling – approval for the Cycling Framework, and the go-ahead for the Island Bay Cycleway, the first stage of the southern cycle route from Island Bay to the CBD.
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Island Bay, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
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Help Us Save The New Zealand Transport Agency From Itself
- Save the Basin Reserve!
- In less than four weeks’ time, on Monday 20 July, the New Zealand Transport Agency’s appeal against the Board of Inquiry decision to decline resource consent for a Basin Reserve flyover begins.
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The big meeting: WCC 24 June 2015
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- Big is an understatement.
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Police suggest cyclists get off the road
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- Gregory: This precedent has nasty implications for Wellington’s narrow and hilly areas.
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Painting for pedestrians
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- Lower Cuba Street is a pet peeve of mine.
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Cuba Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Will we ever see integrated ticketing?
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- Travelling around the Wellington region has been hampered by competing operators and modes.
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Traffic congestion: is there a miracle cure? (Hint: it’s not roads)
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- Gregory: Travel demand management techniques often focus on road tolls or parking charges.
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Where exactly is my bus?
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- Greater Wellington rolled out RTI on the bus network back in 2011 and it’s been hobbling along for years.
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European Cyclists’ Federation Supports Save The Basin
- Save the Basin Reserve!
- It isn’t just Wellingtonians, or even New Zealanders, who can see that building a motorway flyover at the Basin Reserve is a very bad idea.
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Sign up for carpooling this week - there's no better time!
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- If you’re keen to save money, be a little kinder to the environment and meet some new people, then carpooling could well be the way to go - and there’s no better time to start carpooling than during Kiwi Carpool Week, June 8 – 14.
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Logging parking complaints
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- Many of my posts start off with a real story, which I try to turn into a lesson or something that can be improved on.
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Cyclists daren’t tread
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- Several weeks ago, I submitted an OIA request to NZTA via fyi.
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