Transport / March 2015
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Events: Planning to Fail
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- Dave Armstrong has an opinion piece about transit at events in the DomPost stemming from the quarter-final match between New Zealand and the West Indies on March 21st.
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Bus safety and incident reporting
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- The bus network in Wellington is a multi-headed beast.
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Updated terms of carriage for Metlink services
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- At the 25 March 2015 Strategy and Policy meeting, Greater Wellington adopted a new policy for carriage of children in prams and for foot scooters.
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Wellington City Council’s Basin Reserve Masterplan and Greater Wellington’s Climate Change Strategy
- Save the Basin Reserve!
- Wellington City Council’s Basin Reserve Masterplan Wellington City Council is finally developing a Basin Reserve Masterplan.
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Bike bits
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- A few cycle issues crossed my radar over the course of the day, so I’ll bundle them up into a quick post.
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Senior NZTA staff hiding conflict of interest? Not cricket if it is
- Save Takapu Valley
- Are Senior Staff of NZTA writing Letters to Editors and not declaring conflicts, or providing transparency, or worse – passing themselves off as the public to deceive? Surely there are rules about this? A very knowledgeable Murray Carpenter wrote this letter to the Indepentent Herald this week: Is he the same Murray Carpenter, senior Engineer… Read More
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Takapu Valley, Wellington City, Wellington, 5028, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Senior NZTA staff hiding conflict of interest? Not cricket if it is
- Save Takapu Valley
- Are Senior Staff of NZTA writing Letters to Editors and not declaring conflicts, or providing transparency, or worse – passing themselves off as the public to deceive? Surely there are rules about this? A very knowledgeable Murray Carpenter wrote this letter to the Indepentent Herald this week: Is he the same Murray Carpenter, senior Engineer… Read More
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Takapu Valley, Wellington City, Wellington, 5028, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Long Term Plan consultations
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- According to the Local Government Act 2002, every local authority is required to have a long term plan in place, covering a minimum of 10 years.
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Four Months To Save The Basin: NZ Transport Agency’s High Court Appeal Set Down For Monday 20 July
- Save the Basin Reserve!
- Here’s what you need to know: Short version: We have four months to raise $50,000 to fight the Transport Agency in the High Court for the future of the Basin Reserve.
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Know Your Network: Snapper
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- I recently had a couple of interesting questions pop up that deserved answers regarding how Snapper processes problems.
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Negligence and Recklessness
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- Untitled by Nicolas Alejandro (CC BY 2.
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Mayors and motorways
- Wellington Scoop
- If you drive north past Mackays Crossing on SH1, you get a reminder of the current roadbuilding overkill – you see that a four lane motorway is being built alongside the existing four-lane motorway.
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Mackays Crossing, State Highway 1, Raumati, Paekakariki, Kapiti Coast District, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa
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Trust display at Upper Hutt Summer Carnival
- Rimutaka Incline Railway
- A brilliantly fine day at Trentham Memorial Park for the 2015 Upper Hutt Summer Carnival - a great venue for the Trust to promote its activities and operating days. Prominent in the display was the cab and bunker side of steam loco Wb 299, which proved popular with the public. As earlier published in Wb 299 rebuild under way the cab is an interactive exhibit, folk are free to try out the driver's seat and glance out the cab window - and get a sense of the scale and heritage of the loco.
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Trentham Memorial Park, Barton Avenue, Heretaunga, Upper Hutt, Upper Hutt City, Wellington, 5019, New Zealand/Aotearoa
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Work in progress 7 March 2015
- Rimutaka Incline Railway
- Bart and Graeme have done a wonderful job tending to the native shrubs and trees planted at our Maymorn site. A host of native shrubs and trees have been planted alongside our future mainline formation to the Kaitoke side of the pedestrian crossing. The plants have taken despite the arduous ground conditions and occasional accidental dose of weedspray - a vast improvement over the gorse and blackberry the previously occupied the area.
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Rimutaka Incline Railway Heritage Trust, Maymorn, Upper Hutt, Upper Hutt City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Community groups join together to back Board of Inquiry decision on a Basin Reserve flyover
- Save the Basin Reserve!
- Local groups that believe the decision by the Board of Inquiry into the Basin Bridge project should stand, are energetically raising funds to defend the decision against the New Zealand Transport Agency’s appeal to the High Court.
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Walking and cycling – the need for more ambitious goals and more spending
- Wellington Scoop
- The type and quality of urban transport networks within an urban area have a large impact on quality of life for residents. For regions such as Wellington, looking to support future sustainable development of the region and a transformation to a low-carbon economy, a critical element is planning to support public transport, walking and cycling networks.
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Track extended past gate
- Rimutaka Incline Railway
- On 7 February 2015 we extended our mainline track past the gate towards Maymorn station. Just a short distance, but great to be heading "up the hill" with the track again.
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Rimutaka Incline Railway Heritage Trust, Maymorn, Upper Hutt, Upper Hutt City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Walk2Work 2015
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- This Wednesday, March 11, brings us the 2015 incarnation of Walk2Work, brought to you by Living Streets Aotearoa and all sorts of local government bodies.
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Building a road and saving 30 seconds
- Wellington Scoop
- One of the most extraordinary things about plans to bulldoze a road through the pristine Takapu Valley is the claim about how much time will be saved. They’re counting the savings in seconds. The claim is found in an Appendix to the controversial report in which the chief executives of regional councils tell their mayors that they ought to support a road through the valley.
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Kilbirnie, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
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NZTA roads explained
- Eye of the Fish
- Since Scoop posted a top-secret document online, via Peter Dunn, I’ve been trying to make sense of what NZTA and the Mayors of our cities, are up to. In the end, i figured that the only way I could make sense of the discussion was to make my own maps. The lack of coordinated and articulate maps from NZTA is either deliberate, or by accident. If it is an accident, then it’s down to gross incompetence, and if it’s deliberate, then it’s simply a political desire to keep you/us in the dark. You can make your own mind up. If they won’t do it, and show us some maps, then I will. So, here are some maps. Let’s start off with an easy one: where is Transmission Gully?
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Transmission Gully Motorway, Kenepuru, Porirua, Porirua City, Wellington, 5022, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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