Transport / May 2015
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$90million, but only if …..
- Wellington Scoop
- When city councillors this week reconfirmed their decision that the city should pay $90million towards the unknown cost of extending the airport runway into Cook Strait, some pre-conditions had been added. The key one: that an international airline should have committed to using the runway, before the council hands over the money.
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Great New Video From The Architectural Centre
- Save the Basin Reserve!
- Save the Basin and the Mt Victoria Residents Association have been hard at work raising funds to oppose NZTA’s attempt to get the High Court to overturn the Basin Board of Inquiry decision. The Architectural Centre will also be represented at the High Court, and as part of their fundraising efforts, they have produced the great video above. Please check it out and share it!
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Usefulness of a park
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- It’ll take some time to know how well Pukeahu fits within the fabric of Wellington.
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Great New Video From The Architectural Centre
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- Gregory: The David vs Goliath analogy is quite apt.
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130 year old carriage saved by Trust
- Rimutaka Incline Railway
- <!-- da2a.
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Rimutaka Incline Railway Heritage Trust, Maymorn, Upper Hutt, Upper Hutt City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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New look for bus shelters
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- Over at Auckland Transport Blog, there’s a post about deciding on a new bus shelter for the AT network.
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First of Wellington's newest trains arrive
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- The first pair of two-car units from Wellington’s new batch of Matangi trains arrived by boat from Korea yesterday morning (Sunday 24 May).
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The Water is Wide – Flooding May 2015
- Save Takapu Valley
- 120 mm of rain in 24 hours, 60 of it in one hour. There was a fair bit of damage to public infrastructure. The Wellington water main was undercut in a few places, power poles were washed out and fell over, requiring replacement and relocation. Although this was a pretty epic flood, the… Read More
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Takapu Valley, Wellington City, Wellington, 5028, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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The Water is Wide – Flooding May 2015
- Save Takapu Valley
- 120 mm of rain in 24 hours, 60 of it in one hour. There was a fair bit of damage to public infrastructure. The Wellington water main was undercut in a few places, power poles were washed out and fell over, requiring replacement and relocation. Although this was a pretty epic flood, the… Read More
- Accepted from Save Takapu Valley posts by feedreader
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Takapu Valley, Wellington City, Wellington, 5028, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Should cyclists be forced onto cycle lanes?
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- The question arises from a comment received on a cycling framework post.
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Relighting Cuba Mall
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- WCC put out a press release around some current work going on in Cuba Mall.
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Patronage on privatised bus routes
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- Over the years, I’ve seen a lot of fluctuations in patronage on my bus route.
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Resource consent - Airways traffic control tower - 1 George Bolt Street, Rongotai
- Wellington City Council
- Resource consent application to build a new airways traffic control tower.
- Accepted from WCC public notices
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George Bolt Street, Rongotai, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6022, New Zealand/Aotearoa
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Gumdigger carriage transported north
- Rimutaka Incline Railway
- The two halves of Gumdigger carriage A255 were reunited in Dunedin in May 2015, and traveled by rail from Dunedin to Wellington from 12-16 May, They will be placed onto the carriage underframe and into safe, dry storage in our rail vehicle shed. Once the workshop is finished we plan to start work rebuilding the underframe, bogies and compartments.
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Rimutaka Incline Railway Heritage Trust, Maymorn, Upper Hutt, Upper Hutt City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Kids these days
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- While walking home through Pukeahu last week, there were a bunch of people with skateboards doing exactly what you’d expect in the park.
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Metlink’s Android widget
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- Just before the lunch break, I saw this tweet from Metlink.
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Those pesky roads
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- There was a story run in the DomPost last week about cyclists coming off their bikes in Pukeahu National War Memorial Park because of poor visibility of the kerbs.
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Verandahs, overhead pedestrian infrastructure
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- We tend to take infrastructure for granted.
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Cycling Framework Consultation
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- Wellington City Council was quick off the blocks to get the draft cycling framework out for consultation, which opened on 4 May – quite likely to very many Star Wars puns – and runs until 5pm, 29 May.
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Draft Cycling Framework
- Wellington City Council
- The draft cycling framework shows the overall network plan, the types of cycleways to be built, the connections and the principles behind it all.
- Accepted from Wellington City Council open consultations
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Ministry of Transport Research Shows Up NZTA’s Flawed Traffic Projections
- Save the Basin Reserve!
- Historic New Zealand light vehicle traffic forecasts vs actual growth (Source: MoT) In trying to justify the Government’s $12 billion “Roads of National Significance” motorway-building programme, which included a Basin Reserve flyover, the New Zealand Transport Agency makes great play of a projected increase in Vehicle Kilometres Travelled (VKT).
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Switched on Bikes for Wellington
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- WCC has a news article on supporting Switched on Bikes through the Smart Energy Challenge programme.
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Photos: Parking failures
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- Parking failures seem to be occupying my mind at the moment.
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Threatening parked cars
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- Not long ago, I took a stab at the issue of Wellington City Council forgiving/ignoring/encouraging cars parked on suburban footpaths.
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Greater Wellington Regional Land Transport Plan
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- On his personal blog, GW Councillor Paul Bruce offers his views on the Regional Land Transport Plan.
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