WCC Watch and Transport
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New ways to waste money – it’s the #wadebrownwccway
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- We got a little bored with the Island Bay cycleway debacle – and judging by the Mayor’s lack of support in the media Celia Wade-Bicycle is also giving her troubled Island Bay project a wide berth.
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Island Bay, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
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Council prioritises Chinese Garden and Cycleway over Hospital Water Supply
- WCC Watch
- Capital and Coast DHB Board Member and Porirua Mayor, Nick Leggett and Southern Ward Councillor, Paul Eagle, have highlighted a bizarre decision by Council to refuse to fund the emergency water reservoir that serves the Hospital.
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Porirua, Wellington Region, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Cycleway Shambles the hot summer BBQ topic
- WCC Watch
- We are back for 2016 and if there was one issue that kept getting brought up around BBQs across the Capital this summer, it was the Mayoral Cycleway Omni-shambles.
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Blast from the past – Morrison’s pledge not to vote for a Basin flyover
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- The good thing about the internet is that comments are hard to hide or make disappear. Just like this clanger from the 2010 debate around the Basin Reserve flyover: Not […]
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Candidates on the Basin Reserve Flyover
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- The Save the Basin campaign have asked Wellington’s candidates for local body election (even District Health Board candidates) where they stand on the controvesial issue. Very poor response rate overall, […]
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Eagle on the case
- WCC Watch
- Southern Ward councillor Paul Eagle has pounced on the news in today’s Dom Post that the fly over may mean that KFC on Kent Terrace will have to move. He […]
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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WCC Watch Soapbox: Sarah Free – Handle with Care: the Case for the Runway Extension
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- Next up on the WCC Watch Soapbox is the Green Party’s Eastern Ward candidate Sarah Free. Feel free to leave questions for her in the comments. As always candidates (or […]
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Get hitched
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- 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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Public transport fare changes
- WCC Watch
- Greater Wellington Regional Council has ignored the campaign for fairer fares for tertiary students as it drafted a new fare structure for all bus, rail and ferry trips.
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Basin flyover an iconic structure opportunity
- WCC Watch
- Like it or not, the recent announcements by the Government mean the Basin Reserve flyover will be happening and what we now need to do is shift our thinking towards what it looks like.
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Aitken Angst
- WCC Watch
- We got a rare insight into Greater Wellington Regional Council-Wellington City Council dynamics when regional councillor Judith Aitken posted this odd statement on Celia Wade-Brown’s Facebook about her (last time I checked, fellow Labour Party) colleague Daran Ponter: This prompted the following stinging rebuke from Daran Ponter and Wellington City councillor Paul Eagle: Good on Ponter for calling her out. Oh, Baby Boomer with a 100% subsided Gold Card, please tell me more about how we can’t increase public transport subsidies. This is staggering. If you’re a Regional Councillor, you would need to have been hiding under a rock for the past few years not to be aware of the issues around public transport. And you’d expect someone who has been on the GWRC since 2001 to already be discussing issues with their WCC colleagues and community stakeholders. Aitken doesn’t even live in the constituency area she is elected to represent (Wellington City), enjoys fully subsidised public transport with her tax-payer funded Gold Card, and is one of those local government shapeshifters, like Helene Ritchie, who get elected to both a council and a health board purely on name recognition, then aren’t in a hurry to leave anytime soon. She should retire and let a new, fresh, and forward thinking person take her seat and actually represent Wellington City. They deserve better.
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Council supports runway extension
- WCC Watch
- Good to see something positive coming from the Wellington City Council with their 11-2 vote last night to put $1m towards the resource consent process for a $300 million runway extension at Wellington Airport.
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Wellington International Airport, Coutts Street, Rongotai, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6023, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Ritchie fighting Runway
- WCC Watch
- Fear not residents of the Eastern Ward, Ritchie’s got your back.
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All aboard?
- WCC Watch
- It seems a student campaign pushing for tertiary student concession fares on public transport is hitting a nerve.
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Wednesday’s council meeting
- WCC Watch
- As most of Wellington knows, the majority of the council have forced it to sit for an “extraordinary” meeting, at 5:31pm Wednesday, to deal with the situation of the council’s position to the NZTA proposals, despite Celia’s best efforts to delay the situation.
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Snapper for trains?
- WCC Watch
- Very interesting revelation in today’s Dom Post that the GWRC is missing out on about $9,000 in train fares every weekday because the trains are too crowded for ticket collectors to get to the patrons… It was revealed today that Greater Wellington regional council has lost about $260,000 as overcrowding on trains prevents staff from collecting fares.
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Manners Street claims another j-walker
- WCC Watch
- Stuff are reporting that yet another pedestrian has been hit by a bus on the new Manners Street route.
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Live tweeting the new bus route!
- WCC Watch
- Wellingtonista blogger Robyn Gallagher has had a fun morning trying out the new bus route – in both directions! She live tweeted the affair – you can read them on her twitter, or by using the hash tag #mannersbus If anyone has any photos – please send them through! Update: Robyn has now finished, with the following tweet: “Righto, Manners Street bus lane has been fully examined.
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Manners Street bus lane fiasco – storm in a tea cup?
- WCC Watch
- The Wellingtonian has run a story about the continuing controversy over the new bus route through Manners Street.
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Roads not light rail looks set to dominate short-term agenda
- WCC Watch
- Troops in mud – not unlike a visit to the Buckle Street war memorial on a rainy day.
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Screaming Jets play Wellington, Sept/Oct 2011
- WCC Watch
- No, this is not a post on the Aussie hard rock band Screaming Jets.
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Wellington International Airport, Coutts Street, Rongotai, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6023, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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It’s the final countdown
- WCC Watch
- Wellington City Council announce that it’s only six weeks until Manners Mall is no more and the buses will be zapping back and forth under their shiny new wires.
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Getting off parking tickets – ask your council how
- WCC Watch
- This year’s Ombudsmen annual report to Parliament, tabled last week, had an interesting discussion on the disclosure requirements around the rules governing parking ticket waivers (page 39).
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Statement to WCC Watch from the Office of the Mayor
- WCC Watch
- It appears the Dom Post’s story on candidate profiles was not entirely accurate.
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Wellington City parking supremo dies in Sydney
- WCC Watch
- The founder of Tenix, Carlo Salteri, died on Tuesday night in Sydney, aged 89 according to a Sydney Morning Herald report.
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Do we need light rail to the airport?
- WCC Watch
- View This Pollcustomer surveys
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Tin-foil hat candidate for the Southern Ward
- WCC Watch
- Seann Paurini has announced he is running for the Southern Ward. He is against “the proliferation of surveillance technologies” and the parking enforcement camera car. Oh well, at least he’s got a niche.
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Light rail – compare and contrast
- WCC Watch
- The Press is today running a story about Jim Anderton (Chch Mayoral aspirant) slamming Bob Parker’s (sitting Mayor) plans for light rail and an integrated underground bus interchange in the Christchurch CBD.
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