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• • Not only bus drivers

    • 29 Nov 2021
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• • Moving on, and finding the best new VC for VUW

    • 25 Nov 2021
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    Victoria University of Wellington, Waiteata Road, Aro Valley, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Seeking the facts, but being distracted by PR

    • 24 Nov 2021
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• • Sorting out the mayoralty, and the bay

    • 22 Nov 2021
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• • Rates and water and fury

    • 21 Nov 2021
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• • Newtown’s streets of history

    • 20 Nov 2021
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    • As one of Wellington’s oldest suburbs, Newtown was initially undulating fields sloping to swampy ground ending up at the Basin Reserve. The Wellesley Block was advertised to settlers interested in a house with land. Mostly they’d come from dense tenements in the UK or slums in Te Aro.
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    Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • What is “walkable?”

    • 19 Nov 2021
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• • Picking up the pace

    • 18 Nov 2021
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• • Halving protection, and doubling heights

    • 17 Nov 2021
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• • Getting rid of traffic

    • 15 Nov 2021
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    • Last week’s cautious city council move towards keeping traffic out of more of Cuba Street, and converting part of Dixon Street for pedestrians, should be welcomed by almost everyone, except for the few who still think that customers only arrive in cars. Councillors voted 11-3 to limit private vehicle access on Cuba Street between Ghuznee Street and Vivian Street, and on Dixon Street between Taranaki Street and Victoria Street.
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    Cuba Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • We need rules, not a word salad

    • 11 Nov 2021
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• • Daylight robbery

    • 10 Nov 2021
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• • 1500 days in Island Bay

    • 9 Nov 2021
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    • Last Friday was 1,500 days since the Wellington City Council voted 13-1 to upgrade The Parade in Island Bay. So why hasn’t the work started? Here’s a rundown of everything that’s happened (or not happened) in the four years since then.
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    Island Bay, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Losing the right to appeal

    • 8 Nov 2021
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• • Kim Hunt and her badass characters

    • 7 Nov 2021
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• • The birth of the film festival

    • 5 Nov 2021
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    • The Wellington Film Festival, which launched its 50th anniversary season at the Embassy Theatre last night, was born out of the film society movement. In the same year that I was elected president of the Wellington Film Society, I was appointed programmer for New Zealand’s 50 film societies. It was 1970 and I was a television journalist with a yen to be entrepreneurial and plenty of rostered time-off. For the film societies, I had to organise an annual season of films, all to be screened from 16mm prints. There were many critically-acclaimed new titles which were being released in cinemas in London and New York but weren’t being seen in New Zealand because local cinema owners wouldn’t show them.
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• • Upgrading the Basin, but slowly

    • 3 Nov 2021
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    • One thing seems certain from this week’s LGWM announcement – there won’t be a flyover alongside the Basin Reserve. Undergrounding – to separate the two streams of traffic and create lots of new green open space – is on offer in three of the four options. The fourth option (surely no one wants it) is to leave the unpopular roundabout as is.
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    Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Mass transit is dead, long live mass transit

    • 2 Nov 2021
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• • A second year in the country

    • 29 Oct 2021
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• • Tākina: costs, risks, and co-operation

    • 26 Oct 2021
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• • No decisions, but 4 more options

    • 25 Oct 2021
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    • LGWM is continuing its indecisiveness for a sixth year, with four transport options to be announced next week. According to the NZ Herald, all the options include a new Mt Victoria Tunnel, and three of the options include grade separation at the Basin Reserve.
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    Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • What’s wrong with the systems?

    • 24 Oct 2021
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    • For three years, Your Bay Your Say has brought awareness and transparency to the Titahi Bay and Porirua community about the not-fit-for-purpose Porirua Wastewater Treatment Plant, where there’ve been numerous malfunctions, bypasses for UV cleaning, and overflows of partially treated and raw sewage in heavy rain that discharge 700m from the popular Titahi Bay beach.
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    Titahi Bay, Porirua, Porirua City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Warm, healthy, and historic

    • 23 Oct 2021
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• • A $170m deal that has turned sour

    • 22 Oct 2021
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• • Making it happen … with changes

    • 21 Oct 2021
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• • Fighting the takeover of the golf course

    • 19 Oct 2021
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    • Wellington Airport’s plan to take over the golf course became known almost two years ago. An airport master plan announced in October 2019 said the terminal would be doubled in size, with “taxiway improvements” for which it wanted to buy the the southern portion of the Miramar Golf Course to provide space for additional aircraft stands, taxiways and aprons.
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    Miramar Golf Course, Airport Bus Stop Walkway, Rongotai, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6242, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Piano player comes home

    • 17 Oct 2021
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• • Much worse, and sooner

    • 14 Oct 2021
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• • James Bond and a pandemic

    • 12 Oct 2021
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• • 5 ways to get more homes

    • 10 Oct 2021
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