Wellington Scoop and Places
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Frustrated, angry, bullied: Kapiti residents say new expressway will trash the district
- Wellington Scoop
- The strength of grass-roots opposition to an expressway through Kapiti is shown in this week’s announcement that residents are planning to march on parliament. The “frustrated and angry” residents aim to target Transport Minister Stephen Joyce, whose Transport Agency is preparing to build the new motorway.
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- wellington-northern-corridor
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Flyovers and the Wellywood sign
- Wellington Scoop
- One word was missing from the Transport Agency’s announcement that next month it will finally tell the public about its plans for changing State Highway One around the Basin Reserve. The word which the Agency chose not to use: flyover.
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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The main road runs through Newtown, but the criticism is about a traffic island
- Wellington Scoop
- The main streets of Newtown are being converted into State Highway One for four nights every week from now till the end of the year, while the NZ Transport Agency is closing the Mt Victoria tunnel for repairs. But it wasn’t all the extra traffic that upset Newtown locals last week – it was the Agency’s decision to remove a traffic island from Riddiford Street.
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Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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They’re wasting money on the waterfront
- Wellington Scoop
- The Wellington City Council will today be deciding to spend money preparing to review its ten-year-old waterfront framework. The council will be wasting the money. It’s planning to ask questions to which it already knows the answers. There’s no need for a review.
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Unstoppable? How Hataitai would be damaged by a $45m four-lane highway
- Wellington Scoop
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Hataitai, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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What will we do to save Cuba Street?
- Wellington Scoop
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Cuba Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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The disappearance of nine car parks, and the decline of a heritage shopping precinct
- Wellington Scoop
- n November 2008, road works were started to resurface and widen Riddiford Street in Newtown, from the southern end to the heritage shopping precinct at the intersection of John Street and Adelaide Road. The contractor put up a sign saying the work would take a month. But it took two and a half months, finishing about the middle of February 2009.
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Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Disaster preparedness at grassroots level: the Newlands example
- Wellington Scoop
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Newlands, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
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The pollution of the Karori Stream – and the failure of two councils
- Wellington Scoop
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Karori, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Losing their homes and their dreams, to make way for four lanes of speeding traffic
- Wellington Scoop
- You can’t help feeling sorry for the 15 (or more) Raumati South families who’ve discovered that their houses will be demolished to make way for the southern entrance to the new Kapiti expressway.
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Street scenes: festive songs in the Cuba Mall
- Wellington Scoop
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Cuba Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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SCOOP IMAGES: a new (and reversed) route through Manners and Cuba Streets
- Wellington Scoop
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Cuba Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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The changing fate of Lower Cuba Street
- Wellington Scoop
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Cuba Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Porirua mayoralty: Ah Hoi aims for top job
- Wellington Scoop
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Porirua, Wellington Region, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Porirua City Council appoints new chief executive from Kapiti
- Wellington Scoop
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Porirua, Wellington Region, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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A second Mt Victoria tunnel in ten years – yes, no, maybe?
- Wellington Scoop
- Wellington Mayor Kerry Prendergast took everyone by surprise this week by enabling a headline which stated uncategorically: Green light for second Mt Vic Tunnel. The headline is in The Wellingtonian, above a report written by Rebecca Thompson. But there’s no evidence of a green light, or even an orange one.
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Mt. Victoria, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Threat to Johnsonville property values? Planning changes become election issue
- Wellington Scoop
- The Johnsonville Progressive Association has today been describing a basic fear of property owners whose savings are in their houses. The association says that Johnsonville residents are upset by the Wellington City Council’s District Plan Change 72, which councilors will be voting on tomorrow. It fears that the changes will push their suburb down the socio-economic ladder. And if Johnsonville goes down, down with it will go the value of the houses.
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