Wellington Scoop / February 2010
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Situation vacant at Tranz Metro: they want someone to improve their services
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- The subject for today (when there’ve been more breakdowns) is how Tranz Metro is planning to improve the unhappy experiences of commuters who travel on its Wellington services
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The local people know that the memorial park can’t have a road cutting it in two
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- The people of Mt Cook know what needs to be done to make the long-postponed Buckle Street Memorial Park a success. The best solution, they say, is to trench and cover Buckle Street, so that the park can connect with the National War Memorial.
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Mount Cook, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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The council encourages whisky-drinking while it says it wants to ban liquor
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- The Wellington City Council seems to be in denial. Having created the happy, over-the-top mayhem that is Courtenay Place every weekend, it’s now trying to calm things down with a ban on liquor in any public place. It already has a liquor ban in the central city, as is evidenced by its over-sized signs on lampposts. But now it wants to extend the ban into the suburbs as well.
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Music School debate: why Erskine College could be a world-class music complex
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- In New Zealand’s Centenary Year 1940, National Radio Founder Director James Shelley envisioned an integrated national music service to include a permanent symphony orchestra and Conservatorium of Music housed side by side in Wellington.
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Island Bay, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
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Why we can’t be smug about the leaky buildings on Auckland’s waterfront
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- I felt unreasonably smug at the weekend when I learnt that the Hilton Hotel on Princes Wharf in Auckland has had to close some of its best rooms because there are leaks in the walls. Would this have also been the fate of a Hilton Hotel in Wellington, had it been allowed to build on the outer-Tee of Queens Wharf?
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Cheap tickets, or reliable timetables?
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- The Regional Council’s decision to increase Wellington’s low-cost bus fares seems to have taken many people by surprise. But we should be more concerned about the reliability of bus services than about having to pay another 50 cents per ride.
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