Wellington Scoop / March 2012
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We’re waiting to hear how they’ll save $180m
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- Wellington City Councillors spent most of last week trying to make decisions about spending. More accurately: decisions about cutting spending. For the rest of us, the issue is what they’ll decide about the rates. They’ve consistently shown enthusiasm for increasing the rates every year. As a result, as the DomPost reports this morning, Wellington’s rates increased by 86 per cent in the first decade of the new century.
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Farewell to Fred’s
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46 Frederick Street, Wellington
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Many concerns voiced about changes to Wellington’s bus services
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- Cr Paul Bruce and I are now about half way through a series of community presentations on the Wellington Bus Service Review. A broad range of issues have been raised at the meetings, including:
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First the trains, then the buses?
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- Stranded in Waikanae? TransMetro was replacing trains with buses between Porirua and Waikanae this weekend, because of continuing work on the Kapiti line. But today they announced that the buses may also be stopped “due to the extreme weather.”
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