Wellington Scoop / March 2015
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Is Wellington for sale? Five council organisations into one private company
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- It is my opinion that Kevin Lavery and some of the city council leadership team have an agenda for privatising and commercialising city assets that they are determined to push in an opaque and autocratic way. Let’s take a look at WREDA for example – the Wellington Regional Economic Development Agency that was launched with great fanfare last year and has since disappeared off the radar. Its role is to replace five Council-Controlled Organisations: Grow, Positively, Destination, Venues, and Major Events.
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Harbour dredging: why dumping sites are in the wrong places
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- CentrePort is planning to deepen two sections of the Wellington shipping channel to accommodate bigger ships. But it needs to shift its proposed sites for dumping waste from the dredging. The proposed dumping sites are in the wrong places, and would threaten fish resources in the harbour and on the south coast.
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Fitzroy Bay, Kohangatera Track, Lower Hutt, Lower Hutt City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa
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Mayors and motorways
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- If you drive north past Mackays Crossing on SH1, you get a reminder of the current roadbuilding overkill – you see that a four lane motorway is being built alongside the existing four-lane motorway.
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Mackays Crossing, State Highway 1, Raumati, Paekakariki, Kapiti Coast District, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa
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Walking and cycling – the need for more ambitious goals and more spending
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- The type and quality of urban transport networks within an urban area have a large impact on quality of life for residents. For regions such as Wellington, looking to support future sustainable development of the region and a transformation to a low-carbon economy, a critical element is planning to support public transport, walking and cycling networks.
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Building a road and saving 30 seconds
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- One of the most extraordinary things about plans to bulldoze a road through the pristine Takapu Valley is the claim about how much time will be saved. They’re counting the savings in seconds. The claim is found in an Appendix to the controversial report in which the chief executives of regional councils tell their mayors that they ought to support a road through the valley.
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Brooklyn, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Helicopter searches for kayaker off Island Bay, but he wasn’t in trouble
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Island Bay, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
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Problem solved
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- It’s taken the Cricket World Cup to show Wellington how to solve the problem of the under-used emptiness of Civic Square. For years, Civic Square has languished as an unpopulated space.
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Te Ngākau Civic Square, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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