Wellington Scoop / November 2021
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Moving on, and finding the best new VC for VUW
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Victoria University of Wellington, Waiteata Road, Aro Valley, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
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Newtown’s streets of history
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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)
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Getting rid of traffic
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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)
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1500 days in Island Bay
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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)
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The birth of the film festival
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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
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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)
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