by Lindsay Shelton
The new census figures showing an extraordinary increase in the number of Wellingtonians walking and cycling to work (and a decline in the numbers who are driving) couldn’t have come at a better time. Read more »

by Lindsay Shelton
Plans for more big spending are being thrown around by our elected representatives this morning. Read more »

by Lindsay Shelton
There’s a credibility problem with yesterday’s decision to introduce a public transport system called Bus Rapid Transit in Wellington. The result, we are promised, will be “faster journey times through the Golden Mile.” But we’ve heard it all before. It’s exactly what the same people promised when they reopened Manners Street to buses. Read more »

by Brent Efford
The Spine Study will do nothing to make public transport more useable and attractive for the overwhelming majority of greater Wellington residents. Read more »

by Lindsay Shelton
The threats from the Transport Agency to the Wellington City Council were raised again last week at the board of inquiry on the Basin flyover proposal. Read more »

by Tim Jones
The Basin “Bridge” Board of Inquiry hearing is turning into an epic to rival War and Peace, but with slightly fewer cannons. The hearing began on Monday 3 February and shows no sign of abating any time soon: it’s been a while since a full timetable was issued, but at this stage, the hearing looks likely to run into mid-April. Read more »

by Tim Jones
Seven reasons why there shouldn’t be a flyover alongside the Basin Reserve. Read more »

by Paul Bruce
Raising fares is hardly the way to reward new customers, much less hold on to one’s existing customer base, reduce congestion, or address the obesity epidemic. Read more »

Wellington.Scoop
After we reported the city council’s secret memorandum of understanding with the Transport Agency two weeks ago, we discovered that our elected city councillors had no idea of its existence. Read more »

by Lindsay Shelton
Many of us have been wondering this morning why Wellington Airport doesn’t have the necessary systems to enable flights to keep landing when there’s fog. (Like big airports do.) But some of us have also been puzzling about how the Regional Council could spend $9.7m on a real-time information system that isn’t working. Read more »

News from Hutt City Council
A $48 million proposal released today by the Hutt City Community Facilities Trust and Welnix Director Dr Gareth Morgan includes plans to build a 10,000 – 12,000 seat boutique stadium at the southern end of the Petone Recreation Ground. Read more »

Wellington.Scoop
They can’t be allowed to demolish the Town Hall. Talk by two councillors this morning about keeping only the facade is nonsensical. Read more »

Wellington.Scoop
Evidence now available online from the Basin flyover inquiry has shown a strange and conflicting contradiction between a decision made by Wellington city councillors and an agreement that was formalised a few days later. Read more »

Wellington.Scoop
City councillors are unrepentant about rejecting an application, involving former councillor John Morrison, which asked the council to spend $200,000 on an unconfirmed plan for a visit by a group of business people from India. Read more »

by Lindsay Shelton
A lawyer has told the board of inquiry that the proposed flyover alongside the Basin Reserve does not fit the strategic planning objectives of the Wellington City Council. It doesn’t fit the council’s eco city strategies. It doesn’t fit the council’s smart city ambitions. It certainly doesn’t fit a people-centred city. Read more »

Wellington.Scoop
Daily transcripts from the flyover inquiry provide some memorable examples of key issues being considered by the four government-appointed board members. Here, from the official transcript of day two, the Transport Agency tries to defend its plan for providing seats and flowerbeds under the flyover, while also – contradictorily – wanting to discourage loitering in the same area. Read more »

Wellington.Scoop
The Wellington City Council had a lot to say yesterday about the wellbeing of cricketers. Its representative at the Basin flyover board of inquiry said the council’s support of the flyover was conditional on ensuring that cricketers’ interests were protected. Read more »

by Lindsay Shelton
Four men in suits, chosen by the government, yesterday started the long process of deciding whether or not to allow the government’s Transport Agency to spend $90m building a concrete flyover alongside the Basin Reserve. Read more »