by Lindsay Shelton
The Wellington City Council now has a ready-made reason to bring its parking services in-house. Read more »

by Neil Douglas
I’d landed in Perth after twelve hours travelling from Wellington. You spend longer flying over the desert than you do over the Tasman. It was 9.30pm and I was tired but I was jolted back into life by a loud-mouthed miner. Read more »

by Lindsay Shelton
The Wellington City Council is talking about saving $500,000 from merging two council-controlled organisations and bringing two other council companies in-house. But the mayor says no jobs will be lost – and that’s hard to understand. $500,000 won’t be saved only by dismissing three boards of trustees. Read more »

by Brent Efford
The hearings of public submissions on the Wellington Public Transport Spine Study are drawing to a close. Many of the submissions have not been kind to the study. Read more »

by Russell Tregonning
Wellington public transport planners apparently don’t rate community health. The words ‘health’ and ‘climate’ are not mentioned, even once, in the regional council’s public transport spine study. The study should be revised to include a health impact assessment. Read more »

by Lindsay Shelton
The Wellington City Council is at last starting to show signs that it will move faster to build new cycleways. If it can sustain its new enthusiasm for action, work could begin next year on a cycleway from Island Bay to the CBD. Read more »

by Elaine Engman
The Transport Agency had a sod-breaking ceremony for the Mackays Crossing to Peka Peka Expressway on Monday. But instead of being a community celebration, it seemed to be quite a secretive occasion. Read more »

NZTA visual simulation amended by Maximus of eyeofthefish

by Lindsay Shelton
The DomPost, one of the cheerleaders for a $90m flyover at the Basin Reserve, has belatedly discovered that there are significant concerns about the plan. Read more »

by Neil Douglas
My visit to Sydney last week showed me just why Wellington should not be contemplating a flyover at the Basin Reserve. Read more »

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by Lindsay Shelton
Thanks to the retired judge who’s running the flyover board of inquiry, we can be shown the some of the environmental damage that will be caused if a 300-metre concrete bridge is built next to the Basin Reserve. Above: the familiar view looking west down Ellice Street. And, below, how the view would be cut off by the flyover and two lanes of overhead traffic.

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by Lindsay Shelton
Willis Bond are continuing their tactic of pushing the limits for new waterfront buildings. Read more »

by Neil Douglas
How strange that the regional council has renovated the wasteland station at Ngauranga, but has closed the Kaiwharawhara station which was used by five times as many travellers. Read more »

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Weekday use of Wellington Region rail stations based on 2004 on and off counts for Tranz Metro

by Neil Douglas
How endangered is your railway station? The Regional Council has just announced its second rail station closure in three years. Since it took over the job of looking after our fifty stations, it has closed two and opened none. Read more »

Wellington.Scoop
When the regional council voted last week to close the railway station at Kaiwharawhara, it was in denial about the fact that the station is in area full of potential for developing rail travel. Read more »

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The City Housing team of Wellington City Council broke out the balloons for a celebratory “opening day” at the Newtown Park Apartments on Saturday. Read more »

by Neil Douglas
“Walk to the Z Energy/Burger King and save the $7 airport stand charge – that’s what the young ‘uns do”, my Wellington Combined taxi driver told me on my early morning ride to the Airport last Thursday. “$7 is too much for the airport charge, we don’t get anything for it – it’s just Infratil making money,” he said. “Wellington needs another airport to give them some competition” he added. Read more »

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Wellington’s summer was at its early best today, giving special pleasure to scores of swimmers at Island Bay. Read more »

by A. Omundsen
Submissions made by seven councils within the Wellington Region have all raised serious concerns about changes to the Resource Management Act 1991 proposed in the February discussion document titled “Improving Our Resource Management System.” Read more »