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 »

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 »

Press Release – Save the Basin Campaign
The Save the Basin Campaign showed its love for the Basin Reserve today by organising a Valentine’s Day demonstration which also coincided with the first day of the second test match between New Zealand and India. Read more »

News release from Takapu Valley
Takapu Valley residents have uncovered a last minute plan by the Wellington City Council and the the New Zealand Transport Agency to ‘throw Porirua City and Hutt City under the bus’ with 11th hour Transmission Gully plan changes that will see the motorway diverted straight through the Takapu Valley community, with minimal time for consultation or appeal. 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 »

News release from NZ Labour Party
The travel time saved by the proposed Basin Reserve flyover amounts to only 90 seconds, not the claimed seven-and-a-half minutes, a new statement by experts and witnesses shows, Labour’s MP for Wellington Central Grant Robertson says. 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 »

Wellington.Scoop
It’s going to take the next two months for the board of inquiry to hear all the evidence for and against the flyover that the government’s Transport Agency wants to build alongside the Basin Reserve. Read more »

Wellington.Scoop
Property owners in the Takapu Valley north of Wellington are in danger of joining the list of people whose lives are being changed for the worse by the Transport Agency. The Agency has told them that their farms could be cut in half by a new link road from Grenada North to the new Transmission Gully motorway. Read more »

Wellington.Scoop
The DomPost, long a supporter of a flyover at the Basin Reserve, is making a last minute discovery of some of the arguments against it. Read more »

by Lindsay Shelton
Judging from two reports last week, the government’s Transport Agency isn’t likely to win any popularity contests. Read more »

Report from Kapiti Independent by Alan Tristram
Murray Livingstone watched in dismay yesterday as bulldozers demolished his home and business site of 19 years at the corner of State Highway 1 and Poplar Avenue in Raumati South on the Kapiti Coast. Read more »

News from WCC
The Wellington City Council and the NZ Transport Agency will this week sign an agreement to strengthen the relationship between them, and to work together on the transport opportunities that benefit the Capital. Read more »