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Wellington City Public Transport: Nicola Young tells it like it is and Andy...
Andy Foster in a Swimming Pool In this month’s Capital Magazine , Nicola Young, one of the Lambton Ward Councillors, has an opinion piece on the public transport in and around Wellington City. It’s not...
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The Truth about Wellington’s Trolley Buses
Paul Swain – Where’s our bus fare price drop? The Green Party today coming out in true election year form in a bid to save Wellington’s Trolley Buses. But why? With an expensive fleet of buses, hard to...
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Wellington’s Public Transport Strategy: “A monument to stupidity”
Consultation? I wish I had never started down the road of looking at the Wellington City public transport, being buses. The issue is complex and the players wide and varied. However, a couple of things...
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WCC: Young and Free take lead on Public Transport; Foster Fizzes
Both Nicola Young and Sarah Free have lead the charge on outing the Greater Wellington Regional Council’s plans to increase fares and the unbalanced way in which the residents subsidises the various...
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Island Bay Bedroom to Boardroom Cycle-Way to Nowhere: Cost $14,000 per...
Following on from the latest blog , which pointed out that we could see the loss of up to 1,000 car parks between Island Bay and the CBD, we’ve got some fresh information that strengthens the case for...
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Bi-Annual Unofficial Wellington City Council Survey
We ran a survey about six months ago that looked at the then performance of the City Councillors and Mayor, among other things. We’re running that same survey again to see how the new Council is going....
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New Zealand: Local Government, DIA ICT Services, Smart Cities and the coming...
I spent the morning with the Association of Local Government Information Management (ALGIM) at their conference in Palmerston North. They had a huge range of topics on their agenda for the two days and...
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Wellington Civic Hackathon Day One: Positive Disruption, Energy, Innovation,...
Day one down and thirty local Wellington technologists, experts, urban planners, transport enthusiasts, designers, application developers, mesh network builders, and sensor specialists have been...
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Press Release: (FIT) Have your say on the Draft Regional Land Transport Plan...
The Regional Transport Committee’s Draft Regional Land Transport Plan is currently open for submissions. It lists and prioritises what the Regional Transport Committee considers to be Wellington’s...
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Updated terms of carriage for Metlink services
Originally posted on Sustainable Wellington Transport: At the 25 March 2015 Strategy and Policy meeting, Greater Wellington adopted a new policy for carriage of children in prams and for foot...
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Events: Planning to Fail
Strathmore Park:Couldn’t have said it better myself. Several of us have petitioned the WCC and GWRC long and hard to release the Real Time Data for buses so we can build custom applications to allow a...
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High Court rejects Transport Agency’s bid to get approval for Basin flyover
Lindsay Shelton writes at Wellington Scoop The High Court today dismissed the NZ Transport Agency’s attempt to overturn the rejection of its controversial plan to build a 300-metre concrete flyover...
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Wellington bus services in crisis
by Nicola Young Our bus service is in crisis, due to the failed and confused leadership of the two regional authorities responsible – the Regional Council and the City Council. The trolleys are going...
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Gloves off: Nicola Young comes out swinging on transport
Nicola Young has come out swinging on the Council’s transport record and has directly criticised the Mayor for “failures” in this space including a “tactical no-show” on a key vote around transport...
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Hey Paul Swain, we can’t use your ghost buses bro
More of what we already knew today, Wellington’s public transport is seriously expensive and getting more expensive by the year. In fact in the last decade prices have gone up between 30% and 50%, and...
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