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Facing towards our water
Why do we love being near water? The best bits of Wellington’s towns bring people to water, and Riverlink is now turning Lower Hutt’s face to Te Awa Kairangi. The Hutt River, Te Awa Kairangi, has been engineered hard over the last century to reduce the frequency of flooding (and massively raising the stakes). Despite…
Read MoreWaterproofing Wellington
You’d be forgiven for thinking Wellingtonians are determined to spend more time knee-deep in water. Talk Wellington looks at why our places are likely to flood more, and ways we can stop it. It rains quite a lot in Wellington, and floods quite a lot. And it’s very likely to rain harder in the near…
Read MoreGetting around: Who wants what?
Wellington’s getting a lot of big new roads. TalkWellington, looking at Auckland, wonders if it’s wholly good news for Wellington’s future. So many new roads! They include what’s currently the nation’s single largest earthworks project, Transmission Gully. Most of them are funded by the NZ Transport Agency (NZTA). These roads will have a huge impact…
Read More(W)here’s the sunshine!
We’re past the shortest day, but the sun hunger is setting in. TalkWellington has been fiddling with some tools for finding the sunshine – and figuring out what it’s worth. Mapping it This lovely warm-looking map is by data visualisation whizzes Dumpark, using Wellington City Council’s open data. With the “total hours” button you can…
Read MoreGo where the people go (it’s money)
Public transport hubs in Wellington generally aren’t great, but this might be about to change. Greater Wellington (and, appended, Wellington City Council) are seeking our feedback: on new bus hubs in Johnsonville and Kilbirnie, and upgrades to facilities in five other “bus hubs” (Newtown, Courtenay Place, Miramar, Brooklyn and Karori Tunnel). We hear there are…
Read MoreBig brands, small towns
Big-brand retail in Wellington is generating bad news for Ōtaki and good news for Tawa. But there’s more to it than meets the eye. Ōtaki is mostly known (by the rest of the region) as an outlet shopping destination, or the place you stop for 20 minutes on your roadtrip to stretch…
Read MoreNew life in old buildings
Conversions of old commercial buildings to apartments are picking up pace. But are developers building for the future, or the present? Recently this popped up over at Eyeofthefish: There’s more of this going on now, thankfully, given our painfully tight residential property market. Two examples beyond the Wellington CBD are Post Offices:…
Read MoreThat tree: What did it ever do for you?
Do you have trees in the street you live? Or at the place you work? Are they big or small? Your answers may say something about your quality of life
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