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The following posts are filed under: transport.
Let’s Get Wellington Moving: what’s that all about again? (it’s been so long)
The gossip says (again!) that the LGWM Cabinet announcement is imminent. If you’re anything like us, you’ve kinda forgotten… but it’s worth remembering, so a handy refresher!
Read MoreLet’s Get Welly Moving – tough choices ahead
Our friends up in Auckland are looking down on Let’s Get Welly Moving – Matt L did some investigating…
Read MoreElectric Dreams of Wellington’s Tram History
A little story about an ol’ tram/bus stop in Miramar has us dreaming of early twentieth-century electric transport. A seamless tram ride from Seatoun to Thorndon would be a joy for today’s frazzled Wellington commuters!
Read MoreSafe Cycling in the CBD
Talk Wellington was passing the time on Facebook (I mean, who doesn’t?) and came across a thread on Vic Deals…
Read MoreFriday Poem – The Final Lap
Wellingtonian Tim Jones drives south through the Wairarapa – and writes an evocative poem.
Read MoreTalking transport in Te Upoko o te Ika: Monday 30 Jul
Our regular round up of the week’s goings on with getting around.
Read MoreTalking transport in Te Upoko o te Ika: Monday 23 Jul
We round up the drama of last week’s bus changes.
Read MoreAnd we’re off! Doing Transport Differently* (*better)
Today the coalition government released its 10-year Government Policy Statement on Transport, showing how our taxes will be spent on getting around (and quite a lot of our rates too). It’s got some changes from the initial one, which saw much handwaving and consternation, but it’s a strong new direction and at Talk Wellington our…
Read MorePlimmerton Farm – Glimmer of Hope or Grimmer and Nope?
A new suburb! Hawoo! Surely that will ease the housing woes and we’ll have enough for everyone, there’ll be no concerns about extra cars on the road, everything will be beautiful, lovely, wonderful, hunky-flippin’-dory. Or not.
Read MoreNZ roads: heaps safer soon?
News! The government’s going to spend our dollars differently on transport: less of some stuff, and more of other stuff. Greater Auckland’s Matt Lowrie has read the new draft Transport Investment Proposal so you don’t have to. And it’s good news if you think our road toll trend is a bad thing. This post was originally…
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