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    Bouquet’s for Green Councillors and Brickbats for Basin Flyover



    I want to give a big green anti-histamine free bouquet to the Green Councillors on the Wellington City Council. Long serving WCC stalwart Celia Wade-Brown and relative newbie Iona Pannett got the big thumbs up for their regional representation in the Wellingtonian’s Wellington city councillors’ mid-term report. Now given the good words written about Iona and [...] read more
    April 17, 2009 10:46 am - 18 Comments
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    Wellington’s unpopular new tunnel still going ahead



    Wellingtonista quickly summarises the protest this morning about the City Council’s plans to go on a massively expensive road building spree from Ngauranga to Wellington airport. The plans include a Basin Reserve flyover and further car tunnels under Mount Victoria and The Terrace (just as we enter a financial crisis, peak oil and the need [...] read more
    October 31, 2008 3:57 pm - 13 Comments