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A direct result of this government’s public transport policy (declining all of the region’s planned new investments in PT infrastructure and reducing the share of public funding) is the slow down in introducing electric buses. So your bus is more likely to be packed and less likely to be electric.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I’m hopeful the ill-considered and extreme policy and funding settings for public transport put in place by the government last year can be fixed to be more connected to reality. If only because they undermine Ministers’ work for value for money, housing growth, productivity and world class cities.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Wellington Water is improving repair times on water leaks. Our investment in water is working, and we're one step closer to ensuring our most precious resource is protected. There's still heaps of mahi to do, but this is true progress. More info below 👇 www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3605...

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

The reason I get up and go to work every day is to give people hope they have a future home in our city. So well said Alex Matthews (no relation) www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3605...

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

So glad to see so many Wellington cafes doing well in this difficult climate. It goes to show that we want a range of cuisines and new places to go. Wellington is going through an important transition which reflects our community much more accurately. #nzpol www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3605...

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

This graph tho 🔥 #nzpol

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

This graph of water investment in Wellington over the past 20 years is very instructive. You can see for yourself which mayors were in power when water investment dropped or stagnated and how the current mayor and council have vastly increased water investment. The facts speak for themselves.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Claims the Council is not listening and changing direction defy reality. It only takes a brief look at the investment in water, the district plan, and our bus network to see we have listened, and we're delivering what people have asked for www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3605...

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

As schadenfreudelicious as it is to see Seymour & the govt bleeding political capital about this daily, what must we do to get this contract cancelled? This is actively harming our kids and their prospects.

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

A couple of parking spots lost, but so much more gained for the joy of alfresco dining.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Our new parklets have been a success and I’m so glad this is working for our hospitality sector. Now imagine this all the way down Courtenay Place. Wellington will thrive. www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3605...

submitted 6 days ago • 8 comments

The idea that the council hasn’t changed direction to deal with Wellington’s problems is clearly false. The decision to allow thousands more dwellings in the city and to massively invest in water infrastructure are two of the biggest changes in decades, they are not more of the same!

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

Tory Whanau is the first Wellington mayor in a generation to tackle head on the city’s twin crises of constrained housing supply and neglected water infrastructure and to do so by actually delivering a pro-housing district plan and a water investment programme capable of solving these problems. 1/

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Vision for Wellington's first event drew a large crowd, but their ideas for the future if the city mostly involved going back to the past. thespinoff.co.nz/society/21-0...

submitted 8 days ago • 9 comments

When we invest in public goods like public transport, public housing, education, health and, yes, proper school lunches, we get a healthy return on investment. This is often ignored when investments are framed simply as “costs”. We need to get better at communicating the value of such investments.

submitted 12 days ago • 6 comments

People like to compare deficit spending to “eating your seed corn” but that phrase applies much better to cutting investments that will have long term returns

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

Golden Mile physical works finally start in April! Along with the new Harbour Quays bus route and bus priority to the east, we will see major time savings from Miramar to Parliament - like 20 minutes or more each way. Crucially, that also means more frequent bus services for the same cost. So good!

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Our oceans are in a state of decline, continuing to put short-term profit before long-term sustainability will see the health of our ocean life wash away. We need to turn the tide on exploitative and extractive fishing practices that have seen our ocean environment’s health decline

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

Genuinely great news that NZ’s nationwide integrated public transport ticketing is finally going live this year! Think we are the first country to do a nationwide system like this. For Wellington - next year - it will also mean fare capping and free transfers between rail / bus within the same zone.

submitted 17 days ago • 10 comments

We know that having a car-centric city is not the future Wellington wants. Let's not put money into tunnels. Let's put money into accessible, reliable and sustainable public transport. It's better for our people and our planet.

submitted 19 days ago • 15 comments

Welcome to @egmanash.bsky.social who has joined us all here - hi mum 👋🏼

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

The unjustifiably redacted info here confirms what every sensible observer has warned about this project, that the plan to widen urban highways in Wellington will just funnel more cars into the central city, increasing congestion in Te Aro at peak times and making the streets worse for everyone. 1/

submitted 18 days ago • 4 comments

The great thing about transit is that you can build a lot of housing around existing rail stations, and all you need to do is adjust service to absorb more travel rather than constructing extensive new infrastructure. We need to make much better use of existing transit we have.

submitted 21 days ago • 5 comments

This is what can happen when you put people before profit - Māori initiative to build homes and provide finance for whānau living on collectively owned ancestral land theconversation.com/maori-commun...

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

This quality of life survey for 8 NZ cities gives useful insight into how we are doing on public transport. Wellington City is 1st for frequency of use, frequency of services, practicality, safety, accessibility and ease of getting around without a car; 2nd for reliability; 4th for affordability. 1/

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments