It is true that the Airport runway extension does not make sense. Therefore it is important that the information gets out to the wider community, rather than just to a bunch of local bloggers. This from Strathmore Park. For years now, Wellington International Airport and it’s pet monkey the WCC have been pushing for an airportContinueContinue reading “RE-BLOG Transporting Wellington: Airport runway extension does not stack up. Lester spits the dummy”
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OUR SUBMISSION TO THE WELLINGTON CITY COUNCIL’S ANNUAL PLAN
We have submitted the following to the WCC’s Annual Plan – as they were asking for ‘good ideas’ from the community of how to spend our money better. It may be largely lip-service, seeing the Council has gotten a lot of flak recently over their public ‘consultation’ (or lack thereof) processes, but we felt itContinueContinue reading “OUR SUBMISSION TO THE WELLINGTON CITY COUNCIL’S ANNUAL PLAN”
RE-BLOG Strathmore Park: Wellington Airport extension supporters suffering Polyannaism
For years now, Wellington International Airport and it’s pet monkey the Wellington City Council have been pushing for an airport extension. And for years now, it hasn’t stacked up. No small wonder when the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research (NZIER) and the Board of Airlines Representatives of New Zealand (BARNZ) slammed the business caseContinueContinue reading “RE-BLOG Strathmore Park: Wellington Airport extension supporters suffering Polyannaism”
REBLOG Strathmore Park Blog: Singapore Airlines just saved Wellington $90m
News this week that Singapore Airlines will be flying “direct” from Wellington to Singapore via Canberra single-handedly proving that we don’t need a $300m plus runway extension to access Asia and saving the ratepayers the $90m that was looking earmarked for the project. Rejoice Wellington. In a Powerpoint Presentation written by what appears to beContinueContinue reading “REBLOG Strathmore Park Blog: Singapore Airlines just saved Wellington $90m”
Singapore here we come! As long as it is subsidised…
Yesterday, the Capital’s worst-kept secret has been confirmed: Singapore Airlines is starting a 4-day a week service from Wellington to Singapore via Canberra. But there are some pretty serious questions yet to be answered about how this miracle came about. The new ‘capital express’ service will begin in September, with seats going on sale onContinueContinue reading “Singapore here we come! As long as it is subsidised…”
REBLOG Keith Johnson: The business case for (or should that be against?) the Wellington runway extension
DOWN TO EARTH WITH A BUMP Everyone is slowly getting back to normality after the Christmas Holidays here in the Antipodes. The holidays are taken very seriously [or should I say ‘unseriously’], resulting both in substantial brain-fade during their duration and the build up of a toxic aversion to a return work among most citizens.ContinueContinue reading “REBLOG Keith Johnson: The business case for (or should that be against?) the Wellington runway extension”
REBLOG Croaking Cassandra: Further thoughts on the Wellington Airport Part 2
In my first post today, I posed some questions around the plausibility of the assumed increase in international travel into and out of New Zealand if the proposed Wellington airport runway extension was to proceed. In this post, I want to focus mainly on how the consultants have calculated the net national benefits from theContinueContinue reading “REBLOG Croaking Cassandra: Further thoughts on the Wellington Airport Part 2”
REBLOG Croaking Cassandra: Further thoughts on the airport Part 1
Shortly after the release of the cost-benefit analysis of the proposed Wellington airport runway extension, prepared by Sapere for Wellington International Airport Limited (WIAL) I wrote a post in which I posed the question “If they build it, what if no one comes?” Since that post, I’ve been to one of the open day/public consultationContinueContinue reading “REBLOG Croaking Cassandra: Further thoughts on the airport Part 1”
REBLOG Strathmore Park: Knowing better than the locals
by Lindsay Shelton The Wellington Airport campaign to promote a longer runway is similar to the Transport Agency’s campaign about building a flyover at the Basin Reserve. Both commissioned large numbers of experts to support what they wanted to do. Both failed to connect with the communities who would be most affected. The Transport AgencyContinueContinue reading “REBLOG Strathmore Park: Knowing better than the locals”
REBLOG Keith Johnson: Why can’t WIAL pay for the proposed runway extension?
BBC AND BBBC I was sort of retained as an ‘economist’ by the Guardians of the Bays ginger group that has been formed to contest the Wellington Airport Runway Extension Project – with our tiger-lady organizer Dr Sea Rotmann setting me to tackle the Notorious Business Case that has been recently developed by the consultingContinueContinue reading “REBLOG Keith Johnson: Why can’t WIAL pay for the proposed runway extension?”
Guardians of the Bays 